The study of politics and the life cycle began with a rather single-minded focus on childhood and the family-on the idea, as Tocqueville famously put it, that the entire person could be ``seen in the cradle of the child.'' Politics does begin in childhood, and parents do influence their...
Purpose Life cycle assessment (LCA) has established itself as part of the sustainability toolkit of the private sector, informing environmental decision-making and improving environmental performance. However, we know less about its use in the public sector. To what extent and how do governments ...
June 2024 Donald Trump hit for the cycle. For those unfamiliar with baseball terminology, hitting for the cycle means hitting a home run, triple, double, and single in a single game. Trump achieved the metaphorical equivalent in a recent interview. In the midst of debate week, Trump’s appe...
In most of the studies on LCA method, construction phase is widely considered and biomass decay has been considered by non-life cycle studies. Limited studies have been carried regarding the combined effect of construction, operation, and decommission phase (Pacca and Horvath, 2002). The study of...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is set to sign a law today mandating that a broad swath of industries essentially eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The new standards, the most aggressive in the nation, will go into effect in 2023. ...
This study examines the effect of children on family consumption decisions during different stages of the life cycle. An empirical model that incorporates both continuous measures of adult equivalence and a flexible functional form is us... RA Douthitt,JM Fedyk - 《Journal of Consumer Affairs》 被...
I have seen the Grand Canyon of Arizona, and I am still smarting from its effect on my perception of reality. Its grandeur reminded me of a paradox, the paradox of what I would call “chance and permanence”: nature works mostly by chance, but what it has wrought so far is almost pe...
I know you know the truth. We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle. Not my channel, by the way. We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger back...
all but guaranteeing that any attempt to effect change is doomed and any claim to real change is little more than a shell game with a better name. Yet politics is what passes for governing in the minds of the elected and the electorate alike. Politics is not what defines us; it is what...
Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) is the third assessment dimension and seeks to measure the impact of a product or process on society along the full life cycle. SLCA is similar to LCA in that it follows the LCA four-step procedure (ISO, 2006a) providing complementary impact information (...