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Guidance for Improving Life-Cycle Design and Management of Milk Packaging
(MIT PressBlackwell Publishing Ltd, 1999-01)
Life-cycle inventory and cost-analysis tools applied to milk packaging offer guidelines for achieving better environmental design and management of these systems. Life-cycle solid waste, energy, and costs were analyzed for ...
Global Lithium Availability
(Blackwell Publishing IncWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-10)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Payback for Lightweighted Vehicles Using Aluminum and High-Strength Steel
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2010-12)
In this article we consider interactions between life cycle emissions and materials flows associated with lightweighting (LW) automobiles. Both aluminum and high-strength steel (HSS) lightweighting are considered, with LW ...
Life-Cycle Energy, Costs, and Strategies for Improving a Single-Family House
(MIT PressBlackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-04)
The life-cycle energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs of a contemporary 2,450 sq ft (228 m 3 ) U.S. residential home (the standard home, or SH) were evaluated to study opportunities for conserving energy throughout ...
Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous United States
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-01)
Urban areas are home to more than half of the world's people, responsible for >70% of anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide and 76% of wood used for industrial purposes. By 2050 the proportion of the urban population is ...
Dynamic Modeling of In-Use Cement Stocks in the United States
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-08)
A dynamic substance-flow model is developed to characterize the stocks and flows of cement utilized during the 20th century in the United States, using the generic cement life cycle as a systems boundary. The motivation ...
Consequential Life Cycle Assessment With Market‐Driven Design
(Blackwell Publishing IncWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-10)
Response to Comment on “Using Nested Average Electricity Allocation Protocols …”
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.U.S. Geological Survey, 2016-08)
Is Environmental Improvement in Automotive Component Design Highly Constrained?
(MIT PressBlackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998-04)
This article investigates the influence of environmental, cost, and performance requirements on the design and management of automotive components through a case study involving instrument panels. To address the question ...