LT: Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment in the Service Industries

9873582 Lave本研究的目的是对选定的服务行业的环境影响制定量化措施：卡车运输和快递服务、批发和零售贸易、酒店和其他住宿场所以及教育服务。现有的经济投入产出生命周期评价（EIO-LCA）方法将用于确定和量化这些工业在其产品和服务的整个生命周期中对环境的影响，以及确定和量化这些工业的直接和间接的经济、环境和可持续性影响。将评估与服务经济有关的材料和能源投入（不可再生和可再生资源）以及排放和废物（有毒排放、产生危险废物、标准污染物排放、温室气体排放和消耗臭氧的化学物质排放）。将评价改善服务部门产出环境的机会，目的是提供有助于界定服务部门工业生态的指标和分析工具。这项资助是根据美国国家科学基金会/朗讯科技公司1998年工业生态研究奖学金计划提供的

9873582 Lave The objective of this research is to develop quantitative measures of the environmental impacts of selected service sector industries: trucking and courier services, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and other lodging places and educational services. The existing economic input-output life-cycle assessment (EIO-LCA) approach will be employed to identify and quantify the environmental implications of these industries throughout the lifetime of their products and services, as well as to identify and quantify the direct and indirect economic, environmental and sustainablility implications of these industries. The material and energy inputs (nonrenewable and renewable resources) will be assessed, as well as the emissions and waste (toxic discharges, hazardous waste generation, criteria pollutant emissions, greenhouse gas discharges and ozone-depleting chemical releases) associated with the service economy. Opportunities for environmental improvements of service sector outputs will be evaluated with the objective of providing metrics and analysis tools that can help define industrial ecology in the service sectors. This grant is made pursuant to the joint NSF/Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology Research Fellowships Program 1998.***