Journal articles: 'Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment'

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Zamagni, Alessandra. "Life cycle sustainability assessment." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 17, no. 4 (February 22, 2012): 373–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-012-0389-8.

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Finkbeiner, Matthias, Erwin M. Schau, Annekatrin Lehmann, and Marzia Traverso. "Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment." Sustainability 2, no. 10 (October 22, 2010): 3309–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su2103309.

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Nikolić, Danijela, Saša Jovanović, Jasmina Skerlić, Jasmina Šušteršič, and Jasna Radulović. "METHODOLOGY OF LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT." Proceedings on Engineering Sciences 1, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 793–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.24874/pes01.02.084.

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Kloepffer, Walter. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of products." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13, no. 2 (February 13, 2008): 89–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/lca2008.02.376.

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Zhou, Zupeng, Hua Jiang, and Liancheng Qin. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of fuels." Fuel 86, no. 1-2 (January 2007): 256–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2006.06.004.

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He, Bin, Ting Luo, and Shan Huang. "Product sustainability assessment for product life cycle." Journal of Cleaner Production 206 (January 2019): 238–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.097.

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Sadhukhan, Jhuma, Sohum Sen, and Siddharth Gadkari. "The Mathematics of life cycle sustainability assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 309 (August 2021): 127457. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127457.

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Martínez-Blanco, Julia, Annekatrin Lehmann, Pere Muñoz, Assumpció Antón, Marzia Traverso, Joan Rieradevall, and Matthias Finkbeiner. "Application challenges for the social Life Cycle Assessment of fertilizers within life cycle sustainability assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 69 (April 2014): 34–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.044.

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de Almeida Pais, José Edmundo, Hugo D. N. Raposo, José Torres Farinha, Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, and Pedro Alexandre Marques. "Optimizing the Life Cycle of Physical Assets through an Integrated Life Cycle Assessment Method." Energies 14, no. 19 (September 26, 2021): 6128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14196128.

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The purpose of this study was to apply new methods of econometric models to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of physical assets, by integrating investments such as maintenance, technology, sustainability, and technological upgrades, and to propose a means to evaluate the Life Cycle Investment (LCI), with emphasis on sustainability. Sustainability is a recurrent theme of existing studies and will be a concern in coming decades. As a result, equipment with a smaller environmental footprint is being continually developed. This paper presents a method to evaluate asset depreciation with an emphasis on the maintenance investment, technology depreciation, sustainability depreciation, and technological upgrade investment. To demonstrate the value added of the proposed model, it was compared with existing models that do not take the previously mentioned aspects into consideration. The econometric model is consistent with asset life cycle plans as part of the Strategic Asset Management Plan of the Asset Management System. It is clearly demonstrated that the proposed approach is new and the results are conclusive, as demonstrated by the presented models and their results. This research aims to introduce new methods that integrate the factors of technology upgrades and sustainability for the evaluation of assets’ LCA and replacement time. Despite the increase in investment in technology upgrades and sustainability, the results of the Integrated Life Cycle Assessment First Method (ILCAM1), which represents an improved approach for the analyzed data, show that the asset life is extended, thus increasing sustainability and promoting the circular economy. By comparison, the Integrated Life Cycle Investment Assessment Method (ILCIAM) shows improved results due to the investment in technology upgrades and sustainability. Therefore, this study presents an integrated approach that may offer a valid tool for decision makers.

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Ribeiro, Matos, Jacinto, Salman, Cardeal, Carvalho, Godina, and Peças. "Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Additive Manufacturing." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 27, 2020): 929. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030929.

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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 in terms of flexibility in design and production and waste minimization. Nevertheless, sustainability assessment should also be included in the research agenda as these technologies affect the People, the Planet and the Profit: the three-bottom line (3BL) assessment framework. Moreover, AM sustainability depends on each product and context that strengthens the need for its assessment through the 3BL framework. This paper explores the literature on AM sustainability, and the results are mapped in a framework aiming to support comprehensive assessments of the AM impacts in the 3BL dimensions by companies and researchers. To sustain the coherence of boundaries, three life cycle methods are proposed, each one for a specific dimension of the 3BL analysis, and two illustrative case studies are shown to exemplify the model.

