Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Decision-Making: Methodologies and Case Studies

by Jingzheng Ren (Editor), Sara Toniolo (Editor)

Overview

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Decision-Making: Methodologies and Case Studies gives readers a comprehensive introduction to life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) methodology for sustainability measurement of industrial systems, proposing an efficiency methodology for stakeholders and decision-makers. Featuring the latest methods and case studies, the book will assist researchers in environmental sciences and energy to develop the best methods for LCA, as well as aiding those practitioners who are responsible for making decisions for promoting sustainable development.

The past, current status and future of LCSA, Life Cycle Assessment method (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA), the methodology of LCSA, typical LCSA case studies, limitations of LCSA, and life cycle aggregated sustainability index methods are all covered in this multidisciplinary book.

• Includes models for assessing sustainability in environmental, energy engineering and economic scenarios
• Features case studies that help define the advantages and obstacles of real world applications
• Presents a complete view, from theory to practice, of a life cycle approach by exploring the methods and tools of sustainability assessment, analysis and design of sustainability assessment

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128183564
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	362
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Jingzheng Ren is Assistant Professor of Modelling for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been nominated as adjunct/honorary associate professor of University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and associated senior research fellow of the Institute for Security&Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ren serves as board member of several scientific journals and published more than 150 papers, authored 1 book, edited more than 10 books and published more than 40 book chapters. His research focuses on process system engineering for better sustainability and mathematical models for solving energy and environmental problems and promoting sustainability transition
Dr. Toniolo is a researcher in the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), sustainability management and assessment. She is an active member in Italian LCA Network on the definition of LCA approaches for the tourism sector. She has written several papers on LCA with a focus on methodological aspects concerning the development of life cycle inventories and the application of case studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction-Life Cycle Thinking 2. Sustainability, sustainable development and business sustainability 3. Life cycle thinking tools: Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Social Life Cycle Assessment 4. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: an ongoing journey 5. Development and Applicability of Life Cycle Impact Assessment methodologies 6. Life Cycle Thinking for Sustainable Development in the Building Industry 7. MCDM for sustainability ranking of district heating systems considering uncertainties 8. Framework of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment 9. Life Cycle Decision Support Framework: Method and Case Study 10. Advancing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making 11. A Composite Life Cycle Sustainability Index for Sustainability Prioritization of Industrial Systems 12. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Decision-Making under Uncertainties 13. Multi-Criteria Decision Making After Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Under Hybrid Information 14. Life Cycle Sustainability Decision-making framework for the prioritization of electrochemical energy storage under uncertainties 15. Barriers Identification and Prioritization for Sustainability Enhancement: Promoting the Sustainable Development of Desalination Industry 16. Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis, Weighting Methods and Life Cycle Thinking: A Quantitative Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Improvement

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A comprehensive introduction to the benefits and challenges of life cycle assessment for sustainable development