Title :
Quantifying the environmental impacts of labor
Author :
Zhang, Teresa W. ; Dornfeld, David A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.2008.4562845
