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Lifset, Reid J. "Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment: What´s the Use?" International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 11, S1 (January 2006): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/lca2006.04.006.

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Matthews, H. Scott. "The Life-Cycle Assessmentv and Industrial Ecology Communities." Journal of Industrial Ecology 11, no. 4 (October 2007): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jiec.2007.1417.

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Anastas, Paul T., and Rebecca L. Lankey. "Life cycle assessment and green chemistry: the yin and yang of industrial ecology." Green Chemistry 2, no. 6 (2000): 289–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b005650m.

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LIFSET, Reid. "Environmentally Conscious Engineering and Eco-Design. Industrial Ecology: Building a Framework for Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment." Journal of Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging 3, no. 5 (2000): 403–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5104/jiep.3.403.

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Lauesen, Linne Marie. "Sustainable investment evaluation by means of life cycle assessment." Social Responsibility Journal 15, no. 3 (May 7, 2019): 347–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-03-2018-0054.

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Purpose Sustainability investors are in need of updated standards, indexes and in general better tools and instruments to facilitate company information on its impacts on people, planet and profit. Such instruments to reveal reliable, independent metrics and indicators to evaluate companies’ performances on sustainability exist, however, in research fields that previously have not been used extensively, for instance, life cycle assessments (LCAs). ISO 14001:2015 has implemented life cycle perspective, however, without being explicitly clear on which methodology is preferred. This paper aims to investigate LCA as to improve companies’ transparency towards sustainability investors through a literature review on sustainable investment evaluation. Design/methodology/approach The literature review is conducted through the search engine Google Scholar, which to date hosts the most comprehensive academic database across other databases such as Scopus, ISI Web of Knowledge, Science Direct, etc. Search words such as “Sustainable finance”, “Sustainable Investments”, “Performance metrics”, “Life cycle assessment”, “LCA”, “Environmental Management Systems”, “EMS” and “Environmental Profit and Loss Account” were used. Special journals that publish research on LCA such as International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Industrial Ecology were also investigated in-depth. Findings The combination of using LCA in, for instance, environmental profit and loss accounts studied in this paper shows a comprehensive and reliable tool for sustainability investors, as well as for social responsibility standards such as ISO 14001, ISO 26000, UN Global Compact, GIIN, IRIS and GRI to incorporate. With a LCA-based hybrid input-output account, both upstream and downstream’s impact on the environment and society can be assessed by companies to attract more funding from sustainability investors such as shareholders, governments and intergovernmental bodies. Research limitations/implications The literature review is based on publicly disclosed academic papers as well as five displayed company Environmental Profit and Loss accounts from the Kering Group, PUMA, Stella McCartney company, Novo Nordisk and Arla Group. Other company experiences with integration of LCA as a reporting tool have not been found, yet it is not to conclude that these five companies are the only ones to work extensively with LCA. Practical implications The paper may contribute to the clarification of LCA-thinking and perspective implementation in both ISO 14001 and ISO 26000, as well as in other social responsibility standards such as the UN Global Compact, the Global Impact Investing Networks, IRIS performance metrics, the Global Reporting Initiative and others. Originality/value The paper is one of the first that evaluates LCA and environmental profit and loss accounts for sustainability investors, as well as for consideration of implementation in social responsibility standards such as the ISO 14001 and ISO 26000, as well as in other social responsibility standards such as the UN Global Compact, the Global Impact Investing Networks, IRIS performance metrics and the Global Reporting Initiative.

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Iswanto, Iswanto, D. R. Nurrochmat, and U. J. Siregar. "Life Cycle Assessment of Wood Pellet Product at Korintiga Hutani company, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia." Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika (Journal of Tropical Forest Management) 27, no. 3 (December 14, 2021): 200–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.7226/jtfm.27.3.200.

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Climate change has forced human being to adapt in fulfilling their energy needs sustainably. In Indonesia, forestry activities has been considered as an emission rather than carbon sink. This study aims to analyze the inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts of wood pellet production in a forest company using life cycle assessment (LCA). The wood pellet is made from Eucalyptus pellita plantation. Analysis was made for 1 planting cycle or 6 years, and allometric equations were used to estimate the ability of industrial timber plantation forest to absorb CO2. Production of wood pellet starting from plantation requires inputs as follows: diesel fuel, electricity, NPK and other fertilizers, pesticides, and electrical energy. Those inputs produced emissions, of which the largest was N2O of 551.2927 kg, followed by NH3 of 7.5275 kg generated from NPK fertilizer. Another was PO43- amounted at 0.1792–0.2229 kg from liquid fertilizers and pesticides. Potential acidification came from 13.3675 kg SO2 eq, and eutrophication of 0.4021 kg PO43- eq. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emission was 678.0270 kg CO2 eq from the plantation activities, especially from diesel-based energy consumption, while wood pellet mills only released 0.1053 kg CO2 eq of GHG emissions. Thus, total emissions from 6 years' time of wood pellet production are much lower compared to the average CO2 absorbed by the plantation forest, of which annually is 36.34–67.69 ton ha-1year-1.

