... Calendar and Organizational Effects 25
Budgeting for Modification Life- Cycle Patterns 26
Chapter Three
A BROADER PERSPECTIVE: LIFECYCLE PATTERNS,
NOT INEXORABLE GROWTH 27
Summary of This Chapter ... compo-
nents are replaced.
An engine’s service life between overhauls is shorter than an air-
craft’s design service life (e.g., 6,000 tactical cycles, or about 2,400
flying hours, versus 8,000 ... long-term age-related
growth from other life- cycle events that may obscure or exaggerate
measured workload growth. For example, during a platform’s early
life, “infantile” failures caused by design...
... life- cycle profile of income (Lawrance, 1995; Ludvigson,
1999; Athreya, 2002; Chatterjee et al., 2007; Livshits et al., 2007).
Our aim is to contribute to the above literature by proposing a life- cycle ... with respect to their life- time resources. Higher θ means that uncertain income
from labor is exchanged for certain income from pensions and thereby the variability
of the life- cycle income profile ... distribution in life- cycle economies. Journal of Monetary
Economics 38 (3), 469–494.
Iacoviello, M., 2005. House prices, borrowing constraints, and monetary policy in the
business cycle. American...
... conventional, environmental, and societal lifecyclecosting for an idealized w
ashing machine case
Type of life
cycle costing
Life cycle costs (€ per unit)
a
Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA; per ... Summary
Environmental LifeCycle Costing
Environmental lifecyclecosting (LCC) summarizes all costs associated with
the lifecycle of a product that are directly covered by 1 or more of the actors in
that life ... Perspectives (below).
1.3.2 LIFECYCLECOSTING PLANNING VERSUS LIFECYCLECOSTING ANALYSIS
The LCC process should also be differentiated with respect to when in the lifecycle
it is carried out...
... Modeling for LifeCycleCosting 27
Case Study Box 3: Perspectives
Starting from the complete lifecycle cost result for the idealized washing machine,
this case study box illustrates lifecycle costs ... 30 Environmental LifeCycle Costing
of lifecycle costing, several approaches for overcoming the “condentiality issue”
have been ... and upstream costs are related to the lifecycle of the
product: “upstream” means earlier in the life cycle, whereas “downstream” means
later in the life cycle, relative to some reference activity....
... Chemistry (SETAC)
Environmental LifeCycleCosting 47
Case Study Box 6: Calculation of LifeCycle Costs
This case study box demonstrates how the environmental lifecycle costs for the
idealized ... Societal LCC
Life cycle
stage
Cost
(€ per
unit)
Principal
impact
categories
Impact
(per
unit)
Life cycle
stage
Cost
(€ per
unit)
Principal
impact
categories
Impact
(per unit)
Life cycle
stage
Cost
(€ ... compared.
3.2.2 PRODUCT LIFECYCLE FROM ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
As explained in Chapter 1, the term lifecycle has to be seen analogously to the
physical lifecycle for a functional...
... listed in
Table 4.4 and lifecycle inventory underlying LCIA in Table 0.1.
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products is ... Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Integrating External Effects into LifeCycleCosting 67
Damage costs have been evaluated in the ExternE Project of the European Union
(Bickel and Friedrich 2005; EU ... costs of main emissions related to the lifecycle
of the idealized washing machine. The sum of these damage costs represents
the difference between the lifecycle costs calculated for the environmental...
... Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
77
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Life CycleCosting in
Life Cycle Management
Thomas Swarr and David Hunkeler
Summary
The integration of lifecyclecosting into existing management practices ... clearly independent concepts, can also serve as a basis to distinguish life
cycle costing from these concepts. Lifecyclecosting does not replace any other cost-
ing approach in business and ... This would,
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During conceptual design, the team assesses the strategic t of...
... static life cycle. These were set to a lifecycle duration of 0
years in Figure 6.5; the longest lifecycle spans 90 years (a building).**
* The SETAC-Europe Working Group on LifeCycleCosting ... (SETAC)
A Survey of Current LifeCycleCosting Studies 105
6.5.5.3 Duration of LifeCycle Considered and
Duration of Study by the Type of LCC
The duration of a life cycle, as considered in the ... do so), hence assuming a static, steady-state life
cycle. Conventional LCC studies do not assume a stationary life cycle; in addition,
the lifecycle duration typically is longer (Figure 6.17)....
