Preface
Life Cycle Management (LCM) can be considered an integrated concept and toolbox
of methods and operational approaches aimed at improving the environmental,
social and economic sustainability of technologies, products, services, policies and
organizations from a life cycle perspective. Businesses and policy-making organizations use LCM frameworks to explicitly identify, document, inform and communicate their strategy and to chart a course from this strategy towards a more
sustainable society.
The LCM conference series is the leading Life Cycle Assessment forum
worldwide, bringing together 700+ LCM scholars and practitioners from 40+
countries working in industry, academia and public institutions. LCM 2017 has
been the 8th time this conference has taken place, following the inaugural conference in 2001 in Copenhagen, and highly successful events in Barcelona (2005),
Zurich (2007), Cape Town (2009), Berlin (2011), Gothenburg (2013) and Bordeaux
(2015).
LCM 2017 was held from the 3 to 6 September 2017 at the European
Convention Centre Luxembourg (ECCL) and was organized by the Luxembourg
Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), in collaboration with the University of
Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal. LCM 2017 attracted 730 international scientists
and practitioners of Life Cycle Management from 46 countries. Top-tier international companies, along with senior representatives of European institutions and
national governments, took part in the event, which featured a series of star
speakers and visionary leaders of the field, such as Bertrand Piccard and Mathis
Wackernagel. Delegates also had the opportunity to meet with His Royal Highness
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg who, accompanied by his son, His Royal
Highness Prince Louis, spontaneously took part in the closing session of the
conference.
LCM 2017 was thus an opportunity for the whole community of researchers who
believe in the effectiveness of LCM to gather together, but it was more than that.
With the rise of the Circular Economy as a new paradigm for market growth,
several methods and certification schemes to quantify and communicate the impacts
and benefits of circular systems have emerged. The LCM toolbox can indeed
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Life Cycle Management (LCM) can be considered an integrated concept and toolbox
of methods and operational approaches aimed at improving the environmental,
social and economic sustainability of technologies, products, services, policies and
organizations from a life cycle perspective. Businesses and policy-making organizations use LCM frameworks to explicitly identify, document, inform and communicate their strategy and to chart a course from this strategy towards a more
sustainable society.
The LCM conference series is the leading Life Cycle Assessment forum
worldwide, bringing together 700+ LCM scholars and practitioners from 40+
countries working in industry, academia and public institutions. LCM 2017 has
been the 8th time this conference has taken place, following the inaugural conference in 2001 in Copenhagen, and highly successful events in Barcelona (2005),
Zurich (2007), Cape Town (2009), Berlin (2011), Gothenburg (2013) and Bordeaux
(2015).
LCM 2017 was held from the 3 to 6 September 2017 at the European
Convention Centre Luxembourg (ECCL) and was organized by the Luxembourg
Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), in collaboration with the University of
Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal. LCM 2017 attracted 730 international scientists
and practitioners of Life Cycle Management from 46 countries. Top-tier international companies, along with senior representatives of European institutions and
national governments, took part in the event, which featured a series of star
speakers and visionary leaders of the field, such as Bertrand Piccard and Mathis
Wackernagel. Delegates also had the opportunity to meet with His Royal Highness
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg who, accompanied by his son, His Royal
Highness Prince Louis, spontaneously took part in the closing session of the
conference.
LCM 2017 was thus an opportunity for the whole community of researchers who
believe in the effectiveness of LCM to gather together, but it was more than that.
With the rise of the Circular Economy as a new paradigm for market growth,
several methods and certification schemes to quantify and communicate the impacts
and benefits of circular systems have emerged. The LCM toolbox can indeed
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