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A Proposed LCA Model of Environmental Effects With Markovian Decision Making
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As the pool of existing non-renewable natural resources continues to shrink, it will be necessary for government and industrial leaders to achieve a workable strategy for the intelligent allocation of scarce resources. In this paper, a method of quantifying the environmental and resource impacts of product redesign is proposed. This new method utilizes Input Output Analysis coupled with the Markovian decision making into a single matrix-based tool. The benefit of a fully developed tool would be the ability to make informed pre-production decisions leading to optimum product and process designs with minimal environmental impact. This paper illustrates this technique with an example based upon real industry data and extrapolated effects.
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Milacic, D., Gowaikar, H., Olson, W., and Sutherland, J., "A Proposed LCA Model of Environmental Effects With Markovian Decision Making," SAE Technical Paper 971174, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/971174.Also In
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