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Barahmand, Zahir, and Marianne S. Eikeland. "A Scoping Review on Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of the Gasification Processes." Environments 9, no. 7 (July 12, 2022): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments9070092.

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In recent years, computer-based simulations have been used to enhance production processes, and sustainable industrial strategies are increasingly being considered in the manufacturing industry. In order to evaluate the performance of a gasification process, the Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) technique gathers relevant impact assessment tools to offer quantitative indications across different domains. Following the PRISMA guidelines, the present paper undertakes a scoping review of gasification processes’ environmental, economic, and social impacts to reveal how LCT approaches coping with sustainability. This report categorizes the examined studies on the gasification process (from 2017 to 2022) through the lens of LCT, discussing the challenges and opportunities. These studies have investigated a variety of biomass feedstock, assessment strategies and tools, geographical span, bioproducts, and databases. The results show that among LCT approaches, by far, the highest interest belonged to life cycle assessment (LCA), followed by life cycle cost (LCC). Only a few studies have addressed exergetic life cycle assessment (ELCA), life cycle energy assessment (LCEA), social impact assessment (SIA), consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA), and water footprint (WLCA). SimaPro® (PRé Consultants, Netherlands), GaBi® (sphere, USA), and OpenLCA (GreenDelta, Germany) demonstrated the greatest contribution. Uncertainty analysis (Monte Carlo approach and sensitivity analysis) was conducted in almost half of the investigations. Most importantly, the results confirm that it is challenging or impossible to compare the environmental impacts of the gasification process with other alternatives since the results may differ based on the methodology, criteria, or presumptions. While gasification performed well in mitigating negative environmental consequences, it is not always the greatest solution compared to other technologies.

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Wang, Shuyi, Daizhong Su, and You Wu. "Environmental and social life cycle assessments of an industrial LED lighting product." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 95 (July 2022): 106804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106804.

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Sakhlecha, Manish, Samir Bajpai, and Rajesh Kumar Singh. "Evaluating the Environmental Impact Score of a Residential Building Using Life Cycle Assessment." International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 10, no. 4 (October 2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.2019100101.

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Buildings consume major amount of energy as well as natural resources leading to negative environmental impacts like resource depletion and pollution. The current task for the construction sector is to develop an evaluation tool for rating of buildings based on their environmental impacts. There are various assessment tools and models developed by different agencies in different countries to evaluate building's effect on environment. Although these tools have been successfully used and implemented in the respective regions of their origin, the problems of application occur, especially during regional adaptation in other countries due to peculiarities associated with the specific geographic location, climatic conditions, construction methods and materials. India is a rapidly growing economy with exponential increase in housing sector. Impact assessment model for a residential building has been developed based on life cycle assessment (LCA) framework. The life cycle impact assessment score was obtained for a sample house considering fifteen combinations of materials paired with 100% thermal electricity and 70%-30% thermal-solar combination, applying normalization and weighting to the LCA results. The LCA score of portland slag cement with burnt clay red brick and 70%-30% thermal-solar combination (PSC+TS+RB) was found to have the best score and ordinary Portland cement with flyash brick and 100% thermal power (OPC+T+FAB) had the worst score, showing the scope for further improvement in LCA model to include positive scores for substitution of natural resources with industrial waste otherwise polluting the environment.

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Gerber, Léda, Samira Fazlollahi, and François Maréchal. "A systematic methodology for the environomic design and synthesis of energy systems combining process integration, Life Cycle Assessment and industrial ecology." Computers & Chemical Engineering 59 (December 2013): 2–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2013.05.025.

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Paolotti, Luisa, Lucia Rocchi, and Antonio Boggia. "Environmental Assessment of the Fresh Sausage Transformation Process in the Italian Context: An LCA Study." Environmental and Climate Technologies 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 484–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2022-0037.

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Abstract The problem of Climate Change and the related issues of greenhouse emissions, and energy consumption are among the most debated topics nowadays at international level. It is essential to find viable solutions also in the agri-food sector, moving towards production processes that were more sustainable, energy saver, and possibly follow a circular economy approach. The Circular Economy is not fully a brand-new concept, as it is based on a combination of fundamental and founding concepts such as Industrial Ecology, Regenerative Design, Natural Capitalism, Cradle to Cradle approach and Blue Economy. However, the novelty is in the attention that this concept is gaining among business practitioners, consultancy firms, governments, NGOs and associations, and academics. The aim of this study is to perform a Life Cycle Assessment related to one of the main products of a company of the agri-food sector in central Italy. The product analysed was fresh sausage and the functional unit considered was 100 kg of fresh sausage. The analysis was performed in order to identify the environmental impacts caused by the different transformation processes along the product life cycle, to highlight the critical phases and to plan improvements in terms of efficiency of the production process, with consequent improvement of the environmental performance. Particular attention was paid to the transport and to the energy consumption phases.

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Alekseev, V. R., and A. A. Khozyaykin. "Effect of low-level industrial heating on seasonal cycle transformation in cladocerans." Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 313, no. 1 (March 25, 2009): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2009.313.1.10.

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We studied effects of a low-level industrial heating caused by heating-electric power station on changes in seasonal adaptations in cladocerans inhabiting the Kama River Reservoir (the Volga River tributary). The biological significance of low-level industrial heating was analyzed by comparison of two stations: one with natural temperatures and another one affected by cooling water from the Kama Heating-Electric Power Station. We found that even relatively low (less than 2°C) difference in seasonal temperature between these two stations resulted in changes of reproductive mode in the most abundant species of Cladocera (Bosmina longirostris (Muller, 1785), Daphnia longispina Muller, 1785, and Diaphanosoma brachyurum sensu lato). At station with low heating, all species of cladocerans had some negative changes in their seasonal life cycles (sex proportion, resting egg production etc) with following disturbances in their over-wintering adaptations. Our results on early appearance and increasing of male proportion in population structure caused by industrial heating can be used for assessment of negative consequences of low-level industrial heating and global climate changes. With help of modeling, these data can be used for creation a new methods of prognosis both in global and local scales. It was finally resumed that low-level industrial heating, similar in scale to those observed during last decades under climate changes, leads to significant declining in population density and productivity in dominant species of cladocerans.

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Asselin, Anne, Suzanne Rabaud, Caroline Catalan, Benjamin Leveque, Jacques L’Haridon, Patricia Martz, and Guillaume Neveux. "Product Biodiversity Footprint – A novel approach to compare the impact of products on biodiversity combining Life Cycle Assessment and Ecology." Journal of Cleaner Production 248 (March 2020): 119262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119262.

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Peralta Álvarez, Maria Estela, Francisco Aguayo González, Juan Ramón Lama Ruíz, and María Jesús Ávila Gutiérrez. "MGE2: A framework for cradle-to-cradle design." DYNA 82, no. 191 (June 22, 2015): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v82n191.43263.

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Design and ecology are critical issues in the industrial sector. Products are subject to constant review and optimization for survival in the market, and limited by their impact on the planet. Decisions about a new product affect its life cycle, consumers, and especially the environment. In order to achieve quality solutions, eco-effectiveness must be considered, therefore, in the design of a process, its product development and associated system. An orderly methodology is essential to help towards creating products that meet both user needs and current environmental requirements, under paradigms that create environmental value. To date, the industry has developed techniques in an attempt to address these expectations under Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C), which is loosely structured around the conceptual frameworks and design techniques. The present work describes a new framework that encompasses all stages of design, and enables interaction under a set of principles developed for C2C. Under this innovative new paradigm emerges the Genomic Model of Eco-innovation and Eco-design, proposed as a methodology for designing products that meet individual and collective needs, and which enables the design of eco-friendly products, by integrating them into the framework of the ISO standards of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), eco-design, eco-labeling, and C2C certification.

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Imasiku, Katundu, and Valerie M. Thomas. "The Mining and Technology Industries as Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Development." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (December 12, 2020): 10410. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410410.

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The potential for mining companies to contribute to sustainable energy development is characterized in terms of opportunities for energy efficiency and support of electricity access in mining-intensive developing countries. Through a case study of the Central African Copperbelt countries of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, energy efficiency opportunities in copper operations and environmental impact of metal extraction are evaluated qualitatively, characterized, and quantified using principles of industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, and engineering economics. In these countries the mining sector is the greatest consumer of electricity, accounting for about 53.6% in the region. Energy efficiency improvements in the refinery processes is shown to have a factor of two improvement potential. Further, four strategies are identified by which the mining and technology industries can enhance sustainable electricity generation capacity: energy efficiency; use of solar and other renewable resources; share expertise from the mining and technology industries within the region; and take advantage of the abundant cobalt and other raw materials to initiate value-added manufacturing.

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de Bortoli, Anne, Adélaïde Féraille, and Fabien Leurent. "Towards Road Sustainability—Part I: Principles and Holistic Assessment Method for Pavement Maintenance Policies." Sustainability 14, no. 3 (January 28, 2022): 1513. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031513.

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Assessing the holistic sustainability of public policies remains a challenge rarely taken up due to a lack of adequate assessing methods. Frequently, only environmental and/or financial aspects are addressed, rather than the three pillars, including macro- and micro-economic as well as social performance. This paper presents an assessment method to fully compare the performance of pavement resurfacing policies for all its stakeholders and considering pavement–vehicle interactions. First, an analytical and then systemic approach to road maintenance highlights all its stakeholders, and a complete set of sustainability indicators is proposed to quantify the various impacts of maintenance programs: tax revenues, road operator’s and users’ savings, domestic production and employment, net present value, users’ time savings and noise reduction health benefits, as well as protection of natural resources, biodiversity and human health. Second, specific physical models of road condition (International Roughness Index) and its role in pavement–vehicle interaction in terms of vehicle consumption and wear as well as traffic noise are introduced. Then, equations to calculate these indicators are presented based on a comparison of existing assessment methods. The final transdisciplinary method pulls from road engineering, industrial ecology, acoustics and economics. It especially combines environmental and economic life cycle assessments and economic input–output analysis, as well as financial and socioeconomic appraisals. Finally, this article takes up the interdisciplinary challenge of building a fully holistic assessment method to help decision makers properly address sustainability, and its general algorithm can be adapted to assess a variety of transportation policies.

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Fréon, Pierre, Angel Avadí, Wilbert Marin Soto, and Richard Negrón. "Environmentally extended comparison table of large- versus small- and medium-scale fisheries: the case of the Peruvian anchoveta fleet." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 71, no. 10 (October 2014): 1459–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0542.

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Literature on small-scale fisheries usually depicts them as preferable over large-scale–industrial fisheries regarding societal benefits (jobs, jobs per investment) and relative fuel efficiency (e.g., Thomson 1980 ). We propose an environmentally extended Thomson table for comparing the Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) fleets of purse seiners, backed up by methodological information and augmented with life cycle assessment (LCA)-based environmental performance information, as a more comprehensive device for comparing fleets competing for the same resource pool. Findings from LCA and a previous study on the anchoveta steel fleet together allowed characterizing the whole Peruvian anchoveta fishery. These results, along with socio-economic indicators, are used to build an environmentally extended Thomson table of the fleet’s main segments: the steel industrial, the wooden industrial, and the wooden small- and medium-scale (SMS) fleets. In contrast with the world figure, the Peruvian SMS fleets show a fuel performance nearly two times worse than the industrial fleets, due to economies of scale of the latter (although the small-scale segment itself (<10 m3) performs similarly to the industrial steel fleet). Furthermore, the absolute number of jobs provided by the industrial fisheries is much larger in Peru than those provided by the SMS fisheries. This is due to the relatively larger development of the industrial fishery, but as in previous studies, the SMS fleets generate more employment per tonne landed than the industrial fleet, as well as more food fish and less discards at sea.

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Gaidajis, Georgios, and Ilias Kakanis. "Evaluating the benefits of a potential industrial symbiosis network within the boundaries of a protected area, using the method of life cycle assessment." Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 14, no. 3/4 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/pie.2020.10035287.

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Kakanis, Ilias, and George Gaidajis. "Evaluating the benefits of a potential industrial symbiosis network within the boundaries of a protected area, using the method of life cycle assessment." Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 14, no. 3/4 (2020): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/pie.2020.113434.

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Kostal, Jakub, Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Paul T. Anastas, and Julie Beth Zimmerman. "Identifying and designing chemicals with minimal acute aquatic toxicity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 20 (March 17, 2014): 6289–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314991111.

