Acidification
The build-up of acidity in soils, lakes and forests caused mainly by sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and ammonia, which return to the ground in rain or as deposits. It harms…
Glossary Terms
Working definitions for the terms that recur across this project: the circular economy, water resource recovery and reuse, and the life cycle methods -- LCA, LCC and S-LCA -- that AWARE combines into one sustainability assessment. They are written for a general reader rather than for specialists.
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Attributional and Consequential Modelling
Two ways of building a life cycle model, suited to different questions. An attributional model describes the share of the world's impacts that belongs to a product, using average data.…
AWARE Water Scarcity Method (WULCA)
Not this project: an established LCA characterisation method called AWARE, short for Available WAter REmaining, developed by the WULCA working group of the UNEP Life Cycle Initiative. It weights water…
Definitions are written for this site in plain language. The selection of terms was checked against the Life Cycle Initiative terminology (UNEP), the ILCA Common Glossary and the SimaPro LCA glossary, and against ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14046, ISO 14075 and the UNEP Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment (2020).
