Elgar Encyclopedia of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Edited by Marzia Traverso and
Jana Gerta Backes
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment provides concise and authoritative information on the methods, standards, and best practices in sustainability assessment.
Keywords: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment; Life Cycle Assessment; Social Life Cycle Assessment; Triple Bottom Line; Sustainability Assessment; Carbon Footprint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035309887
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 Abiotic depletion potential
- Marco Jabara and Alessandro Manzardo
- Ch 2 Acidification potential
- Zaid Hashash
- Ch 3 Attributional life cycle assessment
- Andrea Paulillo
- Ch 4 Benchmarking
- Mauro Cordella
- Ch 5 Biodiversity loss
- Tobias Hatzfeld and Christoph Scope
- Ch 6 Carbon footprint
- Stephan Krinke and Yu-Yi Lin
- Ch 7 Characterisation factors
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 8 Child labor subcategory
- Grazia Chiara Elmo
- Ch 9 Children stakeholder category
- Grazia Chiara Elmo
- Ch 10 Circular economy
- Kathrin Greiff, Berfin Bayram and Wiebke Hagedorn
- Ch 11 Circularity
- Kathrin Greiff, Berfin Bayram and Wiebke Hagedorn
- Ch 12 Classification
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 13 Climate change
- Stephan Krinke and Yu-Yi Lin
- Ch 14 Closed loop
- Giuseppe Ioppolo
- Ch 15 CML 2002 method
- Pamela Haverkamp
- Ch 16 Co-product handling
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 17 Completeness check
- Tobias Hatzfeld
- Ch 18 Consequential life cycle assessment
- Sara Toniolo and Carlo Ingrao
- Ch 19 Consistency check
- Tobias Hatzfeld
- Ch 20 Consumer health and safety subcategory
- Rose Nangah Mankaa
- Ch 21 Consumer stakeholder category
- Joana Fedato Pogoda
- Ch 22 Corporate carbon footprint
- Peter Saling
- Ch 23 Corporate social responsibility
- Rupert J. Baumgartner, Josef-Peter Schöggl and Martina Zimek
- Ch 24 Corporate sustainability
- Peter Saling
- Ch 25 Corruption subcategory
- Monica Serreli
- Ch 26 Cost in life cycle costing
- Christoph Scope
- Ch 27 Cradle to Cradle
- Andrea Paulillo
- Ch 28 Cradle to Gate
- Andrea Paulillo
- Ch 29 Cradle to Grave
- Andrea Paulillo
- Ch 30 Critical resources
- Gian Andrea Blengini
- Ch 31 Critical review
- Atsushi Inaba
- Ch 32 Cultural heritage subcategory
- Monika Cera
- Ch 33 Cumulative energy demand
- Saverio De Franceschi, Junzhang Wu, Alessandro Manzardo and Nils Pauliks
- Ch 34 Cut-off criteria
- Atsushi Inaba
- Ch 35 Data integration
- Caroline Visentin
- Ch 36 Data quality distance
- Caroline Visentin
- Ch 37 Data quality goals
- Caroline Visentin
- Ch 38 Data quality indicators
- Caroline Visentin
- Ch 39 Data variability
- Caroline Visentin
- Ch 40 Life cycle sustainability assessment for decision-making
- Luoqin Liu, Alessandro Manzardo and Junzhang Wu
- Ch 41 Decision support
- Miguel Brandão
- Ch 42 Delocalization and migration
- Rohit Ravi
- Ch 43 Downcycling
- Lucia Rigamonti
- Ch 44 Downstream
- Giulia Cavenago and Lucia Rigamonti
- Ch 45 Dynamic life cycle sustainability assessment
- Hashem Amini Toosi
- Ch 46 Ecodesign
- Mauro Cordella
- Ch 47 Eco-efficiency
- Sarina Achterfeldt
- Ch 48 Ecoinvent
- Gabriella Buttitta and Davide Lo Presti
- Ch 49 Economic allocation
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 50 Input-Output Models in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
- Amaro O. Pereira, Sandra Venghaus, Joilson A. Cabral, Paulo V.S. Lima, Matheus A. Santos, Holger Schlör, Sally Springer, Johannes Többen, Stefan Vögele and Petra Zapp
- Ch 51 Ecosystem
- Christina Wulf, Petra Zapp and Sally Springer
