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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA) that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). LCSA refers to the evaluation of all environmental, social and economic negative impacts and benefits in decision-making processes towards more sustainable products throughout their life cycle. Combination of environmental and social life cycle assessments along with life cycle costing leads to life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA). This book highlights various aspects of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA).
List of contents
Evolution of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment.- A Sustainability Assessment Framework for the Australian Food Industry: Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Circular Economy.- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Methodology and Framework.- Application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment to Evaluate the Future Energy Crops for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts.- Sustainable development: ICT, new directions, and strategies.- Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Building and Energy Retrofit Design - An Investigation into Challenges and Opportunities.- Evaluating the Sustainability of Feedlot Production in Australia Using a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework.- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Study of Conventional and Prefabricated Construction Methods: MADM analysis.
About the author
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
