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• ISO 14046 Water footprint – Requirements and guidelines.
A detailed review of ISO standards in the context of ISO 14040 has been recently
published by Finkbeiner (Finkbeiner, 2013).
As many as 24 national standardisation organisations participated in the first
round of ISO standardisation talks and another 16 had the observer status. The
final vote led to an overall acceptance of 95%. LCA is therefore the only internationally
accepted standardised method for analysing environmental aspects and potential impacts
of product systems.
Chapters 2–5 focus on the objective content of individual phases of LCA, their
advantages and shortcomings.

1.5
Literature and Information on LCA

Until the mid-1990s, almost only ‘grey’ LCA literature was available. Meanwhile,
a series of books have been published. 73) Papers from national and international
organisations provide essential information to LCA, mostly SETAC and SETAC
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75)
Europe, The Nordic Council, US EPA (United States Environmental Protection
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Agency), UBA Berlin BUS/BUWAL Bern, the European Environment Agency
Copenhagen (EEA) 79) and the European Commission (EC). 80)
Recently, the Joint Research Centre ‘Institute for Environment and Sustainability’
of the EC (Ispra, Italy) published the ILCD Handbooks (International Reference Life
Cycle Data System), which can be downloaded for free (http://lct.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pdf-
directory/ILCDHandbook.pdf).
Since 1996, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment has been published
by ecomed publishers Landsberg/Lech and Heidelberg and, since the begin-
ning of 2008, by Springer, Heidelberg. Current information can be found at
http://www.springer.com/environment/journal/11367.
The journal has rapidly developed into a leading publication organ of the
promotion of LCA methodology. 81) International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is
also available electronically, and quite a number of articles as well as open access
papers can be downloaded free of charge.
Further journals with regular contributions to LCA are the Journal of Industrial
Ecology (MIT Press, part of Wiley-Blackwell since 2008), Cleaner Production (Elsevier)

73) Schmidt and Schorb (1995), Curran (1996), Eyrer (1996), Fullana and Puig (1997), Wenzel,
Hauschild and Alting (1997), Hauschild and Wenzel (1998), Badino and Baldo (1998), Guin´ ee
et al. (2002), Baumann and Tillman (2004), Kl¨ opffer and Grahl (2009) and Curran (2012).
74) Fava et al. (1991, 1993, 1994), SETAC (1993a), SETAC Europe (1992), Huppes and Schneider
(1994), Udo de Haes (1996) and Udo de Haes et al. (2002).
75) Lindfors et al. (1994a,b, 1995).
76) EPA (1993) and SAIC (2006).
77) (UBA (1992, 1997), Kl¨ opffer and Renner (1995) and Schmitz and Paulini (1999).
78) BUS (1984), BUWAL (1990, 1991, 1996, 1998).
79) Jensen et al. (1997).
80) EC (2010).
81) Heinrich (2013).