- Ch 52 Ecosystem quality
- Christina Wulf
- Ch 53 Ecotoxicity potential including terrestrial and marine/aquatic potential
- Monu George Varghese
- Ch 54 Education in the local community subcategory
- Rohit Ravi
- Ch 55 Elementary flow
- Benedetto Rugani
- Ch 56 Employment relationship subcategory
- Gijs Krekel
- Ch 57 End-of-life
- Anna Luthin
- Ch 58 Endpoint impact category
- Andrea Paulillo
- Ch 59 Energy
- Clemens Mostert
- Ch 60 Environmental assessment
- Yahong Dong and Md Uzzal Hossain
- Ch 61 Environmental footprint
- Yahong Dong and Md Uzzal Hossain
- Ch 62 Environmental hotspot analysis
- Nicholas M. Holden
- Ch 63 Environmental impact
- Yahong Dong and Md Uzzal Hossain
- Ch 64 Life cycle impact assessment
- Roberto Rosa, Carlo Ingrao and Anna Maria Ferrari
- Ch 65 Environmental impact category
- Suzana Ostojic
- Ch 66 Environmental input–output model
- Masaharu Motoshita and Maeno Keitaro
- Ch 67 Environmental Kuznets curve
- Mario Grosso
- Ch 68 Environmental management
- Yahong Dong and Md Uzzal Hossain
- Ch 69 Environmental product declaration
- Pamela Haverkamp
- Ch 70 Environmental responsibility
- Mario Grosso
- Ch 71 Environmental sustainability
- Yahong Dong and Md Uzzal Hossain
- Ch 72 Equal opportunities: Discrimination impact subcategory
- Arij Chabrawi
- Ch 73 Eutrophication potential
- Jinhui Zhou
- Ch 74 Exposure assessment method
- Masaharu Motoshita and Kamrul Islam
- Ch 75 Externalities
- Hashem Amini Toosi
- Ch 76 Fair competition subcategory
- Bruna Pereira de Souza
- Ch 77 Fair salary subcategory
- Sabrina Neugebauer
- Ch 78 Feedback mechanism subcategory
- Gijs Krekel
- Ch 79 Forced labour
- Arij Chabrawi
- Ch 80 Foreground/background process
- Gabriella Buttitta and Davide Lo Presti
- Ch 81 Freedom of association and collective bargaining subcategory
- Bianca Maria Tragnone and Luigia Petti
- Ch 82 Freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity potential
- Mario Grosso and Stefano Puricelli
- Ch 83 Functional unit
- Benedetto Rugani
- Ch 84 Global warming potential
- Stephan Krinke and Yu-Yi Lin
- Ch 85 Goal and scope phase
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 86 Greenhouse gas emissions
- Stephan Krinke and Yu-Yi Lin
- Ch 87 Health issues for children as consumers subcategory
- Bruna Pereira de Souza
- Ch 88 Human toxicity potential
- Olubukola Tokede
- Ch 89 Hybrid life cycle assessment
- Nicholas M. Holden
- Ch 90 Impact pathway
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 91 Industrial metabolism
- Nicholas M. Holden
- Ch 92 Input–output analysis
- Saroj Kumar Chapagain and Edeltraud Guenther
- Ch 93 Input–output
- Patrick Haun
- Ch 94 Integrated assessment model
- Nicholas M. Holden
- Ch 95 Interpretation
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 96 Inventory analysis
- Petra Zapp, Sally Springer and Christina Wulf
- Ch 97 Life cycle and life cycle perspective
- David Hysi
- Ch 98 Life cycle assessment
- David Hysi
- Ch 99 Life cycle costing
- Anna Luthin
- Ch 100 Life cycle crowns
- Blanca Corona
- Ch 101 Life cycle impact assessment
- Roland Meyer
- Ch 102 Life cycle interpretation
- Blanca Corona
- Ch 103 Life cycle inventory
- Umberto Arena, Filomena Ardolino and Francesco Parrillo
- Ch 104 Life cycle sustainability assessment
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 105 Life cycle thinking
- Blanca Corona
- Ch 106 Local community
- Zaid Hashash
- Ch 107 Local employment subcategory
- Manuela D’Eusanio
- Ch 108 Marine plastic waste
- Olubukola Tokede and Isaac Akinwumi
- Ch 109 Material flow
- Kathrin Greiff, Berfin Bayram and Wiebke Hagedorn
- Ch 110 Material flow analysis
- Kathrin Greiff, Berfin Bayram and Wiebke Hagedorn
- