| Academic degree: | |  | | Last name: | Bras-Klapwijk | | First name: | Remke | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | Dr. Remke M. Bras-Klapwijk | | Department: | Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends | | Position: | | | Street, Number, POB: | Prinssessegracht 23 | | Postal code, City: | PO Box 30424 | | State: | | | Country: | NETHERLANDS | | Phone: | +31 70 3029838 | | Fax: | | | E-mail address: | bras@stt.nl | | Url: | http://www.stt.nl | | Curriculum vitae: | Dr. Remke Bras-Klapwijk has worked at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology (DUT) since 1993. Her PhD thesis focused on the use of LCAs in public policy discourses. From a policy analysis point of view, she concluded that LCAs are often not constructive in supporting debates on the environmental aspects of products.
She participated in the SusHouse project, an international research project in which strategies for sustainable households were designed with stakeholders using the backcasting method. Based on the LCA methodology, she developed a practical, strategic environmental assessment methodology that can deal with the system-level, future-oriented and uncertain nature of the strategies.
She has also worked for the project Education for Sustainable Development of the TUD which aims at the integration of sustainable development in the Delft curricula.
In the meantime (July 2003), she is employed with Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends.
Remke Bras-Klapwijk: I was triggered to develop a vision on the generation of alternatives as I noticed during my thesis work that new alternatives with environmental potential are often ignored in LCAs. In the LCA community, the activity of generating and selecting is regarded as important but also as an intuitive, creative process that cannot be guided. Coming from the policy analysis discipline, I knew that many scientific insights and tools were available, and saw it as a challenge to apply this to the LCA field. With this article I also want to make a connection between the LCA field and the engineering field. Working at a technical univeristy, surrounded by engineers and designers, I see daily that new designs and technologies can be used to reduce todays environmental problems – and that these engineers need practical tools to assess and compare the environmental burden of their designs. | | Areas of interest: | | | Articles: | 3 LCA (6) 333-342 (1998), Are Life Cycle Assessments a Threat to Sound Public Policy Making?
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