Paolo Frankl Author

Dr Frieder Rubik studied national economics at the University of Heidelberg. He has worked for a number of environmental economics research institutes since 1982. He is currently senior researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and head of the Ecological Product Policy department. His key publications deal with product information schemes/eco-labelling, integrated product policy and life-cycle assessment (LCA); these include: Integrierte Produktpolitik (Metropolis), LCA in Business and Industry: Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications (with Paolo Frankl; Springer, 1999) and Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives (with F. Oosterhuis and G. Scholl (Kluwer, 1996). Dr Paolo Frankl is Assistant Professor of Technology of Materials within the Programme of Industrial Design at the University of Rome 1, "La Sapienza", and is scientific head of Ecobilancio Italia, a private research and consulting company based in Rome. His background is that of a semiconductor physicist with a PhD in Energy and Environmental Technologies from the University of Rome. His main research areas are the methodology of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and its application in industry and business, the applicability of LCA for eco-efficiency and integrated product policy, and renewable energy. He is author of several publications at national and international level, including LCA in Business and Industry: Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications (with Frieder Rubik; Springer, 1999) and "LCA as a Management Tool" (in Handbook of Industrial Ecology, ed. R.U. Ayres and L. Ayres; Edward Elgar, 2002).