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Analysis of the Cultured Meat Production System in Function of Its Environmental Footprint: Current Status, Gaps and Recommendations

open access: yesFoods, 2021
Cultured meat has been presented as an environmentally friendlier option to conventional meat, but due to the limited data, the studies related to its performance are scarce and based on hypothetical production processes.
María Ignacia Rodríguez Escobar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability assessment of future-oriented scenarios: a review of data modelling approaches in Life Cycle Assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Integrating Circularity in the Sustainability Assessment of Asphalt Mixtures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Rising concerns about the impacts that the road engineering industry is imposing to the environment have redirected national road authorities to firmly re-consider the sustainability implications of their operations.
Di Mino Gaetano, Mantalovas Konstantinos
core   +1 more source

Sustainability assessment of dwellings - a comparison of methodologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
core   +1 more source

A consequential approach to life cycle sustainability assessment with an agent‐based model to determine the potential contribution of chemical recycling to UN Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Ecology, 2022
Chemical recycling (CR) could support a circular approach for municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment. In promoting the recirculation of recyclable carbon‐containing waste as secondary feedstock for chemical production, it could contribute to resource ...
R. Voss, Roh Pin Lee, M. Fröhling
semanticscholar   +1 more source

FLAVIA-LCT - Framework for systematic literature review to analyse vast InformAtion in life cycle thinking studies

open access: yesHeliyon, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Aspects of sustainability and design engineering for the production of interconnected smart food packaging [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Setting Thresholds to Define Indifferences and Preferences in PROMETHEE for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of European Hydrogen Production

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
The Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is a proven method for sustainability assessment. However, the interpretation phase of an LCSA is challenging because many different single results are obtained.
C. Wulf   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainability Performance of an Italian Textile Product

open access: yesEconomies, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): new poplar clones allow an environmentally sustainable cultivation

open access: yesAnnals 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
doaj   +1 more source

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