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About the Federal Commons Elementary Flow List

The Federal Commons Elementary Flow List is a list of resources and emissions that can be used in life cycle assessment (LCA) models.

This repository provides the Python module, fedelemflowlist, for building and using Federal Commons Elementary Flow List, or writing it out as a .zip archive of JSON-LD conforming to the openLCA schema.

More background on elementary flows in LCA can be found in this critical review article:

Edelen A, Ingwersen W, Rodríguez C, Alvarenga R, Almeida ARd, Wernet G (2017) Critical Review of Elementary Flows in LCA data. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1354-3

To install the fedelemflowlist module and use it in Python, see Build-&-Run.

To test or further enhance the underlying code, see Local-Installation-for-Programmers.

To contribute to the flow list see Contributing.