Life Cycle Management

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This chapter gives an overview of Life Cycle Management (LCM)—a discipline that deals with the managerial tasks related to practicing sustainable development in an organisation. Just as Life Cycle Assessment, LCM advocates the life cycle perspective, and it applies this perspective in decision-making processes. The chapter shows that LCA can play a key role in LCM since LCA provides quantitative performance measurements. It also explains, which stakeholders need to be considered, how LCA and LCM relate, how LCA can be used to develop Key Performance Indicators, and addresses how LCM can be integrated into an organisation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management EngineeringTechnical University of DenmarkKongens LyngbyDenmark

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