Simplified life cycle sustainability assessment of mangrove management: a case of plantation on wastelands in Thailand

Moriizumi, Yue; Matsui, Naohiro; Hondo, Hiroki

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.07.017

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“…Aggregation of results was achieved by calculation of external costs or through MCDA [67]. In contrast, Moriizumi et al [68] used a life cycle based assessment of different mangrove management options using just one indicator per sustainability dimension and, similarly, Zhou et al [69] conducted their assessment based on four indicators that covered environmental and economic impacts.…”

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Review of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Potential for Its Adoption at an Automotive Company

2017

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to guide the next steps of a PhD thesis through a structured review of the state of the art and implementation of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), and to identify challenges and potentials for its adoption at an automotive company. First, the structured literature review was conducted on LCSA to screen the current methodological and practical implementations and to identify the main research needs in the field. Second, a research on the current status of LCSA within the automotive industry was carried out by means of investigation of published sources of 15 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). By combining the results of both steps and consulting with decision makers, the challenges and potential for adopting LCSA at an automotive company were identified. The main challenges for adoption of LCSA were found to be: (1) the consistent execution of the three life cycle based assessment methods; (2) the comparatively low maturity of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA); and (3) the adequate presentation and interpretation of results. Next steps towards implementation would be a case study to gather experience on the combined execution of the three life cycle based assessments at an automotive company. Furthermore, it should be determined what the needs of decision makers at an automotive company are regarding the aggregation and interpretation of environmental, social, and economic impacts.

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Review of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Potential for Its Adoption at an Automotive Company

2017

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“…Even though conventional LCA has been applied to evaluate ecosystem management options (Moriizumi et al. ), it tends to only encourage technological changes to reduce the impacts, since the ecological capacity to provide ES is not considered explicitly. TES‐LCA considers the interactions between human demands and nature's capacities at multiple spatial scales and thus informs users how to implement efforts at local and serviceshed scales for various processes in the life cycle.…”

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Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment while Encouraging Techno‐Ecological Synergies

Liu

Bakshi

2018

J of Industrial Ecology

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) has enabled consideration of environmental impacts beyond the narrow boundary of traditional engineering methods. This reduces the chance of shifting impacts outside the system boundary. However, sustainability also requires that supporting ecosystems are not adversely affected and remain capable of providing goods and services for supporting human activities. Conventional LCA does not account for this role of nature, and its metrics are best for comparing alternatives. These relative metrics do not provide information about absolute environmental sustainability, which requires comparison between the demand and supply of ecosystem services (ES). Technoecological synergy (TES) is a framework to account for ES, and has been demonstrated by application to systems such as buildings and manufacturing activities that have narrow system boundaries.This article develops an approach for techno-ecological synergy in life cycle assessment (TES-LCA) by expanding the steps in conventional LCA to incorporate the demand and supply of ecosystem goods and services at multiple spatial scales. This enables calculation of absolute environmental sustainability metrics, and helps identify opportunities for improving a life cycle not just by reducing impacts, but also by restoring and protecting ecosystems. TES-LCA of a biofuel life cycle demonstrates this approach by considering the ES of carbon sequestration, air quality regulation, and water provisioning. Results show that for the carbon sequestration ecosystem service, farming can be locally sustainable but unsustainable at the global or serviceshed scale. Air quality regulation is unsustainable at all scales, while water provisioning is sustainable at all scales for this study in the eastern part of the United States. Keywords:biofuel ecosystem services environmental metrics industrial ecology life cycle assessment (LCA) sustainability assessment Supporting information is linked to this article on the JIE website

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“…Halog and Manik (2011), , , Bachmann (2013), , , Buchert et al (2015), Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis , , , Case Studies Brandão et al (2010), Schau et al (2012), Traverso et al (2012a), Traverso et al (2012b), Valdivia et al (2013), Lu et al (2014), , Minne and Crittenden (2015), Yu and Halog (2015) Alternative Assessment Methods Zhou et al (2007), Azapagic and Stichnothe (2010), Moriizumi et al (2010), Jeswani and Azapagic (2012), Nzila et al (2012), Schulz et al (2012), Stamford and Azapagic (2012), Luthe et al (2013), Tugnoli et al (2013), Ingwersen et al (2014), Mjörnell et al (2014), Shuaib et al (2014, Azapagic (2014), Torquati et al (2014), Dewulf et al (2015), Hirschberg and Burgherr (2015), Li et al (2015) There are different understandings of how to approach product sustainability in general as becomes evident in the different understandings on how to develop a framework, and to Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in particular as there were plethora of issues addressed and even more alternative assessment methods developed.…”

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Introducing a product sustainability budget at an automotive company—one option to increase the use of LCSA results in decision-making processes

Tarne

Lehmann

Kantner³

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Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose:The assessment and improvement of sustainability impacts of products is integral to achieve sustainable development. A way to assess the impact of a product over its entire life cycle on all three dimensions of sustainability (environment, economy and society) is Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). LCSA suggests to carry out three complementary assessments: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA). While LCA is widely applied across various industries, the use of LCSA at industrial companies is still scarce. This is, inter alia, due to the challenges in data acquisition in S-LCA and missing support in decision making based on LCSA results as well as their implementation in the decision processes at companies. This thesis aims at remediating these shortcomings to achieve its overarching goal: Increasing the applicability of LCSA to identify and implement product sustainability improvement potential. For this, three research objectives were defined to address the main impediments. First, an approach to select social indicators and to focus primary data collection in S-LCA. Second, a method to interpret LCSA results for decision makers. Third, a mechanism to integrate LCSA based results into product-related decision making at an automotive company. Methods:To put the LCSA framework into practice at an automotive company, it was applied to the component level of a vehicle to assess the impact of every component over its life cycle. In the proposed framework, criticality scores for every LCSA dimension were defined. They were calculated based on the relative performance of a component in the respective LCSA dimension (LCA, LCC and S-LCA) to the rest of the components of the assessed vehicle. This conceptual approach formed the bearing for the integration of the individual research objectives. The three research objectives were addressed in individual publications. The results of these separate papers were combined to increase the applicability of the conceptual approach of the LCSA framework. Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) databases were assessed regarding their possible use to address the first research objective.The findings were applied to enable an assessment of the S-LCA dimension in the LCSA framework.A study on the weighting of sustainability dimensions by decision makers in an automotive company was carried out to tackle the second research objective. The results were used to determine an overall LCSA impact result for every component of a vehicle. To address the third research objective, the customer added value of product sustainability features was investigated. The results were used to create a mechanism that enabled the integration of the assessment results of the LCSA framework alongside other indicators in product-related decision processes at an automotive company. Results:Supply chain analysis based on MRIO analysis did not offer substantial support for focusing primary data collection in S-LCA. Therefore, a material-based appr...

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Simplified life cycle sustainability assessment of mangrove management: a case of plantation on wastelands in Thailand

Cited by 49 publications

References 37 publications

Review of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Potential for Its Adoption at an Automotive Company

Review of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Potential for Its Adoption at an Automotive Company

Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment while Encouraging Techno‐Ecological Synergies

Introducing a product sustainability budget at an automotive company—one option to increase the use of LCSA results in decision-making processes

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