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Industrial ecology has revolutionized our understanding of material stocks and flows in our economy and society. For this important discipline to have even deeper impact, we must understand the inherent nature of these materials in terms of human health and the environment. This paper focuses on methods to design synthetic chemicals to reduce their intrinsic ability to cause adverse consequence to the biosphere. Advances in the fields of computational chemistry and molecular toxicology in recent decades allow the development of predictive models that inform the design of molecules with reduced potential to be toxic to humans or the environment. The approach presented herein builds on the important work in quantitative structure–activity relationships by linking toxicological and chemical mechanistic insights to the identification of critical physical–chemical properties needed to be modified. This in silico approach yields design guidelines using boundary values for physiochemical properties. Acute aquatic toxicity serves as a model endpoint in this study. Defining value ranges for properties related to bioavailability and reactivity eliminates 99% of the chemicals in the highest concern for acute aquatic toxicity category. This approach and its future implementations are expected to yield very powerful tools for life cycle assessment practitioners and molecular designers that allow rapid assessment of multiple environmental and human health endpoints and inform modifications to minimize hazard.

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Verma, Neha, and Vinay Sharma. "An I4.0 Review on Lean Green and Six Sigma Based on Energy Parameter." International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 12, no. 3 (July 2021): 30–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.2021070103.

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There is a corresponding and complementary relationship among the three manufacturing techniques/processes—lean, green, and six-sigma—in premise of Industry 4.0. The three manufacturing techniques assist the managers for big data analysis of industrial wastes/byproducts and its corresponding influences over industries. The practiced manufacturing techniques are functioning for managing and controlling wastes, operations, and quality of product, respectively. It is perceived that lean especially focus is to recognize the several wastes, produced by miscellaneous organizational practices in premise of Industry 4.0. On the other hand, green assists the managers to map the environmental practices/consequences. The present research focuses attention on ‘greening' through life cycle assessment to fill this gap and to assess the environmental impacts of the generated waste. Nevertheless, lean and green when conjoined become enabling to identify the waste and evaluate environmental impact but both encompass no motive to reduce the enhanced quality of product and reducing micro level wastes. Six-sigma is exhibited as the preeminent methods in order to overcome the determined gaps in present research work.

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Mohr, Marit, Jens F. Peters, Manuel Baumann, and Marcel Weil. "Corrigendum to Mohr, M., Peters, J.F., Baumann, M., and Weil, M. (2020). Toward a cell‐chemistry specific life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling processes. Journal of Industrial Ecology 24(6): 1310‐1322." Journal of Industrial Ecology 25, no. 2 (February 10, 2021): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13108.

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Koblianska, Inna. "Ecologically related transformation of the logistics theory: directions and content." Environmental Economics 9, no. 4 (January 24, 2019): 44–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.09(4).2018.04.

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In the context of sustainable development, the need to improve the models of functioning and development of society, as well as the scientific knowledge underlying them is urgent. In particular, an ecologically oriented improvement of logistics science is needed to ensure the full use of its tools to resolve the modern socio-ecological and economic problems of resource use. In this regard, it is important to identify the directions and content of the ecologically related transformation of theoretical and methodological foundations of logistics, which is the purpose of this article. The paper outlines the main directions of logistic theory change in the context of the sustainable development paradigm. These changes embrace the improvement of the methodological basis of logistic science on the ground of provisions of ecological economics, environmental ethics, and principles of industrial ecology, etc. As a result, modern logistic management goals and objectives include environmental and social targets, and wider interpretation of material flow allows to manage the waste, emissions, secondary materials, and flaw components. The improvement of a methodical framework of logistic decision-making is associated with the environmentally adjusted calculation and analysis of total costs, proceeding from the assessment of environmental aspects of flow processes through the use of material flows analysis and life cycle assessment tools. Thus, the conceptual provisions of logistics may be used to solve various tasks in the context of sustainable development, in particular: to minimize the negative environmental impact of certain production process, enterprise, network (supply chain), as well as to form the regulatory framework for the promotion of ecoindustrial parks.

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Chmykhalova, S. V. "Loss prevention and safety improvement in the mining industry: main directions." Mining informational and analytical bulletin, no. 6-1 (May 20, 2020): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25018/0236-1493-2020-61-0-146-153.

