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Enhanced Calculation Procedures for Material and Energy Flow Oriented EMIS
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2012
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Shaker Verlag
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The purpose of corporate environmental management information systems (EMIS) is to allow organizations dealing
with challenges in the fields of environmental protection and sustainable development. In particular, they should
support rational decision-making. In this regard they are special decision support systems. Instruments like life cycle
assessment (LCA) are provided to estimate the impacts of corporate decisions and activities on the global environment. Nowadays, life cycle assessment seems to be the one and only approach to implement material and energy
flow oriented environmental management information systems. Because of its history, the decision contexts of LCA
are mainly communication and justification. Other decision contexts are optimization of production processes, especially the reduction of waste (material loss) and the effects of marginal changes of the products and services. Conventional LCA does not really cover these questions. In the following contribution enhancements of LCA and material flow analysis (MFA) are presented, which help to overcome these gaps.