Enhanced Structure Path Analysis: A New Method to Create Spatiotemporally Defined Life Cycle Inventory

A spatiotemporally defined LCI is also needed to enhance the environmental impacts analysis and their optimization. Recent studies have shown that some environmental impact factors would require to be geodependently defined [3] and to be of use, the methodology requires a spatiotemporally defined LCI. Spatially defined LCI will also be useful to identify the sites of resources depletion and high pressures on certain environment created by abundant emissions. Temporally defined LCI will allow the identification of extractions/emissions which have already happened over the life cycle of the system at the time of the analysis. This information is necessary in order to identify future abatement potential of scenarios.