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Thomson, Craig S., Mohamed A. El-Haram, and Rohinton Emmanuel. "Mapping sustainability assessment with the project life cycle." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 164, no. 2 (June 2011): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2011.164.2.143.

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Balieu, R., F. Chen, and N. Kringos. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of electrified road systems." Road Materials and Pavement Design 20, sup1 (March 19, 2019): S19—S33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2019.1588771.

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O'Shea, T., J. S. Golden, and L. Olander. "Sustainability and Earth Resources: Life Cycle Assessment Modeling." Business Strategy and the Environment 22, no. 7 (July 10, 2012): 429–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.1745.

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Selvaraj, Ambika, Jagrati Gautam, Shikhar Verma, Gaurav Verma, and Siddhant Jain. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of crops in India." Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 3 (2021): 100074. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100074.

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Zuhria Kautzar, Galuh, Ishardita Pambudi Tama, and Yeni Sumantri. "Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Sugarcane Industry Using Life Cycle Assessment." Journal of Engineering and Management in Industrial System 8, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 56–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.jemis.2020.008.02.5.

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The sugarcane industry is one of the industries that generated negatives impact on the environment. Therefore, it can be concluded that the sugarcane industry is not environmentally sustainable. The results of this research show that the use of electricity from bagasse cogeneration becomes the main contributor to all of damage categories. Meanwhile, the highest contribution to damage categories is human health with a total score of 59%. The results of this research are expected to reduce the environmental impact produced by PT. X so that PT. X will be more environmentally sustainable.

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Baumann, Henrikke, and Tomas Rydberg. "Life cycle assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 2, no. 1 (January 1994): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0959-6526(94)90020-5.

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Nwodo, Martin N., and Chimay J. Anumba. "Exergetic Life Cycle Assessment: A Review." Energies 13, no. 11 (May 26, 2020): 2684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13112684.

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Exergy is important and relevant in many areas of study such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), sustainability, energy systems, and the built environment. With the growing interest in the study of LCA due to the awareness of global environmental impacts, studies have been conducted on exergetic life cycle assessment for resource accounting. The aim of this paper is to review existing studies on exergetic life cycle assessment to investigate the state-of-the-art and identify the benefits and opportunity for improvement. The methodology used entailed an in-depth literature review, which involved an analysis of journal articles collected through a search of databases such as Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The selected articles were reviewed and analyzed, and the findings are presented in this paper. The following key conclusions were reached: (a) exergy-based methods provide an improved measure of sustainability, (b) there is an opportunity for a more comprehensive approach to exergetic life cycle assessment that includes life cycle emission, (c) a new terminology is required to describe the combination of exergy of life cycle resource use and exergy of life cycle emissions, and (d) improved exergetic life cycle assessment has the potential to solve characterization and valuation problems in the LCA methodology.

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Estokova, Adriana, and Dagmar Samesova. "Sustainable Building Materials and Life Cycle Assessment." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 13, 2021): 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042012.

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Onat, Nuri, Murat Kucukvar, and Omer Tatari. "Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Passenger Vehicles." Sustainability 6, no. 12 (December 16, 2014): 9305–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su6129305.

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Schluchter, Wolf, and Magdalena Rybaczewska- Błażejowska. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of municipal waste management systems." Management 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 361–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10286-012-0072-y.

