An innovative implementation of LCA within the EIA procedure: Lessons learned from two Wastewater Treatment Plant case studies

Larrey-Lassalle, Pyrène; Catel, Laureline; Roux, Philippe; López‐Ferber, M.; Junqua, Guillaume; Loiseau, Eléonore

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.12.004

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“…This research supports previous studies [7,10] that discussed the benefits of integrating LCA and EIA to aid sustainable urban development and to decrease the subjectivity of the EIA process. This section highlights the case study specific research findings and recommendations to the city developers followed by the general application of the framework along, with its limitations and scope for improvement.…”

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“…As such, many scientists acknowledge that a combination of EIA and LCA can be used for a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative assessment of large development projects, which covers not only the local impacts of a project but also the impacts along its supply chain [7][8][9]. It was also emphasized that LCA can be used in the procedural framework of EIA to recognize global hotspots of a project [8,10], to compare project alternatives [11][12][13][14], and to comprehensively study the impacts of the whole production system of a project by analyzing its impacts during the production phase, use phase, and end-of-life phase [4]. Even though the benefits of this integration are widely recognized in the literature, its practical application remains scarce [4,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment for Urban Systems: Framework and Case Study of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Madhu¹,

Pauliuk²

2019

Environments

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Planning urban expansion under the interconnected Sustainable Development Goals requires a systemic analysis of its environmental impacts. The benefits of integrating the widely used system analysis tool life cycle assessment (LCA) into the planning process tool environmental impact assessment (EIA) are described in the literature. However, not many applications of such an integration have been conducted. The aim of this study is to refine the framework for integrating LCA into the process of EIA and to apply this framework to an example of urban expansion: Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. The integrated framework builds on the complementarity between the scope and assessment steps of the tools and assesses the impacts for the areas of protection: human health, ecosystem, and resources. The framework is then applied to the vehicles, buildings, and infrastructure in the city’s first development phase (DP1). Major environmental stressors include the loss of existing desert ecosystem and the utilization of non-renewable sources of energy at various development stages of DP1. Substituting natural gas-based electricity with solar power could potentially save 46% of current carbon emissions. To mitigate the land transformation impacts, construction of “close-to-nature” artificial habitats, and increased use of low-carbon fuels is suggested.

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Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment for Urban Systems: Framework and Case Study of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Madhu¹,

Pauliuk²

2019

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“…A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach that considers all potential environmental impacts generated by an activity. Although originally focused on products and services, its application domain has recently expanded to organizations, including specific sites (ISO 2014; Larrey‐Lassalle et al 2017). A LCA accounts for all potential impacts, direct or indirect, local or global.…”

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Mining Impacts Assessment Using the LCA Methodology: Case Study of Afema Gold Mine in Ivory Coast

Yao

Belcourt

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Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Environmental impact assessment studies are mandatory for major industrial or infrastructure projects in most countries. These studies are usually limited to on‐site impacts during exploitation but do not consider indirect impacts generated off‐site or those concerning other steps of the project, including dismantling. National regulations in various countries have recently begun to include these neglected impacts to obtain a better appreciation of project trade‐offs. Several scientists have highlighted the substantial potential of using the life cycle assessment methodology to increase the level of detail and completeness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies. Even if mining activities are known to produce significant local impacts, their consequences outside an extraction site have not yet been well documented. The implementation of the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology in the EIA procedure has been carried out in a Au mining project by separating on‐site and off‐site impacts during the entire life cycle of the mine from prospection to site restoration following the end of exploitation. Mining projects occur over large time periods and require diverse materials and processes. The main difficulty of such analysis is the data collection that needs to be extrapolated for some of the activities. Even with these limitations, the Afema case study highlighted the significant share of off‐site impacts (from a spatial perspective) and the major contribution of the exploitation phase of the mine (from a temporal perspective). Operating activities, especially excavation, ore, and waste rock transportation, blasting, ore processing, and tailing treatments, are the main impacts produced during the exploitation phase and are involved in climate change, particulate matter formation, and land destruction. Therefore, this standardized LCA method should be recommended by the regulatory authorities for use in EIA procedures. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021;17:465–479. © 2020 SETAC

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“…[13] used LCA to assess the environmental impacts of freshwater thermal pollution. [14] studied the implementation of LCA in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures. For their study, the authors investigated two wastewater treatment plant.…”

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is implemented to various processes with a strict exception for naval platforms and warships. Thus, the recent studies for life cycle analysis of military ships are limited. LCA is a holistic method based on developing an optimization between environmental performance, cost-benefit balance and usability. LCC is a supporting subsection of LCA implemented to the analysis in order to calculate the probable costs during whole phases of a product. In this study, LCA and LCC are implemented to a naval platform and a calculation, which is based on escalation, is realized to compare the maintenance costs and initial cost for all life cycle of the platform. A generic warship is selected and yaw damping system of the ship was chosen for implementation of LCA and LCC. It is accepted that the systems and devices are used 1500 hours during cruising and 7260 hours during hoteling. First, the initial cost of yaw damping system is calculated, then, costs of long term maintenance with and without escalation are considered. In the final part, the profit gained by recycling of yaw damping system is calculated. The results has shown that an extra cost of 38 % and 19 % for operation and maintenance and total cost, respectively, must be added according to escalation calculations. While initial cost and operation and maintenance costs have 51 % and 49 % of total costs without escalation, the share of initial cost decreases to 43 % and the share of operation and maintenance increases to 57 % with the utilization of escalation.

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An innovative implementation of LCA within the EIA procedure: Lessons learned from two Wastewater Treatment Plant case studies

Cited by 28 publications

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Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment for Urban Systems: Framework and Case Study of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment for Urban Systems: Framework and Case Study of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Mining Impacts Assessment Using the LCA Methodology: Case Study of Afema Gold Mine in Ivory Coast

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