Abstract

AbstractThe main goal of this paper is to present the history and actual situation in research on LCA and LCM in Poland. This task will be performed by reviewing the different activities and their results in this field, from the very beginning. The paper includes the review of the activities of LCA/LCM main research centres in Poznań (Poznań University of Technology (PUT), Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB)), Cracow (Polish Academy of Sciences, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow University of Economics), Zielona Góra (University of Zielona Góra), Bydgoszcz (UTP University of Science and Technology), Katowice-Gliwice (Silesian University of Technology), Częstochowa (Częstochowa University of Technology) and Szczecin (ZUT Western Pomeranian University of Technology). LCA/LCM researches are also performed in several smaller research groups in R&D centres. In the end of the paper, some conclusions referring to the actual situation of research on LCA/LCM, dealing with critical evaluation of the LCA/LCM centres in Poland location, issues and problems addressed, areas of the projects covered and the desired activities in the future, are presented.

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  • How to find out in this thicket which are valuable and which are not worth? Some probably remember that there is Eugene Garfield who began a new era in the processes of evaluation and measurement of scientific publications with his radical invention, the Science Citation Index (SCI), which enabled the statistical analysis of large-scale scientific literature [19]

  • The quality of work should be assessed through its impact on the scientific community

  • Research is done on the base of analysis of research activities on LCA and LCM presented in details in “Bibliometric analysis of Polish LCA’s scientist performance” [14]

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Environmental life cycle assessment has developed fast over the last three decades. A comprehensive review of the historical development of LCA has recently been presented by Guinée [22]. A description and summary of the state of research on LCA in Poland has been made several times, for the first time in 1990 [24]. The first studies worldwide, which are currently considered as LCA, were carried out in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the years 1970–1990, the LCA concept was. Kłos Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

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