Fuzzy Risk-Based Life Cycle Assessment for Estimating Environmental Aspects in EMS

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  • Cheng-Wu Chen
چکیده

Environmental aspects plays a central role in environmental management system (EMS) because it is the basis for the identification of an organization’s environmental targets. The existing methods for the assessment of environmental aspects are grouped into three categories: risk assessment-based (RA-based), LCA-based and criterion-based methods. To combine the benefits of these three categories of research, this study proposes an integrated framework, combining RA-, LCAand criterion-based methods. The integrated framework incorporates LCA techniques for the identification of the causal linkage for aspect, pathway, receptor and impact, uses fuzzy logic to assess aspects, considers fuzzy conditions, in likelihood assessment, and employs a new multi-criteria decision analysis method multi-criteria and multi-connection comprehensive assessment (MMCA) to estimate significant aspects in EMS. The proposed model is verified, using a real case study and the results show that this method successfully prioritizes the environmental aspects.. Keywords—Environmental management system, environmental aspect, risk assessment, life cycle assessment.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012