Data Quality
How fit the data used in a study are for its goal, judged on criteria such as time, geographical and technological representativeness, precision, completeness and consistency. Inconsistent data quality is…
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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Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
A measure of health damage that adds up years of life lost to premature death and years lived with illness or disability, weighted by severity. LCIA methods use it as…
Discounting
Converting future costs and revenues into their present value, reflecting that money spent or earned later is worth less than money today. The discount rate chosen can decide whether a…
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).
