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METHODOLOGY OF LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2019
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) represents the most widely adopted tool for calculation and evaluation of the environmentally relevant inputs and outputs and the potential environmental impacts of the life cycle of a product, material or service.
Danijela Nikolić   +4 more
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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Approaches for Manufacturing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sustainability assessments considering the three dimensions environment, economy, and society are needed to evaluate manufacturing processes and products with regard to their sustainability performance. This chapter focuses on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), which considers all three sustainability dimensions by combining the three methods
Chang, Ya-Ju   +4 more
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Integrated Sustainability Assessment: Exergy, Emergy, Life Cycle Assessment

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Methodological tools such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Exergy Analysis (ExA), and Emergy Analysis (EmA) that account for sustainability indicators in environmental, economic, and/or social dimensions, cannot provide an assessment under these three ...
Natalia Cano-Londoño   +3 more
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Life cycle approach to sustainability assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Sustainability is an international issue with increasing concern and becomes a crucial driver for the industry in international competition. Sustainability encompasses the three dimensions: environment, society and economy. This paper presents the results from a sustainability assessment of a product. To prevent burden shifting, the whole life cycle of
Schau, Erwin M.   +2 more
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Life cycle assessment for sustainability assessment of biofuels and bioproducts [PDF]

open access: yesBiofuel Research Journal, 2023
Bio-based materials have been used traditionally for millennia. Their use was overtaken in recent times by the discovery and utilization of fossil-based resources for materials and energy.
Shabbir Gheewala
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Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2010
Sustainability is nowadays accepted by all stakeholders as a guiding principle for both public policy making and corporate strategies. However, the biggest challenge for most organizations remains in the real and substantial implementation of the sustainability concept.
Finkbeiner, Matthias   +3 more
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Rice Production Chain: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment—A Review

open access: yesAgriculture, 2023
Rice is the most widely used cereal for human consumption, attributing its production as one of the most important activities for the global population. Therefore, given its economic and nutritional value, assessing the sustainability of this production ...
Giuliana Vinci   +3 more
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Life cycle sustainability assessment of crops in India

open access: yesCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2021
In India, the modernization in the agricultural sector is continuously growing to meet the food demand of rising population. However, along with addressing hunger, modern agriculture impacts the ecosystem, human health, and resources, due to huge ...
Ambika Selvaraj   +4 more
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Life cycle thinking in sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Increasing population and affluence have had a direct influence on increasing the energy demand of nations across the globe. Energy from non-renewable fossil resources has associated emissions of greenhouse gases contributing to climate change, a major ...
Gheewala Shabbir H.
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