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Abstract Life cycle sustainability assessment of municipal waste management systems The core element of all waste management systems that determines further treatment is the collection, transportation and sorting of waste. There is a spectrum of options that ranges from the complete source separation of waste with little or no consecutive sorting to the minimum separation at source and the consecutive central sorting of fully commingle waste. As each of the collection - transportation - sorting methods has particular characteristics, in assessing the most sustainable solution, a number of factors have to be taken into consideration. To assist decision makers (ad exemplum local authorities), the authors of this article has specified environmental, economic and social criteria that need to be considered while designing the integrated waste management systems. They can be grouped into environmental effectiveness (conservation of resources and reduction of environmental pollution), economic affordability and social acceptability. The article refers to the authors’ research on “The application of life cycle assessment in the integrated municipal waste management” founded by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

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Wang, JingJing, YuanFeng Wang, YiWen Sun, Danielle Densley Tingley, and YuRong Zhang. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of fly ash concrete structures." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 80 (December 2017): 1162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.232.

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Raymond, Alena J., Alissa Kendall, Jason T. DeJong, Edward Kavazanjian, Miriam A. Woolley, and Kimberly K. Martin. "Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Fugitive Dust Control Methods." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 147, no. 3 (March 2021): 04020181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001993.

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Hannouf, Marwa, and Getachew Assefa. "A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment-Based Decision-Analysis Framework." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (October 24, 2018): 3863. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10113863.

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One of the main challenges in using life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is the difficulty of integrating the interrelationships between the three dimensions (environmental, economic and social dimensions) of LCSA results in decision-making toward proposing sustainability improvements for existing product systems. This paper is addressing this challenge by presenting an LCSA-based decision-analysis framework, which is a systematic and structured framework that appraises the pool of potential actions determined based on LCSA results and evaluates their trade-offs to propose potential sustainability solutions. The framework is composed of two parts: (a) LCSA application; (b) decision-analysis approach. The decision analysis part of the framework is built based on some features from previous decision-making approaches and considering the characteristics of LCSA results. The decision-analysis part of the framework, which is the main focus of this study, is divided into five phases to propose and select some recommendations to improve the sustainability performance of product systems. The framework developed is illustrated using results from a previous LCSA case study. The framework can handle the complexity in understanding the interrelationships between the three dimensions of LCSA results, through a structured way of dividing the process into manageable steps. Further work is still needed to apply this framework to a real case study.

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Guo, Zhi, Shuaishuai Ge, Xilong Yao, Hui Li, and Xiaoyu Li. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of pumped hydro energy storage." International Journal of Energy Research 44, no. 1 (September 18, 2019): 192–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/er.4890.

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Sen, Burak, Murat Kucukvar, Nuri C. Onat, and Omer Tatari. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy‐duty trucks." Journal of Industrial Ecology 24, no. 1 (December 16, 2019): 149–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12964.

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Shrivastava, Shilpi, and Seema Unnikrishnan. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of crude oil in India." Journal of Cleaner Production 283 (February 2021): 124654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124654.

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Wood, Richard, and Edgar G. Hertwich. "Economic modelling and indicators in life cycle sustainability assessment." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18, no. 9 (July 13, 2012): 1710–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-012-0463-2.

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Alejandrino, Clarisa, Irma Mercante, and María D. Bovea. "Life cycle sustainability assessment: Lessons learned from case studies." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 87 (March 2021): 106517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106517.

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Valente, Clara, Hanne Møller, Fredrik Moltu Johnsen, Simon Saxegård, Elin Rasten Brunsdon, and Ole Arne Alvseike. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of a novel slaughter concept." Journal of Cleaner Production 272 (November 2020): 122651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122651.

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Gheewala, Shabbir H. "Life cycle thinking in sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems." E3S Web of Conferences 277 (2021): 01001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127701001.

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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 challenge facing us today. The governments of many countries have tried to address the twin issues of limited local availability of fossil resources and greenhouse gas emissions by promoting the use of bioenergy. Bioenergy is not automatically sustainable unlike popular belief. Assessing its sustainability using a life cycle thinking approach reveals many caveats, not only regarding greenhouse gas emissions but also other environmental impacts that are often ignored. The environmental assessment of palm oil-based biodiesel shows the trade-offs when considering all the life cycle stages of the biofuel supply chain and also when multiple impact categories are considered. The so-called carbon neutrality becomes questionable and other impacts from agriculture arising due to the use of land and agrochemicals are also seen to be very significant. Ignoring these in policymaking could result in serious unintended consequences. Thus, the importance of life cycle thinking in sustainability assessment is illustrated. This will be critical in addressing national needs while also moving towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

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Miller, Veronica B., Amy E. Landis, and Laura A. Schaefer. "A benchmark for life cycle air emissions and life cycle impact assessment of hydrokinetic energy extraction using life cycle assessment." Renewable Energy 36, no. 3 (March 2011): 1040–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2010.08.016.

