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LCA Glossary

Comprehensive glossary of Life Cycle Assessment terms and concepts. Browse by letter, category, or search for specific terms.

3 terms found

Acidification

Impact Categories

Impact category measuring the potential to cause acidification of soils and water, typically measured in SO2 equivalents.

Allocation

Methodology

Partitioning the input or output flows of a process or a product system between the product system under study and one or more other product systems.

Attributional LCA

Methodology

An approach to LCA that describes the environmentally relevant physical flows to and from a life cycle and its subsystems.

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