The Future of Life Cycle Assessment

Hunkeler, David; Rebitzer, Gerald

doi:10.1065/lca2005.09.001

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“…extraction of the raw materials, pre-production processes, production, consumption, end-of-life) in a broad range of methodologies and instruments for sustainability assessment and management (Azapagic & Clift, 1999;European Commission, 2010;Finnveden et al, 2009;Heiskanen, 2002;Hunkeler & Rebitzer, 2005; www.intechopen.com Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production 249 Maxwell et al, 2006;Rebitzer & Buxmann, 2005;Rebitzer et al, 2004). Although LCT was initially conceived for products, it can also fit for services (De Camillis et al, 2008;Graedel, 1997;Petti & Tontodonati 2002;Raggi et al, 2008aRaggi et al, , 2008bRaggi & Petti 2006a;Raggi et al, 2005;Rosenblum et al, 2000).…”

Section: Life Cycle Thinking: Key Concepts and Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Camillis¹,

Peeters²,

Petti³

et al. 2012

Visions for Global Tourism Industry - Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies

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Section: Life Cycle Thinking: Key Concepts and Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Camillis¹,

Peeters²,

Petti³

et al. 2012

Visions for Global Tourism Industry - Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies

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“…The details of how to define and measure each indicator, availability and quality of necessary data, relation to process based inventories, and suitability of the indicator for decision-making at various levels are all worthy topics. The use of common process inventory data and models offers obvious synergies and would facilitate the use of life cycle methods in decisionmaking (Hunkeler 2006;Hunkeler and Rebitzer 2005). Verifying that social indicators can be linked to the functional unit through the same life cycle inventory data structures would be a valuable contribution.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…SLCA offers a rich landscape of potential research topics. It would be wise to conclude with a cautionary note from Hunkeler and Rebitzer (2005) that "(a)dditional levels of sophistication, and new models, should not neglect the needs and reality of decision making." We need simple but not simplistic approaches to scan a complex world and focus on those challenges that will best move us toward more sustainable business models (Klöpffer 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Numerous methodological challenges might lead us to question the feasibility of societal life cycle assessment (SLCA), even though a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) work group determined there were no fundamental barriers (Grießhammer et al 2006). Social concerns are highly diverse and have spawned more than 200 indicators that are weighted differently by different interest groups (Hunkeler and Rebitzer 2005). Many social indicators either describe impacts or behaviors that predispose a specific impact and not fundamental behaviors that would parallel flows in LCA .…”

Section: Can Social Impacts Be Quantified?mentioning

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Societal life cycle assessment—could you repeat the question?

Swarr¹

2009

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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“…Ideally social dimensions could be included in an LCA framework but this has proven difficult (35). One of the great challenges associated with social life cycle evaluations is the existence of several hundred indicators (37).…”

Section: The Pursuit Of Sustainability In Water Managementmentioning

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A New Planning and Design Paradigm to Achieve Sustainable Resource Recovery from Wastewater

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Skerlos

Barnard

et al. 2009

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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To employ technologies that sustainably harvest resources from wastewater (for example struvite granules shown here), new perceptions and infrastructure planning and design processes are required.Water and wastewater system decisions have been traditionally driven by considerations of function, safety, and cost-benefit analysis. The emphasis on costs and benefits would be acceptable if all relevant factors could be included in the analysis, but unfortunately many relevant factors are routinely excluded. Coupled with failures to fully engage the public in decision-making processes, this can impede progress toward achieving sustainable solutions. Ignoring broader social issues that impact the adoption of sustainable solutions prolongs not only global environmental and ecological problems, but also unjust public health and social conditions in the developing world.Within the water and wastewater management industry, discussions of sustainable development have often focused on water stress (1, 2): a hazard that is exacerbated by other global stressors such as climate change, demographic and land use changes, increasing population, and urbanization (2). In addition to water stress, water and wastewater management practices contribute to nutrient imbalances and a host of environmental detriments such as eutrophication (3), discharge of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants (4), and a loss of biodiversity in receiving streams (5). Efforts to address these issues across regional and global scales are hindered by the historical disconnect between the water quality and water quantity factions of the water profession. Although our understanding of sustainability is constantly evolving, the water and wastewater design process retains its foundation in engineering traditions established in the early 20th century (6). As we chart a path in the 21st century, we contend that wastewater contains resources worthy of recovering and that the development of

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The Future of Life Cycle Assessment

Cited by 109 publications

References 12 publications

Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Societal life cycle assessment—could you repeat the question?

A New Planning and Design Paradigm to Achieve Sustainable Resource Recovery from Wastewater

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