1. Can you imagine the LCA world without our journal?

   Editorial: To the LCA Community Pages: 183 - 183

2. Announcement of a special issue: LCA in Japan

   Announcement Pages: 183 - 183

3. How to improve adoption of LCA

   • Garrette Clark
   • Bas de Leeuw

   Commentaries Pages: 184 - 187

4. The application of an life cycle inventory (LCI) model for solid waste disposal systems in malaysia

   • Mohd Nasir Hassan
   • Muhamad Awang
   • Hukil Sino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 188 - 190

5. Current status and needs for life cycle assessment development in Asian/Pacific Regions

   • Zulina Zakaria
   • Mohd Nasir Hassan
   • Muhamad Awang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 194

6. The Progress of the Impact Assessment Study Committee in the National LCA Project of Japan

   • Norihiro Itsubo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 194 - 194

7. Life Cycle Management of Municipal Solid Waste

   • Keith Weitz
   • Morton Barlaz
   • Robert Ham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 201

8. Influence of derived operation-specific tractor emission data on results from an LCI on wheat production

   • Per-Anders Hansson
   • Berit Mattsson

   LCA Case Studies Pages: 202 - 206

9. Life cycle inventories for the production of sodium silicates

   • Matthias Fawer
   • Martin Concannon
   • Wolfram Rieber

   LCA Case Studies Pages: 207 - 212

10. Life cycle inventories for the production of detergent ingredients

    • Silvio Dall’Acqua
    • Matthias Fawer
    • Caroline Allenspach

    News Pages: 212 - 212

11. A framework for actualising normalisation data in LCA: Experiences in the Netherlands

    • Leo Breedveld
    • Marije Lafleur
    • Hans Blonk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 220

12. Evaluation of life cycle impacts: Identification of societal weights of environmental issues

    • Shirish Sangle
    • P. Ram Babu
    • P. Khanna

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 228

13. Institutions: The LCA-society of Italy

    • Gian Luca Baldo
    • Antonio Giacomucci

    OriginalPaper Pages: 228 - 228

14. Estimates of real damage from air pollution: Site dependence and simple impact indices for LCA

    • Joseph V. Spadaro
    • Ari Rabl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 243

15. Ecological assessment of products, companies and sectors

    • Francois Schneider

    Conference Reports Pages: 244 - 244