Advancing life cycle sustainability assessment using multiple criteria decision making

Kalbar, Pradip P.; Das, Deepjyoti

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-818355-7.00010-5

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“…In addition to shedding light on the potential for burden shifting by comparing relative monetized impacts with single GHG scores, this method also offers insights into the relation between both the internalized and external costs associated with clothing consumption. Nonetheless, because monetarization is susceptible to uncertainty in the normalization of impacts (i.e., conversion of disparate impacts to damage with like units) (Kalbar et al, 2016b(Kalbar et al, , 2012Kalbar and Das, 2020;Sohn et al, 2017), the absolute values should be used with caution.…”

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confidence: 99%

The environmental impacts of clothing: Evidence from United States and three European countries

Sohn

Nielsen

Birkved

et al. 2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Section: Interpretation Methodsmentioning

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The environmental impacts of clothing: Evidence from United States and three European countries

Sohn

Nielsen

Birkved

et al. 2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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“…The life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) hence becomes a more comprehensive and challenging framework to apply for product/services assessment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is currently the best available method for assessing environmental footprint, whereas life cycle costing (LCC) is used for assessing economic comparisons [34]. In this work, we assessed the impact of environmental protection, social responsibility, corporate governance, and innovation strategy in the case of LMPSVs, covering the entire process of construction, operation, and dismantling of the venue.…”

Section: Applying Esgi Enterprise Life Cycle Sustainability Assessmen...mentioning

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Sustainable System Development and Strategic Framework for ESGI Enterprise Transformation in Large Multi-purposes Sports Venues

Yan,

Chi

2024

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With the trend of public infrastructure becoming more sustainable, large multi-purpose sports venues (LMPSVs) have become one of the world's most complex architectural projects and one of the landmark buildings of an international city. LMPSVs will lead the world in sustainable design, construction and operational innovations, and play a crucial role in raising awareness of sustainability around the world. System Thinking (ST), System Dynamics (SD) and Sustainable System Development (SSD) theories are three interrelated concepts that together form a methodological framework for solving complex system problems and driving strategies. The purpose of this study is to examine how LMPSVs can implement environmental, social, governance, and innovation (ESGI) enterprise transformation strategy (ETS) based on a sustainable systems development (SSD) framework. In view of the current global environmental challenges and social responsibility requirements, the motivation of this study is to provide an integrated transformation pathway for LMPSVs to achieve the goal of sustainable development and to contribute to the field of related disciplines. The methodology of this research adopts a combination of literature review and case study analysis, and the theoretical basis is mainly drawn from cutting-edge research in the fields of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental management. Then, by analyzing successful transformation cases in China, we extract data and information to explore the application and effectiveness of these strategies in practice. The results of the study show that by implementing ESGI-based transformation strategy, LMPSVs can not only make significant progress in terms of environmental protection, social responsibility, and governance structure, but also drive long-term corporate growth and competitiveness through innovation. Specifically, these results are realized in terms of increased efficiency in energy use, improved waste management, community involvement and increased stakeholder satisfaction. The study concludes by emphasizing that the SSD-based ESGI Transformation Strategic framework provides a sustainable pathway for LMPSVs. In the future, the extension of this transformation strategy will help a wider range of industry sectors to achieve sustainable development goals, and has wide application potential and far-reaching social significance.

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“…For example, present efforts that push to reduce the carbon footprint in, e.g., energy production to reach current political climate targets through the introduction of photovoltaics [8] could unintentionally increase other impacts, such as marine ecotoxicity and mineral resource depletion. This type of decision-making instance with wide-reaching effects behooves clearer modes of communicating the implementation and the interpretation of supporting LCAs [9]. Effective and understandable results interpretation remains particularly challenging, with 500 corporate CEOs listing difficulty in interpreting results as the second greatest hindrance to use of decision support tools [10].…”

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“…Partly in response to the issue of stakeholder exclusion in decision making, a number of methodologies have been developed to involve non-experts in planning [11,12] and to include their voices in policy development [9,13]. When these processes include LCA, participatory methods should be used where possible in developing the LCA, and results should be presented clearly to support informed input from all stakeholders.…”

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Argumentation Corrected Context Weighting-Life Cycle Assessment: A Practical Method of Including Stakeholder Perspectives in Multi-Criteria Decision Support for LCA

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Despite advances in the data, models, and methods underpinning environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), it remains challenging for practitioners to effectively communicate and interpret results. These shortcomings can bias decisions and hinder public acceptance for planning supported by LCA. This paper introduces a method for interpreting LCA results, the Argumentation Corrected Context Weighting-LCA (ArgCW-LCA), to overcome these barriers. ArgCW-LCA incorporates stakeholder preferences, corrects unjustified disagreements, and allows for the inclusion of non-environmental impacts (e.g., economic, social, etc.) using a novel weighting scheme and the application of multi-criteria decision analysis to provide transparent and context-relevant decision support. We illustrate the utility of the method through two case studies: a hypothetical decision regarding energy production and a real-world decision regarding polyphenol extraction technologies. In each case, we surveyed a relevant stakeholder group on their environmental views and fed their responses into the model to provide decision support that is relevant to their perspective. We found marked differences between results using ArgCW-LCA and results from a conventional analysis using an equal-weighting scheme, as well as differentiation between stakeholder preference groups, indicating the importance of applying the perspective of the particular stakeholder group. For instance, there was a rank reversal of alternatives when comparing between an equal weighting approach for all environmental and economic dimensions and ArgCW-LCA. ArgCW-LCA provides opportunity for both public and private sector incorporation of LCA, such as in developing enlightened stakeholder value measures. This is achieved through enabling the LCA practition to provide public and private actors’ interpreted LCA results in a manner that incorporates educated stakeholder perspectives. Furthermore, the method encourages stakeholder multiplicity through participatory design and policymaking that can enhance public backing of actions that can make society more sustainable.

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Advancing life cycle sustainability assessment using multiple criteria decision making

Cited by 12 publications

References 64 publications

The environmental impacts of clothing: Evidence from United States and three European countries

The environmental impacts of clothing: Evidence from United States and three European countries

Sustainable System Development and Strategic Framework for ESGI Enterprise Transformation in Large Multi-purposes Sports Venues

Argumentation Corrected Context Weighting-Life Cycle Assessment: A Practical Method of Including Stakeholder Perspectives in Multi-Criteria Decision Support for LCA

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