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Table 19.1 Mainstreaming conditions criteria in selected rapidly growing and emerging countries
(a–d.3) and status of the market for LCA professionals (e)
Country
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d.1)
(d.2)
(d.3)
(e)
Training
activities
LCA
studies
LCA
database
LC
network Size
Gender
Market
for LCA
professionals
Latin America
Argentina
2
2
0
1
10–50
73 %
1
Brazil
3
2
1
1
50–100
31 %
1
Chile
2
1
1
1
10–50
38 %
1
Colombia
2
1
0
1
50–100
44 %
1
Peru
2
2
0
1
10–50
61 %
1
Mexico
2
2
2
1
100–250 37 %
1
South East Asia
China
3
2
2
1
1000
42 %
a
1
India
2
1
1
1
250–500 23 %
1
Indonesia
1
1
0
0/1
5–10
13 %
1
Malaysia
2
1
2
1
10–50
40 %
1
Philippines
0
1
0
0
0–3
nr
1
Thailand
3
3
2
1
100–250 56 %
1
Africa
South Africa
2
2
1
1
10–50
35 %
1
Egypt
1
1
0
0
5–10
13 %
0
Morocco
1
1
0
0
0–3
nr
0
Eastern Europe
Russian
Federation
b
0
1
0
0
0–3
nr
1
Turkey
2
2
1
0/1
5–10
24 %
1
West Asia
Saudi Arabia
b
0
0
0
0
0–3
nr
0
Total 18
nr not representative. No more than three persons have been identifi ed in that country; hence, the
result cannot be considered representative
a
Info estimated by Ping Hou, China
b
Only one response was received from this country; hence, the results cannot be considered valid
(e) A market for LCA professionals. In this case, an answer equal to 0 means there
is no market at all, 1 means that the market is still developing and 2 means that
the market is fully developed. The authors conclude that the existence of
training activities, LCA studies, LCA databases and life cycle networks are
conditions for mainstreaming.
Between 2013 and 2014, a global and a Latin American survey took place
(Sonnemann et al. 2015 ; Valdivia et al. 2014 ), which were the basis for the assessment (see results in Table 19.1 ). About 80 responses were received from the life
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