Normalisation

A separate project has been carried out to develop Normalisation factors for the ReCiPe impact assessment method. The results have been published as an article in Science of the Total Environment (see reference below).

The PDF files at the bottom of this page contain the same content as the article. We will soon add a spreadsheet specifying how these data have been interpreted, and how the resource depletion category was added.

The factors presented are not in personal equivalents, but as totals for the region.

Reference:

Wegener Sleeswijk, A (1,2), Van Oers, LFCM (3), Guinée, JB (3), Struijs, J (4), Huijbregts, MAJ (2). Normalisation in product life cycle assessment: An LCA of the global and European economic systems in the year 2000. Science of the Total Environment, 2008, 390 (1): 227-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.09.040

1. GLOBRIGHT, Reitzstraat 7, 2332 XV Leiden, The Netherlands
2. Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Science, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3. Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
4. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment – Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment (RIVM-LER), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands