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Acknowledgments
The LCA Compendium Book Series complements The International Journal of Life
Cycle Assessment , which has been published by Springer since 2008. This is the
volume on Life Cycle Management of the LCA Compendium . We fi rst acknowledge
and appreciate that Springer accepted to publish a volume on Life Cycle Management
(LCM) jointly with LCM 2015, the 7th International Conference on Life Cycle
Management, in Bordeaux, 30 August–2 September 2015. In particular we thank
Fritz Schmuhl (Environmental Sciences) for recognizing the window of opportunity
to publish such a comprehensive volume thanks to the momentum generated by the
LCM 2015 Conference.
Second, we would like to thank Walter Kloepffer and Mary Ann Curran, the
series editors of the LCA Compendium , for their support in making the idea of publishing the volume jointly with the LCM 2015 Conference coming up. Without their
experience as editors of journal articles, it would have been diffi cult to get this collection of chapters reviewed and edited in the short time frame we had available
between the fi rst submission of the draft chapters to us and the fi nal submission to
Springer.
Our third thank you is to Almut B. Heinrich, the former managing editor of The
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment , who is acting as the managing editor for this book series and backed us throughout the process.
Fourth, we would like to thank our numerous chapter authors and coauthors who
did not know if their chapter would be accepted or not. Without their willingness to
cooperate on this volume, devotion of time, and sharing of expertise and experience,
it would not have been possible to produce this book. In this context, our special
thanks go to the authors from the industry and business who provided fi rst hand
insight on how LCM is implemented.
A special thank you goes also to Eskinder Gemechu, a postdoc at the Life Cycle
Group CyVi of the University of Bordeaux, who helped to manage the status and to
edit the chapters.
Acknowledgments
The LCA Compendium Book Series complements The International Journal of Life
Cycle Assessment , which has been published by Springer since 2008. This is the
volume on Life Cycle Management of the LCA Compendium . We fi rst acknowledge
and appreciate that Springer accepted to publish a volume on Life Cycle Management
(LCM) jointly with LCM 2015, the 7th International Conference on Life Cycle
Management, in Bordeaux, 30 August–2 September 2015. In particular we thank
Fritz Schmuhl (Environmental Sciences) for recognizing the window of opportunity
to publish such a comprehensive volume thanks to the momentum generated by the
LCM 2015 Conference.
Second, we would like to thank Walter Kloepffer and Mary Ann Curran, the
series editors of the LCA Compendium , for their support in making the idea of publishing the volume jointly with the LCM 2015 Conference coming up. Without their
experience as editors of journal articles, it would have been diffi cult to get this collection of chapters reviewed and edited in the short time frame we had available
between the fi rst submission of the draft chapters to us and the fi nal submission to
Springer.
Our third thank you is to Almut B. Heinrich, the former managing editor of The
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment , who is acting as the managing editor for this book series and backed us throughout the process.
Fourth, we would like to thank our numerous chapter authors and coauthors who
did not know if their chapter would be accepted or not. Without their willingness to
cooperate on this volume, devotion of time, and sharing of expertise and experience,
it would not have been possible to produce this book. In this context, our special
thanks go to the authors from the industry and business who provided fi rst hand
insight on how LCM is implemented.
A special thank you goes also to Eskinder Gemechu, a postdoc at the Life Cycle
Group CyVi of the University of Bordeaux, who helped to manage the status and to
edit the chapters.