A Conceptual Framework of Intelligent System for Environmental Life Cycle Costing

Abstract

The Environmental Life Cycle Costing (ELCC) is a novel technique used to calculate all the costs associated with the existence of a product or a service, including the external environmental costs which are not included in a traditional Life Cycle Costing (LCC). The aim of the chapter was to develop a conceptual framework of the Intelligent System for ELCC calculations based on the analysis of the methodology of ELCC calculation in selected papers from recent years. The conducted analysis showed that there are many differences in ELCC calculating methodology and that there is a need to unify it with the use of an integrated information system in order to create the possibility to compare the ELCCs of different products or services.