scholarly journals Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production

10.5772/23550 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camillo De ◽  
Paul Peeters ◽  
Luigia Petti ◽  
Andrea Raggi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment Approach on Food Packaging to Build Sustainable Consumption Awareness in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NiLuh Widyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Local People ◽  
Household Solid Waste ◽  
Assessment Approach

Household consumption is the value of products bought by the household. Consumption takes the biggest part in our lives to support our basic needs on food, clothe, and shelter. The products packaging do not come from natural anymore but from the man-made, such as paper, plastic, glass or metal. Most of the packaging become waste into the environment. There are organic and inorganic waste. The increasing number of population will increase the demand on the products and it will create more waste. Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world and it has still waste management problems in urban and rural area. In 2014 from my research, Jakarta has higher percentage on non-food than on food consumption but the contribution from food products into the local economy gets higher every year. We can see this phenomena almost in every place. This research used qualitative approach to gather data and information regarding people’s perception about household solid waste from their consumption behavior. The data do not available on the lower level adminitration. From the focus group discussion in Setia Asih Village (Bekasi) showed that local people and government have less knowledge on household solid waste, especially the life cycle via food packaging and how to treat the waste. So, I build a concept to solve the mind-set issue on the sustainable consumption awareness through the life cycle assessment approach. Local people and government can used it to improve their quality of life (social and economy) and environmental condition.

Protein quality as functional unit – A methodological framework for inclusion in life cycle assessment of food

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 470-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Sonesson ◽  
Jennifer Davis ◽  
Anna Flysjö ◽  
Jenny Gustavsson ◽  
Cornelia Witthöft
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Functional Unit ◽  
Methodological Framework

A methodological framework of eco-efficiency based on fuzzy logic and Life Cycle Assessment applied to a Mexican SME

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo García Besné ◽  
David Luna ◽  
Abraham Cobos ◽  
David Lameiras ◽  
Hugo Ortiz-Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Methodological Framework

scholarly journals Life Cycle Thinking in the Use of Natural Resources

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Koroneos ◽  
Ch. Achillas ◽  
N. Moussiopoulos ◽  
E.A. Nanaki
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Life Cycle Thinking ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production

The continuous increase of production and consumption of material in the developed world and the increase of the standard of living of the developing countries leads to the increase of the use of natural resources and the degradation of the environment. Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) is essential to sustainable consumption and production which will impact the use of limited resources. LCT is the process of taking into account in decision making both the resources consumed and the environmental and health pressures associated with the full life cycle of a product. It includes the extraction of resources, production, use, re-use, transport, recycling, and the ultimate waste disposal to provide goods and services and it helps in avoiding shifting the burdens among various life stages of a resource processing. It is important to use the life cycle thinking in analysing products because they may have different environmental impacts at different life cycle stages. It is important to note that some products have very high environmental impacts during the extraction and processing of their original natural resource but they may have minor environmental impacts when they are recycled. A good example is aluminium. The objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the life cycle thinking concept, and show its direct linkage to sustainability.

scholarly journals Development of a methodological framework for social life-cycle assessment of novel technologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthe van Haaster ◽  
Andreas Ciroth ◽  
João Fontes ◽  
Richard Wood ◽  
Andrea Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Novel Technologies

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment as a Methodological Framework for the Evaluation of the Environmental Sustainability of Pig and Pork Production in Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11693
Author(s):  
Mayra L. Pazmiño ◽  
Angel D. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Photochemical Oxidation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Pig Production ◽  
Environmental Burden ◽  
The Impact ◽  
By Products

Pork is one of the proteins of greatest demand worldwide. This study has evaluated the environmental sustainability of pig production by applying the life cycle assessment methodological framework. The system boundaries include feed production, pig production, slaughtering, and slaughterhouse by-product management. Within this context, three scenarios have been proposed: the first related to the management of slaughter by-products in an open dump, the second contemplates a model for using these by-products in a rendering plant, and a third where the environmental burden of slaughterhouse co-products is portioned according to economic allocation. The primary data collected correspond to the period of 2019 for the facilities of a producer in a coastal province of Ecuador. Three functional units were used—“1 kg of pig carcass at the slaughterhouse gate”, “1 kg pig live weigh at the farm gate”, and “1 kg of feed at the plant gate”. The impact categories included were global warming, fossil depletion, marine eutrophication, ozone layer depletion, particulate matter formation, photochemical oxidation formation, and terrestrial acidification. The results revealed that the production of ingredients for feed is the largest contributor to the environmental burden of pig and pork. The rendering of slaughter by-products that avoid the production of other fats and proteins results in a lower environmental impact than the other scenarios in almost all categories.

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