Integrating Economic Analysis into LCA

The Added Value of Integrating Emergy into LCA

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become a standard procedure to investigate the environmental performance of human-dominated products and processes. It is meant to capture the overall impact of a product or service along its lifetime and supply chain, and it is structured in four steps: goal definition and scoping, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation. Impact assessment is carried ou...

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Integrating Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) with Process Modeling

One of the main obstacles of directing process design/optimization with LCA is the disconnect between the two despite significant overlapping of information needed for both analyses. To bridge this gap, an integrated system with a process modeling environment, an LCA model, an uncertainty analysis tool, and chemical databases are proposed. The process modeling environment allows easy accumulati...

Integrating economic costs into conservation planning.

Recent studies that incorporate the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic costs in conservation planning have shown that limited budgets can achieve substantially larger biological gains than when planning ignores costs. Despite concern from donors about the effectiveness of conservation interventions, these increases in efficiency from incorporating costs into planning have...

Integrating Business Sustainability into Supply Chain Management

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...