Towards More Holistic Environmental Impact Assessment: Hybridisation of Life Cycle Assessment and Quantitative Risk Assessment

Kobayashi, Yumi; Peters, Gregory; Khan, Stuart J.

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2015.01.064

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“…Despite the high resolution on individual processes and technologies, process-based LCA is nevertheless often applied to provide a broad perspective, e.g., for global impact evaluation [80] as shown in Figure S3 in Supplementary Materials. However, many local impacts occur in the WM sector, such as odor, noise, etc., which are highly relevant for those living nearby the treatment facilities.…”

Section: A Life Cycle Assessment (Lca)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development

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Waste management represents a challenge for public authorities due to many reasons such as increased waste generation following urban population growth, economic burdens imposed on the municipal budget, and nuisances inevitably caused to the environment and local inhabitants. To optimize the system from a sustainability perspective, moving the transition towards a more circular economy, a better understanding of the different stages of waste management is necessary. A review of recently developed sustainability frameworks for waste management showed that no single framework captures all the instruments needed to ultimately provide a solid basis for comprehensive analyses of the potential burdens associated with urban waste management. Bearing this limitation in mind, the objective of this research is to propose a conceptual and comprehensive sustainability framework to support decision-making in waste management of European cities. The framework comprises a combination of methods capable of identifying future strategies and scenarios, to assess different types of impacts based on a life cycle perspective, and considers the value of waste streams, the actors involved, and possible constraints of implementing scenarios. The social, economic, environmental, technical and political domains are covered, and special attention is paid to impacts affecting foremost the local population.

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Section: A Life Cycle Assessment (Lca)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development

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“…The debate on the relationships between RA and LCA has been going on now for over two decades [38][39][40][41][42] . The main topics discussed include how RA expertise and models can be used within the framework of LCA [43][44][45][46][47] , how to include metal-specific models 48 , metabolites 49 , spatial differentiation [50][51][52][53][54] and multi-substance impacts 55 , and how to define and develop new approaches for pollutants is not yet covered [56][57] .…”

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“…As discussed above, RA and LCA approach environmental issues from different perspectives, and they thus provide complementary information 61 and possibly lead to conflicting conclusions 42 . For instance, an RA with a focus on the laundry process and nanosilver might conclude that traditional socks are to be preferred over those containing nanosilver, whereas the LCA might end up with the opposite answer due to impacts related to the high energy use of the nanosilver production process and less laundry impacts due to the assumption that nanosilver socks are washed less.…”

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Setting the stage for debating the roles of risk assessment and life-cycle assessment of engineered nanomaterials

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Although technological and environmental benefits are important stimuli for nanotechnology development, these technologies have been contested from an environmental point of view. The steady growth of applications of engineered nanomaterials has heated up the debate on quantifying the environmental repercussions. The two main scientific methods to address these environmental repercussions are risk assessment and life-cycle assessment. The strengths and weaknesses of each of these methods, and the relation between them, have been a topic of debate in the world of traditional chemistry for over two decades. Here we review recent developments in this debate in general and for the emerging field of nanomaterials specifically. We discuss the pros and cons of four schools of thought for combining and integrating risk assessment and life-cycle assessment and conclude with a plea for action.

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“…Holistic approach Spatial scale [17][18][19] SD X X [20][21][22] Multi-criteria analysis -X [23][24][25] Risk analysis -X [26,27] Cost-benefit analysis -- [28][29][30] Environmental impact assessment -X…”

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A Systemic Conceptual Model to Support Decision-Making in the Sustainability Assessment of Industrial Ecosystems

Mota-López¹,

Sánchez-Ramírez²,

Alor-Hernández³

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One of the main challenges for companies is to operate in a sustainable way, that is, by protecting the ecosystems where they are located. As a result of such a challenge, different tools and models have been developed to assess their environmental impact and to help decision makers to define strategies to become more sustainable. However, most of these tools have concentrated on the internal parameters of the companies and have failed to assess the actual impact caused on the ecosystem. Therefore, this article proposes a conceptual model to analyze the environmental risks from companies and evaluate their impact on their ecosystems. Results obtained are: 1) a methodology to assess environmental risks and their impact on the environment and 2) a causal loop diagram that identifies the relationships between the industries and its environment, showing that the company's production rate is the key variable, since it determines the amount of both resources consumed and pollutants emitted, so its balance must be achieved in order to preserve the environment, which, otherwise, will collapse.

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Towards More Holistic Environmental Impact Assessment: Hybridisation of Life Cycle Assessment and Quantitative Risk Assessment

Cited by 29 publications

References 41 publications

A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development

A Holistic Sustainability Framework for Waste Management in European Cities: Concept Development

Setting the stage for debating the roles of risk assessment and life-cycle assessment of engineered nanomaterials

A Systemic Conceptual Model to Support Decision-Making in the Sustainability Assessment of Industrial Ecosystems

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