Key to the questions
The Working Group on Conceptually Related Programmes, set up by SETAC (the Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry), has presented a framework for describing
relationships between LCA and other environmental management concepts and tools (SETAC,
1997). This framework has been developed by Baumann and Cowell (1998). In this paper,
questions for description of the tools are based on aspects considered in the framework used
in these two publications. LCA is the working field of the writers of both these publications
and terminology and aspects may thereby in parts be LCA-oriented.
The questions have been adapted for this study and are formulated with the intention to help
in giving a picture of the scope of the tool as well as the potential situations where it can be
used. All the described methods are assumed to be of analytical nature and to be tools rather
than concepts. The questions used are presented below, with some explanations.