Environmental Life Cycle Costing

“…According to Hunkeler et al [7], external costs expected to be internalized in the decision relevant future have to be monetized. But these "costs should reflect only real monetary flows that are covered by one or more actors in the product system" [24].…”

Section: Lcc Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors have conducted a combined case study using LCC and LCA on waste water treatment and have proposed some win-win recommendations that can improve the environmental and economic performance along the life cycle of waste water treatment. However, Hunkeler et al [7] have found that implementing these recommendations is hard to achieve without a collaboration between the actors.…”

Section: For Collaboration Between Foreground and Background Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It covers all real money flows associated with a product along its life cycle. Environmental LCC is defined as "an assessment of all costs associated with the life cycle of a product that are directly covered by any one or more of the actors in the product life cycle (e.g., supplier, manufacturer, user or consumer, or end of life actor) with complementary inclusion of externalities that are anticipated to be internalized in the decision-relevant future" [7]. LCC is used throughout this paper to refer to environmental life cycle costing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainability Improvements: A Case Study of High-Density Polyethylene Production in Alberta, Canada

Hannouf

Assefa

2017

Sustainability

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Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is a still relatively new technique. One of its main application challenges is interpreting the three dimensions of its results in combined fashion. This paper presents the first attempt at an integrated solution-oriented approach in the LCSA, while simultaneously interpreting the results of the three assessments in a combined fashion toward improving the sustainability performance of product systems. It is based on a case study of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) production in Alberta, Canada. The methodology is characterized by five steps: (1) goal and scope definition; (2) inventory analysis; (3) impact assessment; (4) interpretation where the results of the three tools of LCSA are presented and an integrated analysis of the sustainability results following the strong sustainability model and using the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework, is conducted to propose sustainability improvements for the case study product; (5) discussion and conclusion. The integrated approach developed was able to propose some sustainability improvement proposals along the life cycle of HDPE. Yet, challenges exist in interpreting the interrelationships between the three assessment results. Moving from comparative integrated assessment approach in LCSA to solution-oriented approach still faces challenges. This work highlighted some of the research tasks that need more focus from the LCSA community to demonstrate how LCSA can contribute to sustainable development by improving the sustainability performance of product systems.

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“…As is well known, LCA is a technique to assess environmental issues associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave, permitting an integral and integrated approach for measuring impacts of products and processes [10,11]. As indicated by the SETAC-Europe framework for Life-Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) [12], the methodology also has the potential to include both social and economic indicators. The inclusion of social and economic dimensions besides the impacts related only to the biophysical flows would create a framework that have the capacity to address the overall sustainability of a product or a process [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Based Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Agricultural Productions in the Mediterranean Area

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Abstract:In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to estimate the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of agricultural products or processes. Furthermore, including in the analysis an economic evaluation, from the perspective of an integrated life cycle approach, appears nowadays as a fundamental improvement. In particular, Life Cycle Costing (LCC), is a method that could integrate financial data and cost information with metrics of life cycle approaches. In this study, LCA in conjunction with LCC methods were used, with the aim to evaluate the main cost drivers-environmental and economic-of five widely diffused and market-valued agricultural productions (organic tomato and pear, integrated wheat, apple and chicory) and to combine the results in order to understand the long-term externalities impacts of agricultural productions. Data obtained in local assessment show a wide margin of improvement of resources management at farms level in the short-term, but also allow for the investigation of future effects of environmental impacts not expressed in product price on the market. Reaching a real sustainable model for agriculture could be a value added approach firstly for farmers, but also for all the people who live in rural areas or use agricultural products.

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Environmental Life Cycle Costing

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A through-life costing methodology for use in product–service-systems

A through-life costing methodology for use in product–service-systems

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainability Improvements: A Case Study of High-Density Polyethylene Production in Alberta, Canada

Life Cycle Based Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Agricultural Productions in the Mediterranean Area

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