The joint use of life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis methodologies for eco-efficiency assessment: A critical review, taxonomy and future research

2020 ◽  
Vol 738 ◽  
pp. 139538
Author(s):  
Leonardo Vásquez-Ibarra ◽  
Ricardo Rebolledo-Leiva ◽  
Lidia Angulo-Meza ◽  
Marcela C. González-Araya ◽  
Alfredo Iriarte
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Efficiency Assessment

Joint Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis for the benchmarking of environmental impacts in rice paddy production

2015 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Shahin Rafiee ◽  
Ali Jafari ◽  
Alireza Keyhani ◽  
Tommy Dalgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Rice Paddy ◽  
Data Envelopment

Further potentials in the joint implementation of life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 408 (22) ◽  
pp. 5265-5272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Iribarren ◽  
Ian Vázquez-Rowe ◽  
María Teresa Moreira ◽  
Gumersindo Feijoo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Joint Implementation ◽  
Data Envelopment

scholarly journals Eco-Efficiency Assessment of Intensive Rice Production in Japan: Joint Application of Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyotaka Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Joint Application ◽  
Adjustment Program ◽  
Analysis Technique

To promote sustainable agriculture worldwide, it is important to understand what constitutes eco-efficiency for rice, a staple food in many countries. This study examined whether expanding the scale of rice farming contributed to the improved eco-efficiency of intensive rice production in Japan. Both life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) were used to measure comprehensively the eco-efficiency of rice production. A DEA window analysis technique with two DEA inputs (global warming and eutrophication from the LCA results) and one DEA output (weight-based rice yield) was applied to the statistical data for 2005–2011 categorized by the size of rice farms. The results indicate that expanding the size of rice farms is an effective way of improving the eco-efficiency of intensive rice production in Japan. The important factors for improving eco-efficiency are the implementation of economies of scale, reduced outsourcing of farm work, and savings in chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Expansion of the size of rice farms through the recent abolition of the rice production adjustment program will also contribute to improving the eco-efficiency of Japanese rice production.

Environmental management of tea production using joint of life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1116-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Kouchaki-Penchah ◽  
Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei ◽  
Jean O'Dwyer ◽  
Mohammad Sharifi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Tea Production

scholarly journals Improving Energy Efficiency of Barley Production Using Joint Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Optimization Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6082
Author(s):  
Zahra Payandeh ◽  
Ahmad Jahanbakhshi ◽  
Tarahom Mesri-Gundoshmian ◽  
Sean Clark
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Aquatic Ecotoxicity ◽  
Environmental Emissions

Eco-efficiency has become a cornerstone in improving the environmental and economic performance of farms. The joint use of life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA), known as LCA + DEA methodology, is an expanding area of research in this quest. LCA estimates the environmental impacts of the products or services, while DEA evaluates their efficiency, providing targets and benchmarks for the inefficient ones. Because energy consumption and environmental quality are highly interdependent, we carried out a study to examine energy efficiency and environmental emissions associated with rain-fed barley farms in Kermanshah Province, Iran. Fifty-four rain-fed barley farms were randomly selected, and production data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. DEA and LCA were used to quantify and compare environmental indicators before and after efficiency improvements were applied to the farms. To accomplish this, efficient and inefficient farms were identified using DEA. Then environmental emissions were measured again after inefficient farms reached the efficiency limit through management improvements. The results showed that by managing resource use, both energy consumption and environmental emissions can be reduced without yield loss. The initial amount of energy consumed averaged 13,443 MJ/ha while that consumed in the optimal state was determined to be 12,509 MJ/h, resulting in a savings of 934 MJ/ha. Based on the results of DEA, reductions in nitrogen fertilizer, diesel fuel, and phosphate fertilizer offered the greatest possibilities for energy savings. Combining DEA and LCA showed that efficient resource management could reduce emissions important to abiotic depletion (fossil fuels), human toxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, global warming (GWP100a), freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, and terrestrial ecotoxicity. This study contributes toward systematically building knowledge about crop production with the joint use of LCA + DEA for eco-efficiency assessment.

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