Measuring sustainability: Life cycle approach to regional sustainability assessment on electricity options

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianqi Li ◽  
Yaodong Wang ◽  
Anthony Paul Roskilly
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Regional Sustainability

scholarly journals Visualization of the Sustainability Level of Crude Palm Oil Production: A Life Cycle Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1607
Author(s):  
Najat Omran ◽  
Amir Hamzah Sharaai ◽  
Ahmad Hariza Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Crude Palm Oil

The Malaysian palm oil is an important source of social development and economic growth in the country. Nevertheless, it has been accused of conducting unsustainable practices that may affect the sustainability of this industry. Thus, this study aims to identify the level of sustainability of crude palm oil (CPO) production. Environmental impacts were assessed using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standardized life cycle assessment (LCA). Economic impacts were evaluated using life cycle costing (LCC). Social impact assessment was identified based on the UNEP/SETAC Guidelines for social life cycle assessment (S-LCA). Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) was used to combine three methods: LCA, life cycle costing (LCC) and S-LCA using the scoring system method. Finally, a presentation technique was developed to visualize the LCSA results. The results show that crude palm oil production requires more improvement to be a sustainable product. The study feasibly enables the decision-makers to understand the significant environmental, economic, and social hotspots during the crude palm oil production process in order to promote palm oil production.

scholarly journals Sustainability assessment of technologies by taking a life-cycle approach

Socio hu ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-43
Author(s):  
Anna Vári ◽  
Zoltán Ferenc ◽  
Zoltán Kárpáti
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Approach

scholarly journals A Methodological Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Construction Projects Incorporating TBL and Decoupling Principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Shivam Srivastava ◽  
Usha Iyer Raniga ◽  
Sudhir Misra
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Environmental Pressure ◽  
Economic Well Being

The triple bottom line (TBL) principle encompasses the idea of continued economic and social well-being with minimal or reduced environmental pressure. However, in construction projects, the integration of social, economic, and environmental dimensions from the TBL perspective remains challenging. Green building rating tools/schemes, such as Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), Building Research Establishment Environment Assessment (BREEAM), and their criteria, which serve as a yardstick in ensuring sustainability based practices and outcomes, are also left wanting. These green building rating tools/schemes not only fail to comprehensively evaluate the three dimensions (social, economic, and environment) and interaction therewith, but also lack in capturing a life cycle approach towards sustainability. Therefore, this study intends to address the aforementioned challenges. The first part of this study presents the concept of sustainable construction as a system of well-being decoupling and impact decoupling. Findings in the first part of this study provide a rationale for developing a methodological framework that not only encapsulates a TBL based life cycle approach to sustainability assessment in construction, but also evaluates interactions among social and economic well-being, and environmental pressure. In methodological framework development, two decoupling indices were developed, namely, the phase well-being decoupling index (PWBDIK) and phase impact decoupling index (PIDIK). PWBDIK and PIDIK support the evaluation of interdependence among social and economic well-being, and the environmental pressure associated with construction projects in different life cycle phases. The calculation underpinning the proposed framework was illustrated using three hypothetical cases by adopting criteria from GRIHA Precertification and GRIHA v.2019 schemes. The results of these cases depict how the interactions among different dimensions (social, economic, and environment) vary as they move from one phase to another phase in a life cycle. The methodological framework developed in this study can be tailored to suit the sustainability assessment requirements for different phases and typologies of construction in the future.

Life Cycle Perspective for Improving Sustainable Supply Chain Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Burchart-Korol ◽  
Magdalena Graczyk ◽  
Krzysztof Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain Management ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective

This paper presents the supply chain management with life cycle approach and direction of improving sustainable supply chain management. The main aim of this paper is to implicate of life cycle perspective across the supply chain, to show importance of this concept. This paper provides an overview of the current status of sustainability assessment methodology and its applicability for extended supply chain. Life cycle approaches to supply chain and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for improving sustainable supply chain were developed in this paper.

Life cycle approach in sustainability assessment for petroleum refinery projects with fuzzy-AHP

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1208-1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Hasheminasab ◽  
Yaghob Gholipour ◽  
Mohammadreza Kharrazi ◽  
Dalia Streimikiene
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Petroleum Refinery ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Life Cycle Stage ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Wide Range

Infrastructure projects, which include a wide range of construction and energy projects, play an important role amid other industrial projects. In this regard, petroleum refinery industry projects are one of the leading manufacturing industries in the world and have the most notable position in the energy industry projects. Developing petroleum refinery industry projects are one of the principal contributors to economic and social development. In spite of the necessity of country development, this development has to be sustained at least in economic, social, and environmental matters (pillars of sustainable development) particularly after the Brundtland Commission Report in 1987. In this paper, it is proposed to simplify the evaluation process of life cycle sustainability versus life cycle stages. Thus, an indicator-based approach is used in order to evaluate the sustainability along different stages of petroleum refinery industry projects. Also, a multi-level hierarchy of criteria decision making is defined by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), combined with a fuzzy set theory to enhance the reliability of the results. The outputs of this paper will be helpful for decision makers in many ways such as the most important stage with regard to sustainable development matters; or the most important pillars (economic, social, and environmental) of sustainability in each life cycle stage. Also, other valuable outputs based on the results are consequently discussed.

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Fugitive Dust Control Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 04020181
Author(s):  
Alena J. Raymond ◽  
Alissa Kendall ◽  
Jason T. DeJong ◽  
Edward Kavazanjian ◽  
Miriam A. Woolley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Dust Control ◽  
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Fugitive Dust
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