If life cycle oriented methods are to encourage sustainable development, they must account for the role of ecosystem goods and services, since these form the basis of planetary activities and human well-being. This article reviews methods that are relevant to accounting for the role of nature and that could be integrated into life cycle oriented approaches. These include methods developed by ec...

Background: Food waste is a very serious problem, it is proven that Indonesia is the second largest producer of food waste in the world. A limited waste management system will result in a decrease in environmental quality such as air pollution, water pollution, and soil pollution. So far, the waste management system is only limited to reducing waste generation. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a ...

Life-cycle assessment, as applied to conventional product development, can be applied in the Software Engineering domain to determine the environmental impact of a software product itself, but also the environmental impact of a software development

The forestry sector in Portugal faces important challenges, resulting an increased incidence of fires and the action pathogens, which puts sustainability forest resources at risk. Due to economic, social, environmental importance forests, this work assessed land use impact maritime pine eucalypt standing Portuguese forests. SimaPro software was used translate inventory table results into catego...