Do life-cycle costing and assessment integration support decision-making towards sustainable development?

Atia, Noha Gawdat; Bassily, Makram; Elamer, Ahmed A.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122056

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“…When LCA is combined with an economic analysis, results are more policy relevant, as supported by previous studies [40,61,62]. Similar to other studies conducted in forests, e.g., woody product supply [63,64], the cost category that mainly affected costs in the present study was personnel, suggesting possible different results for monitoring comparisons conducted in countries with different labor costs.…”

Section: Economic Sustainabilitysupporting

confidence: 83%

Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Passive and Active Monitoring of Ozone for Forest Protection

Carrari¹,

Marco

Laschi

et al. 2021

Environments

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At forest sites, phytotoxic tropospheric ozone (O3) can be monitored with continuously operating, active monitors (AM) or passive, cumulative samplers (PM). For the first time, we present evidence that the sustainability of active monitoring is better than that of passive sensors, as the environmental, economic, and social costs are usually lower in the former than in the latter. By using data collected in the field, environmental, social, and economic costs were analyzed. The study considered monitoring sites at three distances from a control station in Italy (30, 400, and 750 km), two forest types (deciduous and Mediterranean evergreen), and three time windows (5, 10, and 20 years of monitoring). AM resulted in more convenience than PM, even after 5 years, in terms of O3 depletion, global warming, and photochemical O3 creation potential, suggesting that passive monitoring of ozone is not environmentally sustainable, especially for long time periods. AM led to savings ranging from a minimum of EUR 9650 in 5 years up to EUR 94,796 in 20 years in evergreen forests. The resulting social cost of PM was always higher than that of AM. The present evaluation will help in the decision process for the set-up of long-term forest monitoring sites dedicated to the protection of forests from O3.

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Section: Economic Sustainabilitysupporting

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Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Passive and Active Monitoring of Ozone for Forest Protection

Carrari¹,

Marco

Laschi

et al. 2021

Environments

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“…Although the Libyan government has established a technical centre for the protection of the environment under the Law No (263) of 2000, currently known as the EGA (ENPI‐SEIS Country Report, 2015), the analysed data revealed that this institutional authority faces a chronic problem of being unable to tackle issues of sustainability, comprising SER practise, due to the non‐application of laws. Although the government brought in Law No (15) of 2003, to reduce the negative influences of the firms' activities on the environment, protect it, achieving sustainability development (Atia et al, 2020); and integrated planning of the community and encourage them for disclosure, this institutional authority seems to be weak in terms of playing its role. Indeed, according to the ENPI‐SEIS Country Report (2015, p. 11), the reasons behind the weakness in enforcing the environmental law by the EGA is attributable to problems such as “a lack of equipment, trained personnel and general awareness that are inhibiting the consistent implementation and enforcement of environmental laws in Libya”.…”

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Social and environmental reporting, sustainable development and institutional voids: Evidence from a developing country

Alshbili

Elamer

Moustafa

2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study adopts the concept of institutional voids to examine the perceptions of managers and policymakers in developing markets with respect to the actual barriers that hinder social and environmental reporting (SER) towards sustainable development. The study uses in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with managers and decision‐makers and policymakers of the main oil and gas companies in weak institutional settings (Libya). The findings suggest that the absence of environment general authority's role, the absence of a clear legal requirement that refers to SER, the shortage of knowledge and awareness, the lack of motivation from the government, fear of change, and the absence of civil society organisations are perceived as the major barriers that hinder the development of SER. These findings contribute to the literature on institutional voids and sustainable development by providing evidence on SER barriers in the context of a developing country. Therefore, it could be useful to corporate regulators and policymakers to mitigate institutional voids to develop a more focussed SER agenda, when considering regulations for the disclosure and sustainable development.

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“…Sustainability does not only refer to economic or social development, nor is it solely ecology-based; instead, it refers to the entirety of the anthropocentric ecosocioeconomic complex. Compared to previous research on sustainable development of regional eco-economies [10,13,14], the present study had the following advantages: (i) The emergy method was used to evaluate the input and outputs of the regional economy, as well as those of various ecological and economic resources to provide a standardized unit of measure. The contribution of ecological products and services to sustainable development, and the detrimental impacts of waste, were evaluated.…”

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“…At present, there are several methods to evaluate its progress, including the economic/environmental single ratio method [6,7], index system method [8,9], and data envelopment analysis [10]. In recent years, material flow analysis [11,12], life cycle assess ment [13], the ecological footprint method [14,15], among others, have been introduced for the evaluation of ecological efficiency, thereby enriching the theories and methods of ecological efficiency evaluation. The index of regional eco-economic sustainable evaluation has gradually changed from single-to multifactorial, overcome the subjective issue of weight-setting, and changed to an objective model simulation.…”

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Emergy-based comparative analysis of an ecological economy in the Yangtze River Delta

Wang¹,

Fan²,

Yuan³

2022

Environmental Engineering Research

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The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has abundant regional advantages. Its rapid economic development plays an essential strategic role in China's overall growth; however, this place significantly pressurized on resources and the environment. Accordingly, this study developed an evaluation index and system of sustainable development for a green economic system based on the emergy theory. Moreover, comparative analyses were made according to the present ecological-socioeconomic systems of the YRD. The results indicated a large gap between the production efficiencies of the three provinces and a single city in the YRD. The highest emergy yield ratio was in Anhui Province, but the corresponding emergy yield per capita and emergy output density was the lowest; the environmental load ratios were all > 10, which is considered a high load; the sustainable development indices were all < 1, which represents a state of unsustainable development. According to the present research results, suggestions for the sustainable development of the YRD were put forth here. This research provides theoretical and methodological support for the sustainable development of an ecological economy in the YRD. It can serve as a decision-making reference for China to achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutralization.

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Do life-cycle costing and assessment integration support decision-making towards sustainable development?

Cited by 46 publications

References 81 publications

Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Passive and Active Monitoring of Ozone for Forest Protection

Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Passive and Active Monitoring of Ozone for Forest Protection

Social and environmental reporting, sustainable development and institutional voids: Evidence from a developing country

Emergy-based comparative analysis of an ecological economy in the Yangtze River Delta

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