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André, Hampus, and Maria Ljunggren. "Towards comprehensive assessment of mineral resource availability? Complementary roles of life cycle, life cycle sustainability and criticality assessments." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 167 (April 2021): 105396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105396.

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Backes, Jana Gerta, and Marzia Traverso. "Application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Systematic Literature Review." Processes 9, no. 7 (July 19, 2021): 1248. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr9071248.

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This paper reviews actual sustainability assessments in the construction sector to define whether and how a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is applied and interpreted in this sector today. This industry has large shares in global energy (33%), raw material consumption (40%) and solid waste generation (40%). Simultaneously, it drives the economy and provides jobs. The LCSA is a method to identify environmental, social and economic impacts of products/services along their life cycles. The results of this study showed a mismatch between sectoral emissions and the number of LCSA-based impact evaluations. It was found that only 11% of papers reviewed assessed all three sustainability pillars. The economic and especially the social pillars were partly neglected. In Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), 100% made use of Global Warming Potential (GWP) but only 30% assessed more than five indicators in total. In Life Cycle Costing (LCC), there were a variety of costs assessed. Depreciation and lifetime were mainly neglected. We found that 42% made use of Net Present Value (NPV), while over 50% assessed individual indicators. For the Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), the focus was on the production stage; even the system boundaries were defined as cradle-to-use and -grave. Future approaches are relevant but there is no need to innovate: a proposal for a LCSA approach is made.

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Vinci, Giuliana, and Mattia Rapa. "Hydroponic cultivation: life cycle assessment of substrate choice." British Food Journal 121, no. 8 (August 5, 2019): 1801–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-02-2019-0112.

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Purpose Nowadays, hydroponic cultivation represents a widely used agricultural methodology. The purpose of this paper is to study comparatively on hydroponic substrates. This study is highlighting the best substrate to be involved in hydroponic systems, considering its costs and its sustainability. Design/methodology/approach Seven substrates were evaluated: rock wool, perlite, vermiculite, peat, coconut fibres, bark and sand. Life cycle assessment (life cycle inventory, life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and life cycle costing (LCC)) was applied to evaluate the environmental and economic impact. Through the results of the impacts, the carbon footprint of each substrate was calculated. Findings Perlite is the most impacting substrate, as highlighted by LCIA, followed by rock wool and vermiculite. The most sustainable ones, instead, are sand and bark. Sand has the lower carbon footprint (0.0121 kg CO2 eq.); instead, bark carbon footprint results in one of the highest (1.1197 kg CO2 eq.), while in the total impact analysis this substrate seems to be highly sustainable. Also for perlite the two results are in disagreement: it has a high total impact but very low carbon footprint (0.0209 kg CO2 eq.) compared to the other substrates. From the LCC analysis it appears that peat is the most expensive substrate (€6.67/1,000 cm3), while sand is the cheaper one (€0.26/1,000 cm3). Originality/value The LCA and carbon footprint methodologies were applied to a growing agriculture practice. This study has highlighted the economic and environmental sustainability of seven substrates examined. This analysis has shown that sand can be the best substrate to be involved in hydroponic systems by considering its costs and its sustainability.

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Klöpffer, Walter. "Life Cycle Assessment as Part of Sustainability Assessment for Chemicals (5 pp)." Environmental Science and Pollution Research - International 12, no. 3 (April 20, 2005): 173–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/espr2005.04.247.

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Mahmud, M. A. P., N. Huda, S. H. Farjana, and C. Lang. "Environmental sustainability assessment of hydropower plant in Europe using life cycle assessment." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 351 (May 2018): 012006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/351/1/012006.

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Rivera-Huerta, Adriana, María de la Salud Rubio Lozano, Alejandro Padilla-Rivera, and Leonor Patricia Güereca. "Social Sustainability Assessment in Livestock Production: A Social Life Cycle Assessment Approach." Sustainability 11, no. 16 (August 15, 2019): 4419. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11164419.

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This study evaluates the social performance of monoculture (MC), intensive silvopastoral (ISP), and native silvopastoral (NSP) livestock production systems in the tropical region of southeastern Mexico through a social life cycle assessment (SCLA) approach. The methodological framework proposed by the United Nations Environmental Program/Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (UNEP/SETAC) (2009) was employed based on a scoring approach with a performance scale ranging from 1 (very poor) to 4 (outstanding). Twelve livestock ranches for calf production were evaluated using 18 impact subcategories associated with the categories “human rights”, “working conditions”, “health and safety”, “socioeconomic repercussions”, and “governance”. The stakeholders evaluated were workers, the local community, society, and value chain actors. The ranches had performance scores between 1.78 (very poor) and 2.17 (poor). The overall average performance of the ranches by production system was 1.98, 1.96, and 1.97 for the MC, ISP, and NSP systems, respectively. The statistical analysis shows that there is no significant difference in the social performance of the livestock production systems. This assessment indicates that the cattle ranches analyzed in Mexico have poor or very poor social performance. The results show that socioeconomic and political contexts exert a greater influence on the social performance of livestock production systems than does their type of technology.

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Heijungs, Reinout, Gjalt Huppes, and Jeroen B. Guinée. "Life cycle assessment and sustainability analysis of products, materials and technologies. Toward a scientific framework for sustainability life cycle analysis." Polymer Degradation and Stability 95, no. 3 (March 2010): 422–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.11.010.

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Heijungs, Reinout. "Ecodesign — Carbon Footprint — Life Cycle Assessment — Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis. A Flexible Framework for a Continuum of Tools." Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University. Environmental and Climate Technologies 4, no. -1 (January 1, 2010): 42–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10145-010-0016-5.

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Ecodesign — Carbon Footprint — Life Cycle Assessment — Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis. A Flexible Framework for a Continuum of Tools Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for answering questions related to environmental impacts of products. It is a comprehensive tool, addressing the entire life cycle, and addressing the full spectrum of environmental impacts. There are two opposite movements occurring: LCA is getting smaller, and it is getting broader. This presentation presents the general framework for a broader life cycle sustainability analysis (LCSA), and shows how the practical work related to doing an LCA, a carbon footprint, or an analysis for ecodesign, can be seen as special cases.

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Ek, Kristine, Alexandre Mathern, Rasmus Rempling, Petra Brinkhoff, Mats Karlsson, and Malin Norin. "Life Cycle Sustainability Performance Assessment Method for Comparison of Civil Engineering Works Design Concepts: Case Study of a Bridge." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21 (October 28, 2020): 7909. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217909.

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Standardized and transparent life cycle sustainability performance assessment methods are essential for improving the sustainability of civil engineering works. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of using a life cycle sustainability assessment method in a road bridge case study. The method is in line with requirements of relevant standards, uses life cycle assessment, life cycle costs and incomes, and environmental externalities, and applies normalization and weighting of indicators. The case study involves a short-span bridge in a design-build infrastructure project, which was selected for its generality. Two bridge design concepts are assessed and compared: a concrete slab frame bridge and a soil-steel composite bridge. Data available in the contractor’s tender phase are used. The two primary aims of this study are (1) to analyse the practical application potential of the method in carrying out transparent sustainability assessments of design concepts in the early planning and design stages, and (2) to examine the results obtained in the case study to identify indicators in different life cycle stages and elements of the civil engineering works project with the largest impacts on sustainability. The results show that the method facilitates comparisons of the life cycle sustainability performance of design concepts at the indicator and construction element levels, enabling better-informed and more impartial design decisions to be made.

