About Us
BeLCA team is a work group of interdisciplinary environment experts. Our goal is contributing to a sustainable development through the life cycle thinking perspective. We consider the LCA methodology a needful tool to address important decision with an objective perspective.
Mirko Vittorio Busto
Graduated in environment engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. He's presently a contract researcher at the Department of Production Systems and Business Economics (DISPEA) at Politecnico di Torino. He collaborates also with the “Economics and Management of Mineral resources and Environment&rdquo (DITAG) work group.
He's author together with Gianandrea Blengini of the first Italian study applying the life cycle approach to the Italian rice industry.
Gian Andrea Blengini
Gian Andrea Blengini received his PhD in Earth Resources at the IST-Technical University in Lisbon (2006) and obtained his BSc and Msc in Mining Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino (1994). He is presently a senior researcher at the Department of Production Systems and Business Economics (DISPEA) at the Politecnico di Torino, where he currently leads the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research group and lectures on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Resources & Environmental Economics and Applied Economics at undergraduate, master and postgraduate level. He is also an associate researcher at the Institute of Environmental Geology and Geo-Engineering (IGAG) of the CNR (National Research Council). He was a tenured researcher at Bologna University in the Department of Mining and Chemical Engineering (1998-2001). He has a work experience in industrial minerals processing (1997-98), tunnel excavation (1997) and in the International Co-operation sector for Water Supply Development Projects in Ethiopia (1994-1996). He is a member of the Society of Mining Professors since 2006. He is author or co-author of papers published in important international journals in the fields of Earth Resources; Environment; Waste Management; Recycling; LCA (Life Cycle Assessment).
Tiziana Di Carlo
Tiziana Di Carlo, graduated in Environmental engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2005. Actually she is a PhD student and she is working to a research concerning the application of LCA to building materials and to the building sector (both residential and industrial) After the degree, from march 2006 to Dicember 2006 she has worked for a Certification organization - AENOR ITALIA, accredited to certify quality management systems in accordance with 9000 standards in all activity sectors and environmental management systems in accordance with Standard ISO 14001.