1.1 Ecodesign as a new lever to enhance the global value proposition: from space to corporate
Kévin Le Blévennec, An Vercalsteren and Katrien Boonen
1.2 The “environmental activation energy” of modularity and conditions for an environmental payback
Karsten Schischke, Marina Proske, Rainer Pamminger, Sebastian Glaser, Nils F. Nissen, Martin Schneider-Ramelow
1.3 Quantitative environmental impact assessment for agricultural products caused by exposure of artificial light at night
Yoko Kurahara, Norihiro Itsubo
1.4 City Air Management: LCA-based decision support model to improve air quality
Jens-Christian Holst, Katrin Müller, Florian- Ansgar Jäger, Klaus Heidinger
1.5 Is environmental efficiency compatible with economic competitiveness in dairy farming? A case study of 80 Luxembourgish farms
Rocco Lioy, Caroline Battheu-Noirfalise, Aline Lehnen, Roman Reding, Tom Dusseldorf
Chapter 2. Sustainable technologies
2.1. Accounting for the temporal fluctuation of wind power production when assessing their environmental impacts with LCA: combining wind power with power-to-gas in Denmark.
Romain Besseau, Milien Dhorne, Paula Pérez-López, Isabelle Blanc
2.2. Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment – Hydrogen production as a showcase for an emerging methodology
Christina Wulf, Petra Zapp, Andrea Schreiber and Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs
2.3. Role of stochastic approach applied to Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from secondary sources case studies
Dariusz Sala, Bogusław Bieda
2.4. Extending LCA methodology for assessing liquid biofuels by phosphate resource depletion and attributional land use / land use change
Heiko Keller, Horst Fehrenbach, Nils Rettenmaier, Marie Hemmen
2.5. The environmental assessment of biomass waste conversion to sustainable energy in the agricultural biogas plant
Magdalena Muradin
2.6. Life cycle assessment benchmark for wooden buildings in Europe
Erwin M. Schau, Eva Prelovšek Niemelä, Aarne Johannes Niemelä, Tatiana Abaurre Alencar Gavric and Iztok Šušteršič
2.7. Importance of building energy efficiency towards national and regional energy targets
Can B. Aktaş
Chapter 3. Sustainable organizations
3.1. Enhancing social-environmental-economical systemic vision: applying OLCA in a NGO
José Manuel Gil-Valle, Juan Pablo Chargoy-Amador
3.2. LCA in Field of Safety at Work: A New Engineering Study Subject
Boris Agarski, Dejan Ubavin, Djordje Vukelic, Milana Ilic Micunovic and Igor Budak
3.3. Setting internal price of environmental criteria, the good way to transform organization?
Stéphane Morel, Nabila Iken, Franck Aggeri
Chapter 4. Sustainable markets and policy
4.1. Metal and plastic recycling flows in a circular value chain
Sasha Shahbazi, Patricia van Loon, Martin Kurdve and Mats Johansson
4.2. Social Life Cycle Indicators towards a sustainability label of a natural stone for coverings
Elisabetta Palumbo, Marzia Traverso , Sabrina Neugebauer, Maria Chiara Torricelli
4.3. A life cycle-based scenario analysis framework for municipal solid waste management
Ioan-Robert Istrate, José-Luis Gálvez-Martos and Javier Dufour
4.4. The life cycle sustainability indicators for electricity generation in Chile: challenges in the use of primary information.
Mabel Vega-Coloma, and Claudio Zaror Z.
Chapter 5. Sustainable methodological solutions
5.1. Enhancing Life Cycle Management through the symbiotic use of Data Envelopment Analysis: novel advances in LCA + DEA
Cristina Álvarez-Rodríguez, Mario Martín-Gamboa and Diego Iribarren
5.2. Carbon footprint as a first step towards LCA usage
Wladmir H. Motta
5.3. Society`s perception-based characterization factors for mismanaged polymers at end of life
Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Group for Ecobalancing and Quality.
Joanna Kałkowska Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Engineering Management.
Jędrzej Kasprzak Assistant Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Institute of Transport, Division of Universal Design and Mobility Means
This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, analyze and manage product-related information and activities towards continuous improvement, along the different products life cycle. The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses and organizations in order to improve their sustainability performance. This book provides a cross-sectoral, current picture of LCM issues. The structure of the book is based on five-theme lines. The themes represent different objects that are focused on sustainability and LCM practices mainly related to: products, technologies, organizations, markets and policy issues as well as methodological solutions. The book brings together presentations from the world of science and the world of enterprises as well as institutions supporting economic development.