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Dinh, Trong Hung, Trung Hieu Dinh, and Uwe Götze. "Integration of Sustainability Criteria and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Method into Construction Material Selection in Developing Countries: The Case of Vietnam." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 15, no. 8 (December 22, 2020): 1145–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.150801.

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A sustainable development concerning economic, environmental, and social aspects is a global need as well as challenge in general and especially regarding the selection of construction materials. However, it is assumed that the importance of sustainability criteria is different in developed and developing countries. This is relevant for the application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, a method that integrates the established methods for economic, ecological, and social evaluation (Life Cycle Costing, Life Cycle Assessment, and Social Life Cycle Assessment) without explicitly including importance weightings. This paper aims to review the reality of sustainable development in construction material selection in Vietnam, a developing country. A list of 18 sustainability criteria was set up by reviewing previous studies and using a questionnaire. These criteria were ranked and used to calculate the importance of weightings based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process method and a Likert scale. The results showed that the “price of material” was ranked as the first among the sustainability criteria. It is also pointed out that 42.06, 29.96, and 27.98 are the weightings of Life Cycle Costing, Life Cycle Assessment, and Social Life Cycle Assessment results, respectively. Besides, 11 obstacles for integrating sustainability criteria into material selection were identified in the questionnaire, and 4 out of them were marked as showing “high” importance.

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Zhou, Zu Peng, Qiu Yun Mo, and Lian Cheng Qin. "A New Indicator for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Fuels." Advanced Materials Research 347-353 (October 2011): 360–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.347-353.360.

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Net energy (NE) output, external cost to society of emissions, total production costs, and the renewability of a fuel are four critical factors that should be taken into account while developing sustainable energy resource systems. For this purpose, a new indicator, CNERλ,(Cost of Net Energy taking into account the Renewability) is proposed in this paper. The mixture of 85% ethanol (derived from corn) and 15% gasoline by volume (E85) and conventional gasoline (CG) are selected as assessing cases for illustrating the application of the new indicator. The CNERλ of E85 is 0.885, i.e. 12.5% lower than that of CG. It is shown that E85 is a more sustainable option comparing with CG by using the novel assessment indicator.

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Halog, Anthony, and Yosef Manik. "Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment." Sustainability 3, no. 2 (February 23, 2011): 469–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su3020469.

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Комариста, Богдана Миколаївна. "Assessment of environmental sustainability of life cycle of production systems." Technology audit and production reserves 6, no. 1(8) (December 11, 2012): 47–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15587/2312-8372.2012.5472.

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Balogun, Teslim B., Adrienn Tomor, Jessica Lamond, Hazem Gouda, and Colin A. Booth. "Life-cycle assessment environmental sustainability in bridge design and maintenance." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 173, no. 7 (October 1, 2020): 365–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jensu.19.00042.

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Vári, Anna, Zoltán Ferenc, and Zoltán Kárpáti. "Sustainability assessment of technologies by taking a life-cycle approach." Socio.hu 2014, no. 1 (2014): 18–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.18030/socio.hu.2014.1.18.

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Amini Toosi, Hashem, Monica Lavagna, Fabrizio Leonforte, Claudio Del Pero, and Niccolò Aste. "Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Building Energy Retrofitting; A Review." Sustainable Cities and Society 60 (September 2020): 102248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102248.

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Tabone, Michaelangelo D., James J. Cregg, Eric J. Beckman, and Amy E. Landis. "Sustainability Metrics: Life Cycle Assessment and Green Design in Polymers." Environmental Science & Technology 44, no. 21 (November 2010): 8264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es101640n.

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Valente, Antonio, Diego Iribarren, and Javier Dufour. "Comparative life cycle sustainability assessment of renewable and conventional hydrogen." Science of The Total Environment 756 (February 2021): 144132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144132.

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Vervaeke, Marina. "Life Cycle Assessment Software for Product and Process Sustainability Analysis." Journal of Chemical Education 89, no. 7 (April 23, 2012): 884–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed200741b.

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