Climate Change Impacts of Emergent Production Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Emergent production technologies such as additive manufacturing have the potential to disrupt supply chains, to rationalize material utilization and to accelerate the time-to-market progression of new products and services. Of course, the impact of those technologies, which can be lower or higher than that of the technology/-ies replaced, is mostly circumstantial but with potential abstract benefits. Reduced burden shifts, de-centralized production, and simplified supply chain do help to bring socioeconomic and environmental value to these novel technologies. Overall, are traditional life cycle analysis methods still the most suitable approach to unconventional processes? Are impact assessment methods able to keep up in a manner of reflecting real impacts? Are life-cycle inventories complete enough to showcase emergent technologies? If so, to what level or extent?

Dr. Luis Miguel Oliveira
Guest Editor

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• Emergent technologies
• Climate change
• Additive manufacturing
• LCA
• Impact assessment