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Review of Life Cycle Assessment in Agro-Chemical Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method used to evaluate the potential impacts on the environment of a product, process, or activity throughout its life cycle.
Belaud, Jean-Pierre   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Social and Environmental Assessment of a Solidarity Oriented Energy Community: A Case-Study in San Giovanni a Teduccio, Napoli (IT)

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Renewable energy communities (RECs) are alternatives toward sustainable production and consumption pathways. In 2020, Italy implemented the EU Directive 2018/2001, defining a common framework for promoting energy from renewable sources.
Serena Kaiser   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From life cycle talking to taking action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Introduction - The biannual Life Cycle Management conference series aims to create a platform for users and developers of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and related tools to share their experiences. A key concern of the LCM community has been to move beyond
Blottnitz, H., von   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Standardization Framework for Sustainability from Circular Economy 4.0 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Toward an overall analytical framework for the integrated sustainability assessment of the production and supply of raw materials and primary energy carriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Social Life Cycle Inventory for Pavements – A Case Study of South Africa

open access: yesTransportation Engineering, 2021
Social consideration, assessed using a social life cycle assessment (S-LCA), is a relatively new concept that has yet to be standardised. Attempts at measuring social sustainability in pavement management have been made in South Africa, using social ...
Sheldon A. Blaauw   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining Corporate Sustainability as a Public Good Rather than a Corporate Bad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Corporations have been criticized for their environmental misdeeds for over a century, so it is not surprising that many view corporate approaches to sustainability with skepticism.
Wagner, Wendy E.
core   +1 more source

Investigating Life Cycle Cost, Environmental and Social Impacts of a Lithium–Ion Battery Pack

open access: yesIEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
This study evaluates the environmental, economic, and social impacts of the life cycle of a battery pack for automotive applications. The analysis employs Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for environmental assessment, Life Cycle Costing (LCC) for economic ...
Antonella Accardo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Aspects in the Wine Sector: Comparison between Social Life Cycle Assessment and VIVA Sustainable Wine Project Indicators

open access: yesResources, 2019
When examining the triple bottom line approach (TBL) in regard to sustainability, social aspects are the less explored in the context of wine production.
Olimpia Martucci   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An application of hybrid life cycle assessment as a decision support framework for green supply chains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In an effort to achieve sustainable operations, green supply chain management has become an important area for firms to concentrate on due to its inherent involvement with all the processes that provide foundations to successful business.
A. Acquaye   +13 more
core   +1 more source

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