Foreground and Background Data
Foreground data describe the processes a study is directly about and can measure -- the energy meter and chemical dosing records of a specific treatment plant. Background data describe generic…
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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Functional Unit (FU)
The quantified function a system delivers, used as the reference to which every input, output and impact is related -- for example the production of 1 m³ of reclaimed 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).