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Preventing losses and reducing possible hazards is the most urgent and important task in mining. Implementation of this task occurs throughout the entire life cycle of mining production, starting from the development of project documentation and ending with the stage of modernization or liquidation of spent mining production. For mining production as a dangerous production facility [1], it is necessary to develop a modern methodology for risk assessment, accident identification for subsequent analysis, development and implementation of measures to reduce it in the production process. To solve this problem, the most promising method is the analysis of technogenic risk, which must be developed in relation to mining facilities. methods and means of mining. Mineral resources are part of the natural environment, the impact on the natural environment is provided by technical equipment and technological processes necessary for the extraction of minerals [2]. For risk analysis, mining production must be represented as a complex system consisting of the following subsystems: natural; technological; technical; organizational, social, psychological, etc. This study examines natural and technological risks. For each subsystem, factors affecting the probability of accidents and the amount of expected damage are analyzed, and then measures to reduce the risk are proposed. Risk assessment should be part of a comprehensive approach to business management. A systematic and comprehensive approach to risk assessment will allow you to take possible measures to eliminate (reduce) the risk. A systematic approach to risk assessment helps to prevent losses and improve safety in the mining industry by taking better account of possible situations, identifying those responsible for the risk, prioritizing the urgency of execution, and evaluating the risk justification scale.

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Potting, José, Wolfgang Schöpp, Kornelis Blok, and Michael Hauschild. "Comparison of the acidifying impact from emissions with different regional origin in life-cycle assessment1A full version of this article will appear in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 2(2), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.1." Journal of Hazardous Materials 61, no. 1-3 (August 1998): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3894(98)00119-8.

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Baumann, Henrikke, and Tomas Rydberg. "Life cycle assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 2, no. 1 (January 1994): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0959-6526(94)90020-5.

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Nathan, Christopher, and Stuart Coles. "Life Cycle Assessment and Judgement." NanoEthics 14, no. 3 (November 26, 2020): 271–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00376-2.

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AbstractIt has become a standard for researchers carrying out biotechnology projects to do a life cycle assessment (LCA). This is a process for assessing the environmental impact of a technology, product or policy. Doing so is no simple matter, and in the last decades, a rich set of methodologies has developed around LCA. However, the proper methods and meanings of the process remain contested. Preceding the development of the international standard that now governs LCA, there was a lively debate in the academic community about the inclusion of ‘values’ within the process. We revisit this debate and reconsider the way forward for LCA. We set out ways in which those outside of science can provide input into LCAs by informing the value assumptions at stake. At the same time, we will emphasize that the role of those within the scientific community need not (and sometimes, will inevitably not) involve value-free inquiry. We carry out this exploration through a case study of a particular technology project that sought ways to produce industrial and consumer products from algal oils.

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Liang, Long, Rattan Lal, Bradley G. Ridoutt, Zhangliu Du, Dapeng Wang, Liyuan Wang, Wenliang Wu, and Guishen Zhao. "Life Cycle Assessment of China’s agroecosystems." Ecological Indicators 88 (May 2018): 341–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.053.

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Kim, Hyeong-Woo, and Hung-Suck Park. "Environmental Impact Assessment of Industrial Symbiosis Activity using Life Cycle Assessment." Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management 34, no. 4 (June 30, 2017): 330–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.9786/kswm.2017.34.4.330.

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Cseke, Akos, Merryn Haines-Gadd, Paul Mativenga, Fiona Charnley, Bradley Thomas, Robert Downs, and Justin Perry. "Life cycle assessment of self-healing products." CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology 37 (May 2022): 489–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2022.02.013.

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Pillay, S. D., E. Friedrich, and C. A. Buckley. "Life cycle assessment of an industrial water recycling plant." Water Science and Technology 46, no. 9 (November 1, 2002): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2002.0204.

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An industrial water recycling plant was recently commissioned in Durban, South Africa. As with any industrial activity there are environmental burdens associated with water recycling. To assess these burdens a relatively new environmental tool - the life cycle assessment (LCA) - was used. LCA is a systematic way to evaluate the environmental impact of a product or process. This study presents the environmental burdens associated with industrial water and identifies the areas for improvement for the processes involved for recycling water. It was shown that the majority of the environmental burdens for producing industrial water could be traced back to the consumption of electricity for the operation of the plant.

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Ismail, Y. "Potential Benefit of Industrial Symbiosis using Life Cycle Assessment." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1625 (September 2020): 012054. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1625/1/012054.

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Chen, Wenhao, Thomas L. Oldfield, Sotiris I. Patsios, and Nicholas M. Holden. "Hybrid life cycle assessment of agro-industrial wastewater valorisation." Water Research 170 (March 2020): 115275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115275.

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Sonnemann, Guido, Francesc Castells, Marta Schuhmacher, and Michael Hauschild. "Integrated life-cycle and risk assessment for industrial processes." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 9, no. 3 (May 2004): 206–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02994195.

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O'Connor, Matthew, Gil Garnier, and Warren Batchelor. "Life cycle assessment comparison of industrial effluent management strategies." Journal of Cleaner Production 79 (September 2014): 168–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.05.066.

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Üçtuğ, Fehmi Görkem. "The Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Dairy Products." Food Engineering Reviews 11, no. 2 (January 28, 2019): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12393-019-9187-4.

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Martínez-Blanco, Julia, Annekatrin Lehmann, Pere Muñoz, Assumpció Antón, Marzia Traverso, Joan Rieradevall, and Matthias Finkbeiner. "Application challenges for the social Life Cycle Assessment of fertilizers within life cycle sustainability assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 69 (April 2014): 34–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.044.

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Faridmehr, Iman, Moncef L. Nehdi, Mehdi Nikoo, Ghasan Fahim Huseien, and Togay Ozbakkaloglu. "Life-Cycle Assessment of Alkali-Activated Materials Incorporating Industrial Byproducts." Materials 14, no. 9 (May 5, 2021): 2401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092401.

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Eco-friendly and sustainable materials that are cost-effective, while having a reduced carbon footprint and energy consumption, are in great demand by the construction industry worldwide. Accordingly, alkali-activated materials (AAM) composed primarily of industrial byproducts have emerged as more desirable alternatives to ordinary Portland cement (OPC)-based concrete. Hence, this study investigates the cradle-to-gate life-cycle assessment (LCA) of ternary blended alkali-activated mortars made with industrial byproducts. Moreover, the embodied energy (EE), which represents an important parameter in cradle-to-gate life-cycle analysis, was investigated for 42 AAM mixtures. The boundary of the cradle-to-gate system was extended to include the mechanical and durability properties of AAMs on the basis of performance criteria. Using the experimental test database thus developed, an optimized artificial neural network (ANN) combined with the cuckoo optimization algorithm (COA) was developed to estimate the CO2 emissions and EE of AAMs. Considering the lack of systematic research on the cradle-to-gate LCA of AAMs in the literature, the results of this research provide new insights into the assessment of the environmental impact of AAM made with industrial byproducts. The final weight and bias values of the AAN model can be used to design AAM mixtures with targeted mechanical properties and CO2 emission considering desired amounts of industrial byproduct utilization in the mixture.

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Farinha, Catarina Brazão, José Dinis Silvestre, Jorge de Brito, and Maria do Rosário Veiga. "Life Cycle Assessment of Mortars with Incorporation of Industrial Wastes." Fibers 7, no. 7 (July 4, 2019): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fib7070059.

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The production of waste is increasing yearly and, without a viable recycle or reutilization solution, waste is sent to landfills, where it can take thousand to years to degrade. Simultaneously, for the production of new materials, some industries continue to ignore the potential of wastes and keep on using natural resources for production. The incorporation of waste materials in mortars is a possible solution to avoid landfilling, through their recycling or reutilization. However, no evaluation of their “sustainability” in terms of environmental performance is available in the literature. In this sense, in this research a life cycle assessment was performed on mortars, namely renders, with incorporation of industrials wastes replacing sand and/or cement. For that purpose, eight environmental impact categories (abiotic depletion potential, global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, photochemical ozone creation potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, use of non-renewable primary energy resources, and use of renewable primary energy resources) within a “cradle to gate” boundary were analyzed for 19 mortars with incorporation of several industrial wastes: sanitary ware, glass fiber reinforced polymer, forest biomass ashes, and textile fibers. Sixteen out of the 19 mortars under analysis presented, in all environmental impact categories, an equal or better environment performance than a common mortar (used as a reference). The benefits in some environmental impacts were over 20%.

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Ye, Chensong, Dongyan Mu, Naomi Horowitz, Zhonglin Xue, Jie Chen, Mingxiong Xue, Yu Zhou, Megan Klutts, and Wenguang Zhou. "Life cycle assessment of industrial scale production of spirulina tablets." Algal Research 34 (September 2018): 154–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2018.07.013.

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Mattila, Tuomas, Suvi Lehtoranta, Laura Sokka, Matti Melanen, and Ari Nissinen. "Methodological Aspects of Applying Life Cycle Assessment to Industrial Symbioses." Journal of Industrial Ecology 16, no. 1 (February 2012): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2011.00443.x.

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Madrid-Solórzano, Juan Manuel, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Eduardo Martínez Cámara, Julio Blanco Fernández, and Emilio Jiménez Macías. "Sustainable Industrial Sotol Production in Mexico—A Life Cycle Assessment." Agriculture 12, no. 12 (December 15, 2022): 2159. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12122159.

