scholarly journals Sustainability and Resilience Assessment in the Pandemic Emergency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Arcese ◽  
Marzia Traverso
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Coworking Spaces ◽  
Sustainability Assessments ◽  
Resilience Assessment ◽  
The Way

The coronavirus pandemic has affected all production and service sectors. The crisis has led to the increased awareness of the fragility and vulnerability of our societies and our lifestyles. The speed at which it spreads has led first to a change of our behavior and our way of life but at the same time, it has also changed the way we consider our buildings and how we live in them. Considering the new visions aimed at sharing spaces, such as those of work with the coworking spaces or frontal lessons in the classroom, they must now be rethought. In tourism and catering, relations with customers are reviewed and public transport is radically rethought. In this context, the concept of resilience plays a key role. How resistant are we and our environment to crises like COVID-19? What is the significance of resilience in sustainability? Is there a link between the assessment of resilience and life cycle assessment? In this paper is represented a general framework to connect resilience and sustainability assessments.

Life Cycle Assessment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E Horne ◽  
Tim Grant ◽  
Karli Verghese
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
And Performance

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in LCA has accelerated alongside growing demand to assess and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across different manufacturing and service sectors. Life Cycle Assessment focuses on the reflective practice of LCA, and provides critical insight into the technique and how it can be used as a problem-solving tool. It describes the distinctive strengths and limitations of LCA, with an emphasis on practice in Australia, as well as the application of LCA in waste management, the built environment, water and agriculture. Supported by examples and case studies, each chapter investigates contemporary challenges for environmental assessment and performance improvement in these key sectors. LCA methodologies are compared to the emerging climate change mitigation policy and practice techniques, and the uptake of ‘quick’ LCA and management tools are considered in the light of current and changing environmental agendas. The authors also debate the future prospects for LCA technique and applications.

scholarly journals Exergy-Based Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11682
Author(s):  
Martin Nwodo ◽  
Chimay Anumba
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Comparison Of Results ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

The relevance of exergy to the life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings has been studied regarding its potential to solve certain challenges in LCA, such as the characterization and valuation, accuracy of resource use, and interpretation and comparison of results. However, this potential has not been properly investigated using case studies. This study develops an exergy-based LCA method and applies it to three case-study buildings to explore its benefits. The results provide evidence that the theoretical benefits of exergy-based LCA as against a conventional LCA can be achieved. These include characterization and valuation benefits, accuracy, and enabling the comparison of environmental impacts. With the results of the exergy-based LCA method in standard metrics, there is now a mechanism for the competitive benchmarking of building sustainability assessments. It is concluded that the exergy-based life cycle assessment method has the potential to solve the characterization and valuation problems in the conventional life-cycle assessment of buildings, with local and global significance.

Switzerland as a Single Metropolitan Area? A Study of its Commuting Network

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (13) ◽  
pp. 2785-2802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Dessemontet ◽  
Vincent Kaufmann ◽  
Christophe Jemelin
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
Commuting Patterns ◽  
The Way

Out of the many ingredients that together build urban areas, three deserve particular consideration as their relationship is evolving: the functional centrality, the morphology of built-up areas and the way of life. Those three characteristics do not necessarily match along territorial lines anymore. To overcome this limitation, this article suggests approaching urbanity in terms of cohesion. To illustrate this approach under a specific analytical point of view, the paper describes a cohesion index based on the commuter relationships between the Swiss communes from 1970 to 2000. For 2000, further distinction is made between car-based and public transport-based commuting patterns, which allowed discrimination between two scales of cohesiveness between the Swiss agglomerations.

scholarly journals Radiological impacts in Life Cycle Assessment. Part I: General framework and two practical methodologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 135179
Author(s):  
Andrea Paulillo ◽  
Roland Clift ◽  
Jonathan M. Dodds ◽  
Andrew Milliken ◽  
Stephen J. Palethorpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
General Framework

scholarly journals Systematic Approach to Sustainability of Novel Internet-Based System for Food Logistics

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Koistinen ◽  
Ville Uusitalo ◽  
Anna Huostila
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Food Shopping ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

Abstract The aim of this paper is to evaluate the sustainability of a novel internet-based system for food logistics and to create a framework for more detailed future sustainability assessments. Digitalization enables food shopping via the internet and food delivery from producers to consumers using only a single terminal. The sustainability of different food logistic options was evaluated through a literature review and life cycle assessment. Given the frame of reference, there is a gap in the knowledge on the sustainability of food logistics. In addition, the current literature does not recognize a novel internet-based system for food logistics, as the literature has focused on evaluating the internet-based food logistics of traditional actors. The life cycle assessment results show that new food logistic options could reduce GHG emissions, but various factors affect the magnitude of the reductions. We also present a systematic approach to which factors should be included in future research. This paper creates a base for more detailed future food logistic sustainability assessments.

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