• DocumentCode
    2112538
  • Title

    Quantifying the environmental impacts of labor

  • Author

    Zhang, Teresa W. ; Dornfeld, David A.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    19-22 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    Quantitative values for the environmental impacts of labor are needed to improve the accuracy and expand the decision making capabilities of life cycle analysis. We present a method of calculating the environmental impacts of a worker-hour, finding one worker-hour of industrial labor in the U.S. corresponding to 58 MJ of primary energy use, 82 gallons of water use, and 4.6 kg of CO2 equivalent emissions.
  • Keywords
    environmental factors; labour resources; environmental impact; industrial labor; life cycle analysis; worker-hour; Decision making; Environmental economics; Etching; Global warming; Industrial economics; Manufacturing; Medical services; Power generation economics; Production systems; State estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics and the Environment, 2008. ISEE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2272-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2298-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISEE.2008.4562845
  • Filename
    4562845
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2112538