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to academic lecturing as well as private studies and be of use in industry and
governmental organisations.
We owe great thanks to Andreas Detzel (IFEU), who not only provided the
example study but also carefully read and commented on the whole manuscript
of the German version. Martina Kr¨ uger (IFEU) was a great help in adapting
the example study to the didactic presentation needed in a textbook. Many of
our friends in the LCA community contributed to the development of LCA and
thus, finally, also to this book. To mention only few of them, Harald Neitzel
(then at Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Berlin), the unforgettable chairman of DIN
NAGUS in the 1990s; Isa Renner, main LCA practitioner at Battelle Frankfurt,
later at C.A.U. Ltd. Dreieich; and Eva Schmincke, longstanding discussion partner,
centrally involved in the development of environmental product declarations (EPDs)
according to the ISO Type III declaration system. At the international level, the
LCA-related activities of SETAC and the UNEP (United Nations Environmental
Programme)/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative were of great help.
Almut B. Heinrich, the managing editor of the book series ‘LCA Compendium –
The whole world of Life Cycle Assessment’ helped us with the translation of the
German book doing final corrections in all chapters. She was managing editor
of The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment from 1996 to 2009 and
contributed in that position to the proliferation of LCA world-wide. 3)
Last, but not least, we thank the editorial managers at Wiley-VCH for their
patience and competence during the creation of this book.

Frankfurt am Main und L¨ ubeck Walter Kl¨opffer and Birgit Grahl
October 2013

References
Baumann, H. and Tillman, A.-M. (2004) The und Beruf , Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH,
Hitch Hiker’s Guide to LCA. An Orientation Weinheim. ISBN: 978-3-527-32043-1.
in Life Cycle Assessment Methodology and Kl¨ opffer, W. and Curran, M.A. (2014) LCA
Application, Studentlitteratur, Lund. ISBN: Compendium – The Whole World of Life
91-44-02364-2. Cycle Assessment, Springer, Dordrecht.
Kl¨ opffer, W. and Grahl, B. (2009) ¨ Okobilanz
(LCA) – Ein Leitfaden f¨ur Ausbildung

3) Kl¨ opffer and Curran 2014.