Doka LCA - Publications

LCA in general

• "LCA and Sustainability"
  Short essay on the issue of normalisation with sustainable targets, 2007. PDF


• "Is it always clear what 'good quality' is? - Value choices in quality management"
  Short presentation at the 23rd discussion forum LCA  , 2004. PDF slides

LCIA/Impact Assessment Methods

• Estimates of road, rail and airplane noise damages for Life Cycle Assessment
  Characterisation factors for traffic noise damages in LCA, 2009. PDF


• Correction of Eco-indicator'99 Normalisation values
  Documenting an error in energy normalisation values detected by Patrick Hofstetter, 2007. PDF


• Overview of other nation's versions of the BUWAL ecoscarcity method
  For BUWAL/BAFU, 2002. PDF


• "The Assessment of Environmental Impacts caused by Land Use in the Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products"
  Co-author, final Report of Working Group 2 "Land use" of COST Action E9  (Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products), 2002. PDF


• Complete Life Cycle Assessment for Vehicle Models of the Mobility CarSharing Fleet Switzerland
  With Sabine Ziegler. Includes a new assessment approach for land use, fragmentation, noise, and road accidents. For the 1st Swiss Transport Research Conference STRC  , 2001. Proceedings PDF


• Corrections to CML'01 method fluoride characterisation factors according to Huijbregts 2000
  2004. Excel-Sheet

Disposal processes

• "LCI of the disposal of lignite spoil, coal spoil and coal tailings"
  For the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Nov 2009. finalised draft report (2.3 MB PDF).


• Thailand LCI database waste incineration models
  Development of waste-specific calculation tools for municipal and cement kiln incineration for the National LCI database of Thailand.
  Co-author with Shabbir H. Gheewala, Chalita Liamsanguan, Pariyapat Nilsalab of the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok.


• "Non-radiological emissions from uranium tailings: A generic, global model for Life Cycle Inventory data"
  For the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, finalised draft report 2008. Report (6.6 MB PDF).
  See also newspaper article (in German) of 14th Dec 2008, Aargauer Zeitung Sonntag


• "Life Cycle Inventory data of mining waste: Emissions from sulfidic tailings disposal"
  For BAFU/FOEN, April 2008. PDF.


• "A Simple Model to Include Human Excretion and Wastewater Treatment in Life Cycle Assessment of Food Products "
  Co-author with Ivan Munoz, Llorenc Mila i Canals and Roland Clift, Centre for Environmental Strategy CES, Report 01/07, 2007. PDF


• "Ecological and economical optima of material recycling"
  With Patrick Hofstetter. For the 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Management 2007, Zurich. Proceedings and PDF slides (7.7 MB)


• "Assessing Long-term Effects of Municipal Solid Waste"
  For the 1st BOKU waste conference 2005 Vienna. proceedings (PDF) and slides (PDF)


• "Waste Treatment and Assessment of Long-Term Emissions"
  Paper on the ecoinvent waste disposal processes, with Roland Hischier
  Int. J. LCA, 10 LCA (1) 2005, p. 77-84. PDF or go to external webpage with free PDF 


• Ecoinvent landfill models
  Presentation at the 22nd discussion forum LCA  , 2004. PDF slides


• Ecoinvent waste treatment models
  Presentation at the 21st discussion forum LCA  , 2003. PDF slides


• Ecoinvent report: landfill models
  Excerpt of the ecoinvent report 13 (without inventories) 2003. PDF


• "Assessing the Eco-efficiency of End-of-Pipe Technologies with the Environmental Cost Efficiency Indicator"
  Published paper with Stefanie Hellweg and Goran Finnveden. Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 9 Issue 4, Pages 189 - 203, 2005.
  Final draft PDF. In part based on my PECK study below.


• LCA of a novel waste incineration technology (PECK)
  For ETH Zurich, Final Report, 2002. PDF


• "Subjective Valuation: the example of long-term emissions in the Life Cycle Assessment of waste disposal systems"
  Presentation at the R'02 conference, 2002. PDF slides, PDF proceedings


• Landfill integration in LCA - Status and Outlook
  Presentation for Working Group 3 "End of Life" of COST Action E9  (Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products), 1999.

Various systems

• Critical Review of Diploma Thesis on LCA of CO₂ Transport and Sequestration part of CCS
  Commissioned by Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, September 2007. Review (PDF 1.6MB) to this Diploma Thesis (PDF 5.1 MB) by Caroline Wildbolz


• "The Environmental Relevance of Capital Goods in Life Cycle Assessments of Products and Services"
  Co-author, published paper, International Journal of LCA, OnlineFirst: February 21th, 2007. PDF


• "Manufacturing and Disposal of Building Materials and Inventorying Infrastructure in ecoinvent "
  Co-author with Hans-Jörg Althaus, Daniel Kellenberger, and Tina Künniger
  published paper, International Journal of LCA, OnlineFirst: November 5th, 2004, p. 1-7. PDF paper


• "Life Cycle Assessment of ISO-protect polypropylene structured-core panel (PP) compared to oriented strand board (OSB) for building fence applications"
  For Composits AG,Zurich und Triplex GmbH, Germany. Confidential, 2008.


• "Yield losses in electronics production are significant to LCA"
  Comment in 13th discussion forum LCA  , 2001. Text and PDF slides


• "Ecological behavior and its environmental consequences: a life cycle assessment of a self-report measure"
  Co-author, published paper, Journal of Environmental Psychology 23 (2003) 11-20. PDF text and Excel appendix


• "Environmental Inventories for Future Electricity Supply Systems for Switzerland"
  Co-author, with Paul Scherrer Institute PSI  for the Swiss Association of Producers and Distributors of Electricity (VSE) 1996. PDF


• English Guide to the ETH-ESU LCI database
  for ETH Zurich, 1994. PDF (3.5 MB scan)

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