Relevance of attributional and consequential life cycle assessment for society and decision support
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023 Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an essential tool for assessing the environmental impact of product systems. There are two main types: attributional LCA (ALCA), which assesses the global impact share of a product's life cycle, and consequential LCA (CLCA),
Thomas Schaubroeck
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Standardization Framework for Sustainability from Circular Economy 4.0 [PDF]
, 2019 The circular economy (CE) is widely known as a way to implement and achieve sustainability, mainly due to its contribution towards the separation of biological and technical nutrients under cyclic industrial metabolism.
Aguayo-González, Francisco +4 more
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The Mathematics of life cycle sustainability assessment
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 Abstract This paper discusses a novel digital output using mathematical computation of life cycle sustainability assessment for design decisions on systemic holistic sustainability of technical systems. The computational social life cycle assessment (SLCA) combining the supply chain import data and social hotspot database for interacting countries in
Jhuma Sadhukhan +2 more
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Exergetic Life Cycle Assessment: A Review
Energies, 2020 Exergy is important and relevant in many areas of study such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), sustainability, energy systems, and the built environment.
Martin N. Nwodo, Chimay J. Anumba
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Valuing Biodiversity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment [PDF]
, 2019 Erratum published on 13 March 2020, see Sustainability 2020, 12(6), 2270. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205628In this article, the authors propose an impact assessment method for life cycle assessment (LCA) that adheres to established LCA principles for ...
Bischoff, Mascha +5 more
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Toward an overall analytical framework for the integrated sustainability assessment of the production and supply of raw materials and primary energy carriers [PDF]
, 2015 The sustainable production and supply of raw materials (nonenergy raw materials) and primary energy carriers (energy raw materials) is a core element of many policies. The natural resource base for their production and supply, and the access thereto, are
Blengini, Gian Andrea +5 more
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A Regional Socio-Economic Life Cycle Assessment of a Bioeconomy Value Chain [PDF]
, 2020 A bioeconomy tackles sustainable development at both the global and regional levels, as it relies on the optimized use of renewable bio-based resources for the provisioning of food, materials, and energy to meet societal demands.
Bezama, Alberto +4 more
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BioResources, 2016 As one of the major methodologies used in the modeling of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely used to evaluate the environmental impacts of emerging technologies and to enhance decision making towards sustainable development.
Yuan Yao
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Life Cycle Thinking for Sustainable Consumption and Production towards a Circular Economy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The current model of a linear economy with end-of-pipe waste treatment is not sustainable. Cleaner production helps reduce resource use and emissions, but is still not an optimal solution without considering a life cycle perspective.
Gheewala Shabbir H.
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A Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Road Salt Used in Winter Maintenance Operations [PDF]
, 2016 It is important to assess from a holistic perspective the sustainability of road salt widely used in winter road maintenance (WRM) operations. The importance becomes increasingly apparent in light of competing priorities faced by roadway agencies, the ...
Cui, Na, Shi, Xianming, Xie, Ning
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