Emerging approaches, challenges and opportunities in life cycle assessment

By S. Hellweg, Llorenç Milà i Canals. Science, 2014

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Sustainable (2014, positive): “BIM supports process collaboration among stakeholders and, when combined with environmental impact analysis based on life cycle assessment methods, can collectively improve the effectiveness of sustainability assessments, thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the project from the outset [9].”
A 40-year review of food–energy–water nexus literature and its application to the urban scale (2019, background): “LCA accounts for the resource use and environmental burdens of production systems and enables comparisons of competing technologies and the identification of environmental ‘hotspots’ in supply chains (Hellweg and Milà i Canals 2014).”
Perovskite solar cells: An integrated hybrid lifecycle assessment and review in comparison with other photovoltaic technologies (2017, background): “fication, quantification and assessment of the associated environmental impacts throughout the entire value chain of an activity, product or process [160,161].”
The potential of insect protein to reduce food-based carbon footprints in Europe: The case of broiler meat production (2021, background): “The impact of these emissions can be evaluated in different impact categories or by types of indicators (Hellweg and i Canals, 2014).”
Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health (2016, background): “Characterization factors are relative, measured against a reference substance for which effects are well-known, and so have common equivalent units, such as CO2-e for global warming [15].”
Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives (2017, background): “The goal of LCA is to assess the environmental impact of products from a system perspective and to identify possible improvement strategies [125,126].”
The Future of Ex-Ante LCA? Lessons Learned and Practical Recommendations (2019, background): “The purpose of life cycle assessment (LCA) can differ across studies, but in most cases the target is to provide information for decision support, aimed at the achievement of a more sustainable society [1,2].”
The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE) (2018, methodology): “For several decades, life cycle assessment (LCA) (ISO 14040 2006) has served as a decision-making tool to help reduce environmental impacts of products and services (Hellweg and Milà i Canals 2014).”