eprintid: 21445 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 4503 dir: disk0/00/02/14/45 datestamp: 2016-04-14 07:11:03 lastmod: 2021-10-27 13:36:50 status_changed: 2016-04-14 07:11:03 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Puel, Gilles creators_name: Huang, Daiyue creators_name: Chao, Liu creators_id: gilles.puel@univ-tlse2.fr creators_idrefppn: 115446265 creators_idrefppn: 171334264 title: Spatial Environmental Balance to Information and Communication Technology products in different regions of China by using LCA ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO2 subjects: subjects_SCIENCESHUM abstract: Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry meets great expansion in China, in production as in diffusion, as the derived environmental impact becomes an increasing key issue in concern of Chinese policy makers. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely used tool for measuring ICT products' environmental impact then for estimating relative legislative measures' efficiency. Consider the vast territory with highly centralized of power in China, this paper introduces the geographical factor into the study on the environmental impact according to different categories of ICT product. From this article, the geographically unbalanced development of ICT industry together with disproportional distribution of energy consumption over different phases of ICT products' life cycle may eventually contributes to the inconsistent results on environmental benefits or loss in different regions, according to the concept of LCA. In ignoring the fact that environmental balance varies from one region to another, according to the product's category and how the LCA result is distributed over different phases of life cycle, there could be eventual inefficiency of China's environmental policy-making in subject of ICT industry's environmental impact for the past, today and tomorrow. date: 2015-03-15 date_type: published publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, faculty: iep divisions: LEREPS keywords: ICT keywords: LCA keywords: Environmental balance has_fulltext: FALSE view_date_year: 2015 full_text_status: none publication: Journal of Cleaner Production number: 91 place_of_pub: Butterworth-Heinemann,xford refereed: TRUE issn: 0959-6526 harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn site: iep citation: Puel, Gilles , Huang, Daiyue and Chao, Liu (2015) Spatial Environmental Balance to Information and Communication Technology products in different regions of China by using LCA. Journal of Cleaner Production (91).