Publications

Life Cycle Inventories involve data collection and modelling of the product system and verification of the date. This Action addressed the broad scope of problems related to inventories and databases, both in terms of different manufacturing processes as well as in the horizontal dimension: addressing methodological questions related to data and modelling in general. All those problems have been treated and carefully elaborated. Moreover, the Action dealt with the comomn life cycle phase “end of life”, essential in most studies, as well as the discussion on a set of life cycle applications under the umbrella of the European Integrated Product Policy (ecodesign, ecolabelling, etc.) Finally, the Action not only identified all those scientific aspects related to Life cycle Inventories, but also produced excellent results through fruitful collaboration, which are presented throughout the book.

The report Building Bridges adresses the questions why, how and for whom academic audience research has public value, from the different points of view of the four working groups in the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies – “New Media Genres, Media Literacy and Trust in the Media”, “Audience Interactivity and Participation”, “The Role of Media and ICT Use for Evolving Social Relationships” and “Audience Transformations and Social Integration”.

Building Bridges is the result of an ongoing dialogue between the Action and non-academic stakeholders in the field of audience research. Altogether, the 14 contributions in the report provide insights and feed the debate on the stakeholders’ respective “inhabited worlds” (the academia being one stakeholder among others), the different modes of researcher-stakeholder interaction, and possible (and desirable) areas of joint interest and collaboration.