What Environmental Indicators in Life-Cycle Thinking Can Be Developed to Help Stakeholders at the Territorial Level
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 2518
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
3. APESA-Innovation, F-40220 Tarnos, France
Interests: mechanical engineering; industrial engineering; environmental engineering; life-cycle assessment; life-cycle impact assessment; material flow analysis
Interests: life-cycle assessment; life-cycle impact assessment method; aquatic and soil pollutions; engineered nanoparticles; denuclearization issues
Special Issue Information
Many methodologies exist in life-cycle impact assessment (LCIA) to assist with environmental evaluation in life-cycle assessment (LCA). Some of them are well known, recognized for many years by the LCA makers, whereas others are recommended by official institutions (e.g., Joint Research Center). However, one can identify many limitations in these methods, such as the non-consideration of temporal and/or regional aspects and the uncertainty of characterization factors. Moreover, if one considers that LCA should give recommendations to producers, in many cases, the traditional LCIA used are non-adapted and non-comprehensive for such a designer.
This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to highlight the latest innovations in the environmental indicators used in life-cycle assessment as well as indicators useful for stakeholders or actors of sustainable development to reduce environmental impact (e.g., dismantling rate, recycling rate). A relevant indicator should provide hints to stakeholders in order to shed light on ways to redesign a studied product or service or to respond to issues of sustainability.
This Special Issue aims to enlarge the usual scope of LCIA, including innovation with respect to the traditional LCIA indicators, as well as adapted indicators for the studied product or sector.
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue of Sustainability aims to gather the latest innovations regarding sustainable indicators for stakeholders. Today, in addition to environmental impact studies, environmental impact assessments can be conducted with a life-cycle assessment approach—a well-known and standardized method. However, many limitations have been identified (e.g., non-consideration of the temporal parameters) and can limit the understanding of the indicator by the stakeholders.
For this reason, we are developing this Special Issue showing the improvements of indicators contributing to help stakeholders to reduce environmental impacts. This Special Issue will cover traditional life-cycle impact assessment as well as highlight complementary indicators such as economical (e.g., circular economy) indicators, mechanical (e.g., dismantling) indicators, and so on.
Dr. Bertrand Laratte
Dr. Gaétana Quaranta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental indicator life-cycle impact assessment
- circular economy
- agent-based modeling
- dynamic life-cycle assessment
- material flow analysis
- design for X
