Assessing Progress Towards Sustainability: Frameworks, Tools and Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9780323858519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Carmen Teodosiu; Silvia Fiore; Almudena Hospido

Spis treści

1. An integrated approach to assess the sustainability progress

SECTION 1. Frameworks for assessing sustainability 2. Sustainable development and its goals 3. Sustainability and the circular economy 4. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus Approach 5. The European Green Deal in the Global Sustainability Context

SECTION 2. Assessment tools for sustainability- methodological issues 6. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment-based Tools 7. Footprint Tools 8.  The combined use of Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis to analyze the environmental efficiency of multi-unit systems 9. Territorial LCA 10. Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment 11.  Multi-Criteria Decision Making

SECTION 3. Case studies for sustainability assessments 12. Life cycle assessment for eco-design in product development 13. Life Cycle Assessment for the design of a pilot Recovery Plant in the European context 14. LCA and food and personal care products sustainability: Case studies of Thai Riceberry rice products 15. Environmental and economic sustainability of cocoa production in West Sub-Saharan Africa 16. LCA/Sustainability assessment for urban water systems 17. Environmental sustainability in energy production systems 18. Sustainability assessment of biotechnological processes: LCA and LCC of second-generation biobutanol production 19. Footprint assessment of municipal solid waste management systems 20. How can we validate the environmental profile of bioplastics? Towards the introduction of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) in the value-chains. 21. Conclusions