Approach for Environmental Data: Thai National Life Cycle Inventory Development Framework

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used to evaluate the environmental impacts. However, life cycle inventory (LCI), it talks about inputs and outputs that across whole life cycle of product/process. LCI is the most vital stage for LCA, and also the environmental data in LCI can be used for other environmental assessment tools. This paper proposes the environmental data development framework, extracting from experiences and lessons learned from researchers who involved with Thai national LCI database. Interestingly, modification framework should be adopt to achieve the individual requirements, it would not be suggested that to completely follow the proposed framework. Hence, the structured environmental data is stored in the topology of LCI data architecture; it will be advantageous to apply to many environmental assessment tools. The data have been applied in various applications such as carbon footprint, environmental indicators, national emission inventories, and appliance standards.