Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an intrinsically complex multi-dimensional process, involving multiple criteria and multiple actors. Multi-criteria methods can serve as useful decision aids for carrying out the EIA. This paper proposes the use of a multi-criteria technique, namely the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), for the purpose. AHP has the flexibility to combine quantitative and...

In the modern economy, international value chains--production, use, and disposal of goods--have global environmental impacts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) aims to track these impacts and assess them from a systems perspective, identifying strategies for improvement without burden shifting. We review recent developments in LCA, including existing and emerging applications aimed at supporting envi...

The rapid and continuous development of information and communication technology (ICT) in society today is providing new means for various societal activities. To facilitate that new ICT solutions reduce environmental impacts and bring social improvements the potential impacts of those new solutions should be assessed. One way of making environmental assessments is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). ...

The monitoring and evaluation of air quality is a topic great global interest as, with the decline quality, there are negative effects on human health ecosystems. Thus, purpose this paper was to evaluate over 11 years, in period 2011–2021, four cities Romania, reported as most polluted, namely, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Timisoara. Pollutants included arsenic, carbon monoxide, PM2.5. measured c...

Environmental impact assessment of goods and services is nowadays a major challenge for both economic and ethical reasons. Life Cycle Assessment provides a well accepted methodology for modeling environmental impacts of human activities. This methodology relies on the decomposition of a studied system into interdependent processes in a step called Life Cycle Inventory. Every process has several...

inputs of land for raw material production and fabric manufacturing. Such land use has significant implications for biodiversity—the diversity of Earth’s species, which provide critical services such as pollination, water purification, and climate regulation. Although land use is a major driver of biodiversity loss, there is no easily applicable method for incorporating land use impacts on biod...

A transparent and inclusive mining sector that is environmentally and socially responsible...which provides lasting benefits to the community and pursues an integrated view of the rights of various stakeholders...is essential to addressing the adverse impacts of the mining sector and to avoid conflicts induced by mineral exploitation. Public participation in assessing the environmental and soci...