Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Strategic Risk Management

LCA as standardized methodology offers information which is very helpful besides the environmental analysis. The strategic management system in companies needs enormous amounts of different types of information to realize corporate risks and chances in very early stages. The following approach combines the approved methodology of LCA, which mostly is used as an operative tool, with strategic economic models from the market perspective. This leads to an interdisciplinary model for strategic risk management which is a completely new field of application for LCA and an also new, efficient way of generation and structure of information.