Life Cycle Assessment in Materials Engineering and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 10870
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The production, use and disposal of materials are a significant contributor to global and local environmental impacts. The use of life cycle assessment (LCA) continues to become more prevalent in research, industry and policy to address these environmental issues. However, the use and applicability of LCA is still limited by divergent modelling approaches, data gaps and challenges associated with variability across different scenarios and models.
This Special Issue aims to collect research papers which examine how these divergent issues could be addressed, in the context of materials engineering, to allow for a more fluid application of LCA to inform better environmental decisions.
Within the framework described above, this Special Issue invites authors to contribute with original research in the following fields:
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of LCAs;
- Streamlined LCA tools and approaches;
- Reconciliation and simplification of different LCA modelling approaches;
- Case-studies on how LCA has been used to affect positive environmental outcomes at different scales (e.g., micro- to macroscale changes);
- Case studies in policy change arising from LCA.
In this Special Issue, the focus will be on environmental life cycle assessment of materials systems, which should consider all life cycle stages. The research papers should report the theoretical background, methodology, results, analysis and implications for applications of the outcomes to make a meaningful impact. At the end of the publication process, the guest editor of this Special Issue will provide a synthesis to distil the key messages from the presented works into practical guidance points on how best to use LCA in materials engineering and how best to utilize and aggregate divergent data and methods to improve LCA utility.
Dr. Enda Crossin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Life cycle assessment
- Life cycle analysis
- Materials
- Systematic review
- Meta-analysis
- Case studies
- Life cycle tools (methodologies)