...
7.1
7.2
7.3
Annual lifecycle costs
Environmental evaluation
(VCD)
Opel Corsa 1.0 Twinport Fiat Punto 1.2 8V Citroen C2 1.1
116 Environmental LifeCycle Costing
TABLE 7.2
Summary of lifecyclecosting ... that life
cycle costing, if based on the lifecycle inventory of an LCA, is an easy-to-apply and
efcient approach for assessing the economic dimension of sustainability. From a
life cycle ... Chemistry (SETAC)
LifeCycleCosting Case Studies 147
Analyzing the lifecycle costs, the main cost driver in all cases is the acquisi-
tion, comprising some 40% of the total lifecycle costs. The...
... THREE TYPES OF LIFECYCLE COSTING
A survey, carried out at the outset of the deliberations of the SETAC-Europe Working
Group on LifeCycle Costing, identied 3 types of lifecycle costing. The ... “societal LCC.”
This book is focused on and hence titled Environmental LifeCycleCosting as
this type of LCC presents a new lifecyclecosting methodology that is consistent
with LCA and suitable as ... Environmental LifeCycle Costing
In comparison to LCA, conventional LCC is easier to perform since data are
more readily available. They are less abstract because the calculated lifecycle costs...
... (Töpfer 2002). This initiative aims at a global promotion and use of lifecycle
thinking, lifecycle assessment (LCA), and lifecycle management (LCM).
Acting sustainability will require its quantication, ... potential impacts throughout a products lifecycle from
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be used publicly has become ... quality-adjusted life years (QALY) as a main measure of human
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Outlook
Role of Environmental
Life CycleCosting in
Sustainability...
... Journal of Life
Cycle Assessment, 6 (2), 118–120.
Norris, GA. 2006. Social impacts in product life cycles: towards lifecycle attribute assess-
ment. International Journal of LifeCycle Assessment, ... 2003. Lifecycle costing: paving the road to sustainable develop-
ment? International Journal of LifeCycle Assessment, 8 (2), 109–110.
Hunkeler, D, Rebitzer, G. 2005. The future of lifecycle ... Journal
of LifeCycle Assessment, 7 (4), 203–218.
Schmidt, W-P. 2003. Lifecyclecosting as part of design for environment: environmental
business cases. International Journal of LifeCycle Assessment,...
... health. Worldwide, life expectancy has risen
to an average of 65 years and death rates have declined, especially among young
children. In the wealthiest developed countries, average life expectancy ... developing countries, life expectancy
jumped from 40 to 64 years (Figure 1.2). In Brazil, for example, between 1940 and
1980 mortality declined from 18 per 1000 to 6 per 1000 persons, and life expectancy
at ... Introduction 196
13.4.2 Properties 196
13.4.3 Uses 197
13.4.4 Environmental Contamination 197
13.4.4.1 Wildlife Exposure 197
13.4.4.2 Human Exposure 198
13.4.5 PCB Degradation 199
13.4.6 Metabolism 199
13.4.7...
... advanced to explain the causes of
the observed increases. Major causes that were suggested include lifestyle, personal
habits, and diet. However, these hypotheses have overlooked the role of environ-
mental ... cadmium
(Cd). In addition to affecting human health directly, water pollution also threatens
aquatic life, particularly fish. For instance, in the early 1960s millions of fish in the
lower Mississippi ... increase
in the proportion of primary cancer of the liver.
11
2.3.2 Birth Defects
In a person’s life span, the period of greatest susceptibility to exogenous injury
is during the early stages...
... (OECD/NEA), 20 radionu-
clides were released into the atmosphere. They included iodine-131 with a half -life
of 8 days; cesium-134 and cesium-137 with half-lives of two and 30 years, respec-
tively; and ... sources. Decomposition of organic matter containing proteins derived
from vegetation and animal life could contribute to odors in the air.
Odors from cooking foods such as fish, meat, and poultry ... reflected in retarded growth, increased susceptibility to other
environmental stresses, and shorter life spans. In humans, a prolonged exposure to
air pollutants such as NO
2
and O
3
, may...