| Author: | Sven Lundie |
| Title: | Life Cycle Assessment and Decision Making Theory - Practice-oriented
Product Assessment on the Basis of Societal Values |
| Institution: | Universität Lüneburg, Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaftslehre |
| Date: | November 1997 |
| Advisor: | Prof Dr Egbert Kahle, Prof Dr Ursula Weisenfeld-Schenk |
| Key Words: | Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Decision Making Theory, Decision Making Models, participation of stakeholders, case study |
| How to Obtain: | The dissertation was published in Springer Verlag: Lundie, Sven: Ökobilanzierung und Entscheidungstheorie: Praxisorientierte Produktbewertung auf der Basis gesellschaftlicher Werthaltungen / Sven Lundie. - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; ISBN 3-540-65042-3 |
| Abstract: | Sven Lundie focussed his PhD on the participation of stakeholders in
LCA and the practice-oriented evaluation of impact assessment results in
order to deduce reliable environmental recommendations. The starting point
of his thesis was an LCA on television sets, led by the Institute for Futures
Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin. This research project
was carried out in close cooperation with industry, the Federal Environmental
Agency, ecological consultancies as well as a consumer organisation. The
collaboration, on the one hand, clarified the importance of an intensive
information exchange with stakeholders and, on the other hand, it showed
the problems of merging interests from different stakeholder groups. Hence,
in the thesis, he combined LCA methodology with general decision-making
theory and incorporated a stakeholder approach as well as decision making
methods. An 'ideal model of participation' in LCA was developed that allows
the choice of relevant stakeholder groups depending on the case considered.
In his project he set up a method to evaluate the outcome of LCA studies without requiring explicit value statements. This procedure leads to results in most cases and avoids often fruitless discussions about the relative importance of different environmental problem areas. |