Evaluating and ranking secondary data sources to be used in the Brazilian LCA database – “SICV Brasil”

The generation of reliable life cycle inventories is essential towards Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) development, and the use of literature inventories as data sources can serve as a driving force for emerging LCA databases. The aim of this paper was to propose a method to select and rank scientific publications to be used as possible data sources for supplying LCA databases with new datasets. A case study was designed to identify eligible...