Life cycle sustainability assessment [PDF]
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2012 n ...
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Social Life Cycle Assessment: State of the art and challenges for supporting product policies [PDF]
, 2015 Well-being is considered one of the main development goals of modern society. Assessing what could improve well-being and what may undermine it is a key element in public policies, looking at social benefit and impacts.
DEWULF Jo +4 more
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Sustainability assessment of future-oriented scenarios: a review of data modelling approaches in Life Cycle Assessment [PDF]
, 2013 Steering policy-making processes and business long term strategies entails tasks such as e.g. setting up sound environmental long term objectives and targets, assessing implications, and comparing options.
BRANDAO Miguel +3 more
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): new poplar clones allow an environmentally sustainable cultivation
Annals of Silvicultural Research, 2020 In Italy 72 poplar clones (Populus spp.) are registered for commercialization. They were selected for fast growth, stem shape and disease resistance. The new selections (named MSA) includes genotypes with very high resistance to all the main diseases ...
Pier Mario Chiarabaglio +7 more
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Sustainability assessment of dwellings - a comparison of methodologies [PDF]
, 2016 Building sustainability assessment tools (BSATs) aim to promote and rank the sustainability of building stock. This paper makes a deep comparative analysis on how dwellings are evaluated by five BSAT and one performance-based design tool.
Andrade, Joana Bonifácio, Bragança, L.
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Sustainability Performance of an Italian Textile Product
Economies, 2018 Companies are more and more interested in the improvement of sustainability performance of products, services and processes. For this reason, appropriate and suitable assessment tools supporting the transition to a green economy are highly necessary ...
Paola Lenzo +4 more
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Heliyon, 2023 With the increasing interest in Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) applications for assessing the sustainability of processes, products and services, up-to-date syntheses and evidence-based critical outcomes analysis are required to guide future studies and ...
Teresa Maria Gulotta +3 more
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Life cycle assessment of organic chocolate production in Peru
Cleaner Environmental SystemsLimited studies have been conducted in Latin America related to the environmental profile of cocoa and chocolate production using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The current study conducts a cradle-to-gate LCA of the production of organic chocolate products
Ian Vázquez-Rowe +9 more
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Aspects of sustainability and design engineering for the production of interconnected smart food packaging [PDF]
, 2019 In the present work, the problem of food wastage and the concept of sustainability are studied. An analysis of Life Cycle Assessment as a tool and of the innovative concept of Cradle to Cradle is also carried out, together with an exhaustive comparison
Aguayo-González, Francisco +4 more
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Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Additive Manufacturing [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of technologies that create objects by adding material layer upon layer, in precise geometric shapes. They are amongst the most disruptive technologies nowadays, potentially changing value chains from the design process to the end-of-life, providing significant advantages over traditional manufacturing processes ...
Inês Ribeiro +7 more
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