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Sotol is a distilled spirit made in the north of Mexico produced from the wild plant Dasylirion wheeleri. Although sotol was awarded the Designation of Origin (DO) in 2002 and has an economic influence on the DO region, its environmental profile has not been determined. For that reason, this paper reports a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the industrial sotol production process in the Mexican state of Chihuahua to determine any significant environmental impacts caused by sotol production from raw material acquisition to the packaging stage. The LCA was modeled using SimaPro 8.5.2 software (PRé Sustainability, Amersfoort, The Netherlands) and the environmental impacts were calculated using the CML-IA baseline v3.03/EU25 impact assessment technique. The findings reveal that sotol beverage manufacturing considerably affects three of the eleven impact categories selected and that the harvesting and bottling stages have the greatest negative environmental impact of all the sotol production stages. According to empirical data, one bottle (750 mL) of sotol results in a higher carbon dioxide value than any other spirit evaluated in earlier LCA studies, with white, rested, and aged sotol generating 5.07, 5.12, and 5.13 kg CO2 eq, respectively. Other drinks, such as mescal, classic gin, and whisky generate only 1.7, 0.91, and 2.25 kg CO2 eq, respectively. In conclusion, sotol distillery companies should start to decrease road transport of raw materials used in the packaging stage and begin to cultivate sotol instead of extracting it from the wild as strategies to achieve cleaner production.

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Russell, A., T. Ekvall, and H. Baumann. "Life cycle assessment – introduction and overview." Journal of Cleaner Production 13, no. 13-14 (November 2005): 1207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.05.008.

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Astudillo, Miguel F., Gunnar Thalwitz, and Fritz Vollrath. "Life cycle assessment of Indian silk." Journal of Cleaner Production 81 (October 2014): 158–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.007.

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Zhang, Yun, Shasha Duan, Jinhua Li, Shuai Shao, Wenqiang Wang, and Shushen Zhang. "Life cycle assessment of industrial symbiosis in Songmudao chemical industrial park, Dalian, China." Journal of Cleaner Production 158 (August 2017): 192–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.04.119.

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Hanak, Dawid P. "Environmental life-cycle assessment of waste-coal pellets production." Clean Energy 6, no. 1 (December 20, 2021): 765–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ce/zkab050.

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Abstract Industrial decarbonization is crucial to keeping the global mean temperature <1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Although unabated coal use needs to be phased out, coal is still expected to remain an important source of energy in power and energy-intensive industries until the 2030s. Decades of coal exploration, mining and processing have resulted in ~30 billion tonnes of waste-coal tailings being stored in coal impoundments, posing environmental risks. This study presents an environmental life-cycle assessment of a coal-processing technology to produce coal pellets from the waste coal stored in impoundments. It has been shown that the waste-coal pellets would result in the cradle-to-gate global warming of 1.68–3.50 kgCO2,eq/GJch, depending on the source of electricity used to drive the process. In contrast, the corresponding figure for the supply of conventional coal in the US was estimated to be 12.76 kgCO2,eq/GJch. Such a reduction in the global-warming impact confirms that waste-coal pellets can be a viable source of energy that will reduce the environmental impact of the power and energy-intensive industries in the short term. A considered case study showed that complete substitution of conventional coal with the waste-coal pellets in a steelmaking plant would reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions from 2649.80 to 2439.50 kgCO2,eq/tsteel. This, in turn, would reduce the life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of wind-turbine manufacturing by ≤8.6%. Overall, this study reveals that the use of waste-coal pellets can bring a meaningful reduction in industrial greenhouse-gas emissions, even before these processes are fully decarbonized.

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Tong, Le, Xin Liu, Xuewei Liu, Zengwei Yuan, and Qiong Zhang. "Life cycle assessment of water reuse systems in an industrial park." Journal of Environmental Management 129 (November 2013): 471–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.08.018.

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Rebitzer, Gerald. "Enhancing the Application Efficiency of Life Cycle Assessment for Industrial Uses." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 10, no. 6 (November 2005): 446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/lca2005.11.005.

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Nouri, J., N. Nouri, and M. Moeeni. "Development of industrial waste disposal scenarios using life-cycle assessment approach." International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 9, no. 3 (May 25, 2012): 417–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13762-012-0076-0.

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Alberola-Borràs, Jaume-Adrià, Jenny A. Baker, Francesca De Rossi, Rosario Vidal, David Beynon, Katherine E. A. Hooper, Trystan M. Watson, and Iván Mora-Seró. "Perovskite Photovoltaic Modules: Life Cycle Assessment of Pre-industrial Production Process." iScience 9 (November 2018): 542–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.10.020.

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