IMPACT 2002+: A new life cycle impact assessment methodology (original) (raw)

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2003, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

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results in so-called midpoint categories, according to themes. Themes are common mechanisms (e.g. climate change) or commonly accepted grouping (e.g. ecotoxicity). b) Damage oriented methods such as Eco-indicator 99 (Goedkoop and Spriensma 2000) or EPS (Steen 1999), which try to model the cause-effect chain up to the endpoint, or damage, sometimes with high uncertainties.