
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Decision-Making
Methodologies and Case Studies
Description
Key Features
- Includes models for assessing sustainability in environmental, energy engineering and economic scenarios
- Features case studies that help define the advantages and obstacles of real world applications
- Presents a complete view, from theory to practice, of a life cycle approach by exploring the methods and tools of sustainability assessment, analysis and design of sustainability assessment
Readership
Researchers and students studying energy, sustainability and life cycle assessment; sustainability consultants; and governments interested in sustainable development
Table of Contents
1. Introduction-Life Cycle Thinking
2. Sustainability, sustainable development and business sustainability
3. Life cycle thinking tools: Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Social Life Cycle Assessment
4. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: an ongoing journey
5. Development and Applicability of Life Cycle Impact Assessment methodologies
6. Life Cycle Thinking for Sustainable Development in the Building Industry
7. MCDM for sustainability ranking of district heating systems considering uncertainties
8. Framework of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
9. Life Cycle Decision Support Framework: Method and Case Study
10. Advancing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making
11. A Composite Life Cycle Sustainability Index for Sustainability Prioritization of Industrial Systems
12. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Decision-Making under Uncertainties
13. Multi-Criteria Decision Making After Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Under Hybrid Information
14. Life Cycle Sustainability Decision-making framework for the prioritization of electrochemical energy storage under uncertainties
15. Barriers Identification and Prioritization for Sustainability Enhancement: Promoting the Sustainable Development of Desalination Industry
16. Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis, Weighting Methods and Life Cycle Thinking: A Quantitative Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Improvement
Product details
- No. of pages: 362
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 19, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128183557
- eBook ISBN: 9780128183564
About the Editors
Jingzheng Ren

Affiliations and Expertise
Sara Toniolo
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