Olivier Jolliet is professor in life cycle impact and risk modeling at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. He is also one of the founders of Quantis-International, which provides life cycle assessment (LCA) expertise to companies and governments and is one of the two co-initiators of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Dr. Jolliet has been one of the pioneers in developing LCA and applying it to food sustainability and innovative technologies since the early 1990s, He has developed comprehensive Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods, such as the IMPACT2002 method He has authored or coauthored 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Myriam Saadé-Sbeih earned her PhD in environmental sciences from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2011, after working for two years in the Life Cycle System group of Professor Jolliet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. She is currently a research fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and since 2012 has been the scientific coordinator of a research program on the transboundary Orontes River basin, funded by the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency. Her research focuses on human-hydrosystem coevolution in uncertain contexts, especially in the Middle East.

Shanna Shaked is lecturer in the departments of Physics & Astronomy and Environmental Science at the University of California - Los Angeles, teaching LCA and physics. She serves on the UCLA Physical Sciences Undergraduate Education Committee to improve undergraduate teaching using evidence-based techniques. Sheearned her PhD in applied physics from the University of Michigan in 2011 after receiving her BS and BA in physics, astronomy, and mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2002. She received her MA in teaching from Ithaca College in 2013. She is passionate about making quality education available to all and helping more people assess the global impacts of their actions.

Alexandre Jolliet is a student in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, where he is studying political science and philosophy with specializations in political economy and development, political philosophy, and ethics. He spends his summers teaching courses to Spanish secondary school students preparing for their Cambridge English: First (FCE) exams at English Summer International Schools in Tarragona, Spain.

Pierre Crettaz earned his PhD in environmental engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 2000. Between 2000 and 2005, he worked as a senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and was responsible for the registration of pesticides with respect to their human health effects. He obtained his MSc in applied toxicology at the University of Surrey in Guildford. He is currently the head of the biocides section at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. He represents Switzerland in committees on biocides and is responsible for the risk assessment of biocidal products.

Introduction. General Principles of Life Cycle Assessment. Goal and System Definition. Inventory Analysis of Emissions and Extractions. Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Interpretation. Conclusions and Key Points. LCA through Example from A to Z: Treating Urban Sewage Sludge. Metacomparison of the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Bio-Based Products. Appendices. Glossary. References.