publications

life cycle impact assessment

case studies

Frischknecht R., Wyss F. , Büsser S. , Lützkendorf T., Balouktsi M. (2015) Cumulative energy demand in LCA: the energy harvested approach, Int J LCA, DOI 10.1007/s11367-015-0897-4 

 

Frischknecht R. and Büsser S. (2013) Overview and main elements of the update of ecological scarcity 2013 and its implication, treeze Ltd., presentation at 54th discussion forum on the method of ecological scarcity, December 2013, Berne, Switzerland.

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Büsser S. and Frischknecht R. (2013) New approaches in ecological scarcity 2013: global land use, abiotic resources and noise, treeze Ltd., presentation at 54th discussion forum on the method of ecological scarcity, December 2013, Berne, Switzerland. 

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Frischknecht, R., Itten R. and Büsser Knöpfel S. (2013) Tracking important Environmental Impacts Related to Domestic Consumption - A Feasibility Study on Environmental Life Cycle Indicators for Land Use/Biodiversity, Air Pollution, Nitrogen, Water Use, and the Use of Materials, treeze Ltd.: Uster, Switzerland, commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Bern, Switzerland.

 

Kounina A., Margni M., Bayart J.-B., Boulay A.-M., Berger M., Bulle C., Frischknecht R., Koehler A., Milà i Canals L., Motoshita M., Núñez M., Peters G., Pfister S., Ridoutt B., van Zelm R., Verones F. and Humbert S. (2012) Review of methods addressing freshwater use in life cycle inventory and impact assessment. In: Int J LCA, DOI 10.1007/s11367-012-0519-3

 

Büsser S., Frischknecht R., Kiyotada H. and Kono J. (2012) Ecological Scarcity Japan. Uster.

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Flury K., Jungbluth N., Frischknecht R. and Muñoz I. (2012) Recommendation for Life Cycle Inventory Analysis for Water Use and Consumption, Uster

 

Flury K., Jungbluth N., Frischknecht R. (2011) Water Footprint: Methods, State of the Art, Outlook. Presentation for cewas, Willisau, 22. September 2011

 

Frischknecht R., Jungbluth N. and Pfister S. (2009) UBP-Bewertung für den Wasserbedarf von Treibstoffen. Uster, im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Umwelt (BAFU), Bern, CH.

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Frischknecht, R., Steiner, R., Jungbluth, N. (2008) Methode der ökologischen Knappheit - Ökofaktoren 2006. Öbu SR No. 28/2008, Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), ÖBU Schweizerische Vereinigung für ökologisch bewusste Unternehmungsführung, Zürich und Bern.

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Frischknecht R., Steiner R., Braunschweig A., Egli N. and Hildesheimer G. (2008) Swiss Ecological Scarcity Method: The New Version 2006.

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Frischknecht R., Althaus H.-J., Dones R., Hischier R., Jungbluth N., Nemecek T., Primas A. and Wernet G. (2007) Renewable Energy Assessment within the Cumulative Energy Demand Concept: Challenges and Solutions. In proceedings from: SETAC Europe 14th LCA case study symposium: Energy in LCA - LCA of Energy, 3-4 December 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden

 

Boesch M. E., Hellweg S., Huijbregts M. A. J. and Frischknecht R. (2007) Applying Cumulative Exergy Demand (CExD) Indicators to the ecoinvent Database. In: Int J LCA, 12(3), pp. 181-190.

International Journal of LCA

Frischknecht, R., Jungbluth, N., Althaus, H.-J., Doka, G., Dones, R., Hellweg, S., Hischier, R., Humbert, S., Margni, M., Nemecek, T., Spielmann, M. (2007) Implementation of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods. CD-ROM No. Final report ecoinvent v2.0 No. 3, Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, Dübendorf, CH.

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Huijbregts M. A. J., Hellweg S., Frischknecht R., Hungerbühler K. and Hendriks A. J. (2006) Ecological Footprint Accounting in the Life Cycle Assessment of Products. In: accepted for publication in Ecological Economics, pp., retrieved from: doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.04.017

Ecological Economics

Huijbregts, M. A. J., Rombouts, L. J. A., Hellweg, S., Frischknecht, R., Hendriks, A. J., van de Meent, D., Ragas, A. M. J., Reijnders, L., Struijs, J. (2005) “Is Cumulative Fossil Energy Demand a Useful Indicator for the Environmental Performance of Products?,.” In Environ. Sci. Technol. Vol. 40 (3): 641-648.

Environ. Sci. Technol.

Hellweg S. & Frischknecht R. (2004) Evaluation of Long-Term Impacts in LCA." In int J LCA Vol. 9 (5): 339-341

International Journal of LCA

Jungbluth, N. & Frischknecht, R. (2000) Eco-indicator 99 - Implementation: Assignment of Damage Factors to the Swiss LCI database "Ökoinventare von Energiesystemen" Uster.

 

Frischknecht R., A. Braunschweig,P. Suter, P. Hofstetter, (2000) Human health damages due to ionising radiation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment, paper accepted for publication in Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 20, No.2

EIAR

Frischknecht R., R. Heijungs, P. Hofstetter, (1998) Einstein's lesson on energy accounting in LCA, in Int. J. LCA (3) No. 5, p. 266-272

International Journal of LCA