NDLI: Trends in the lifespan evolution of personal computers and implications for life cycle assessment studies: A case study of the U.S. higher education sector

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Babbitt, C.W. Kahhat, R. Williams, E.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287 USA (Babbitt, C.W.) \|\| Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287 USA (Williams, E.) \|\| Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287 USA (Kahhat, R.)
Abstract	WHEN considering environmental impacts associated with the upstream and downstream processes in electronic product life cycles, product lifespan is obviously a fundamental variable of interest. Not only does lifespan dictate the manufacturing energy and impacts created due to product replacement, but also the quality and operational characteristics of obsolete equipment requiring end-of-life (EOL) management. Furthermore, technological progress and the evolution of product lifespan are expected to induce changes in the environmental characteristics of manufacturing processes, performance characteristics of products, and in how consumers purchase, use and dispose of products. Nevertheless, existing studies and life cycle assessments (LCAs) of electronic products, almost without exception, consider lifespan to be constant over time. Although this oversimplifying assumption is often required by the scarcity of publicly available and temporally variable data, it also represents a fundamental methodological challenge inherent to LCAs and other approaches used to inform environmental management and policy decisions.
Starting Page	1
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File Size	68154
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File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424443246
DOI	10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156725
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-05-18
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Microcomputers Computer science education Educational institutions Distributed computing Character generation Electronic waste Waste management Personal communication networks Asset management Data mining
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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