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and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, IEAM (SETAC Press).
Increasingly, Environmental Science and Technology (ACS) also publishes LCA-
related papers. However, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is the only
journal entirely devoted to LCA.
Other specialised journals also publish LCA literature. In 1995, for instance, the
comprehensive ECOSOL – Surfactants-LCI of the European surfactants producers,
conducted by Franklin Associates, published two issues of the journal Tenside,
Surfactants and Detergents. 82)
A detailed treatment of all aspects of LCA and related methods such as Social
Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA), Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) and
LCM is being published in the LCA compendium (Springer 2014ff). This work is
83)
conceived for 10 base volumes, and subvolumes as needed.
The significance of publication for propagation and discussion of methods,
theories and results of research cannot be overestimated. Especially within new
branches of science, peer reviews judge scientific validity on a day-to-day basis. 84)
They serve as fine adjustments for the great principles of epistemology with
special focus, according to Popper, on falsifiability, 85) which cannot be examined
unambiguously for LCA. The scientific character of LCA is discussed critically in
the following chapters dealing with the phases of LCA.

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