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Integration of life cycle assessment into agent-based modeling : Toward informed decisions on evolving infrastructure systems [1]

A method is presented that allows for a life cycle assessment (LCA) to provide environmental information on an energy infrastructure system while it evolves. Energy conversion facilities are represented in an agent-based model (ABM) as distinct instances of technologies with owners capable of making decisions based on economic and environmental information.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Chris Davis [2], Igor Nikoli? [3], Gerard P. J. Dijkema [4]
Journal of Industrial Ecology [5]
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Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [6], Carbon Tax [7], Climate Change [8], Biomass [9], Energy [10], Netherlands [11], Infrastructure Development [12]
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