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

Madhu, Kavya; Pauliuk, Stefan

doi:10.3390/environments6090105

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“…This must determine the lowest cost of a product for an owner. The costs that are taken into account are: acquisition, installation, exploitation, maintenance, modernization and scrapping [16][17][18]. Life cycle cost analysis is useful when existing alternative solutions meet the same performance requirements but differ compared with initial costs and operating costs.…”

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“…The result of the analyses is to select the solution that maximizes results. The aim of Life Cycle Cost Assessment (LCCA) is "to estimate the total costs of the various possible products and to select the one that provides the lowest cost of owner, but also to the quality and functionality" [16,18,19]. The LCCA should be used at the beginning of the drafting process when the project designer still has the possibility of ensuring a reduction in Life Cycle Costs (LCC).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It counts and identifies the product costs through contracting and during the operation. Behind the acquisition costs, the LCC tool considers the operational costs (water, energy), maintenance, charges, resale value and scrapping costs [4,5,7,16,18,19].…”

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Multi-Criteria Assessment of Taxi Transport Services for Public Procurement: Case Study for Bacau City

2023

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LCA methodology is often used in public procurement decision making. The European Commission introduced Life Cycle Costing (LCC) in 2014 to support this methodology. LCCs take into account costs incurred during a service, work or product’s lifetime. Application management techniques of LCC offer a better awareness of the factors that influence the resources and costs in the case of procurements. The identification of the factors that influence the costs is the main key of the LCC tool. In such a way, the life cycle management is focused on efficient purchasing. The awareness levels of the LCC criteria influence the cost and will also highlight other aspects of existing products that could benefit from the involvement of life cycle management. Taxi transport services (as an alternative to public transportation) are a sector of the economy with a good income when acquisitions are properly carried out. When the acquisitions are analyzed, governmental and local regularizations should be taken into account. Today, cities, as well as small towns, look forward to improving the quality of life of the citizens and reducing pollution. The acquisitions of buses/cars for public use must be carried out with respect to the required performance of the cars. On the one hand, the municipality should be in line with the European Commission’s policy; on the other hand, it should be in line with the state’s public procurement requirements. An acquisition must also be reasonable in terms of price, lifetime, environmental impact, circular economy and meeting citizens’ needs. The goal of this paper was to analyze the acquisition of cars for taxi services from the perspective of public procurements. The study was performed with the help of the Taxi LAL company from Bacau County. The LCC techniques were applied to identify the most “acceptable” as well as the most “profitable” choices for taxi services. For a better understanding of the problem, within the present paper the mechanism of cost assessment for a product modernization was exemplified.

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Section: Lcc Criteriamentioning

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Section: Lcc Criteriamentioning

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Multi-Criteria Assessment of Taxi Transport Services for Public Procurement: Case Study for Bacau City

2023

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“…There are several studies that address the issue of using the life cycle assessment as a method for analyzing the environmental impact. In [16,17], the main aspects that should be taken into account when carrying out a more accurate analysis of the impact of EVs on the environment are discussed. In [16], the authors divided EVs into subsystems and began carrying out a life cycle assessment.…”

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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles

Kurkin,

Kryukov,

Masleeva

et al. 2024

Energies

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This article is devoted to the ecological comparison of electric and internal combustion engine vehicles throughout their entire life cycle, from mining to recycling. A scientifically based approach to a comprehensive environmental assessment of the impact of vehicles on the environment has been developed. To analyze the impact on the environmental situation, aspects such as the consumption of natural resources, waste generation, electricity consumption, emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions are taken into consideration. As a result of comparing the environmental impacts of vehicles, it was found that natural resources consumption and production of industrial waste from electric vehicles (EV) is 6 times higher than from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV). Harmful substance emissions and greenhouse gas emissions from EV production are 1.65 and 1.5 times higher, respectively. The EV total electricity consumption is 1.4 times higher than that of ICEVs. At the same time, it was revealed that during operation, EVs have higher energy consumption and emit more harmful substances into the atmosphere, but EVs produce less greenhouse gas emissions. It means that at different life cycle stages, EVs have a much higher negative impact on the environment compared to gasoline engine vehicles.

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“…The LCA method [53] has a promising potential for assessing the impact of complex decision-making as its systemic approach avoids burden-shifting between life cycle stages and impact categories [54]. It has also been proven to be an efficient tool for urban planning [55,56].…”

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Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

Lulovicova

Bouissou

2023

Sustainability

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Sub-national governments play a vital role in achieving food-related sustainability goals through the re-territorialization of agriculture. While the environmental impact of such policies cannot be reduced to decreased food miles, multiple methodological bottlenecks prevent seizing their entire potential. In this paper, a territorial life cycle analysis is adapted and used to comprehend the cradle-to-grave impact of local food policies. This is conducted by assessing the impact of a territory’s food-producing and consuming activities before and after the local food policies implementation. To evaluate the feasibility of the methodology, the municipality of Mouans-Sartoux (southeast France), engaged in local food policies for twenty years, is chosen. Four impact categories are modeled: global warming, fossil resource depletion, water consumption, and land use. The findings show that local food policies drive direct and indirect changes in farming and retail practices, but a more significant transformation is achieved by inhabitants, mostly by decreasing meat and ultra-processed product consumption. All actions summed up decrease the local food system’s impact by between 7 and 19%. These results demonstrate the efficiency of the method to provide a holistic environmental assessment at a mesoscale as well as the environmental efficacity of the local authority’s intervention in food-related matters.

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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

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Multi-Criteria Assessment of Taxi Transport Services for Public Procurement: Case Study for Bacau City

Multi-Criteria Assessment of Taxi Transport Services for Public Procurement: Case Study for Bacau City

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles

Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

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