Environmental impact assessment of the current, emerging, and alternative waste management systems using life cycle assessment tools: a case study of Johannesburg, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwatobi Adeleke ◽  
Stephen A. Akinlabi ◽  
Tien-Chien Jen ◽  
Israel Dunmade
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Management Systems

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

Environments ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Kavya Madhu ◽  
Stefan Pauliuk
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Desert Ecosystem ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Analysis Tool

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.

scholarly journals Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment of Circular Agriculture: A Case Study in Fuqing, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiguo Fan ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Zihan Xu ◽  
Hejie Wei ◽  
Nachuan Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment

Life Cycle Assessment of waste management systems in Italian industrial areas: Case study of 1st Macrolotto of Prato

Energy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Tarantini ◽  
Arianna Dominici Loprieno ◽  
Eleonora Cucchi ◽  
Ferdinando Frenquellucci
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Industrial Areas

Environmental Impact Assessment of Salmonid Feeds Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

AMBIO ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Papatryphon ◽  
Jean Petit ◽  
Sadasivam J. Kaushik ◽  
Hayo M. G. van der Werf
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment
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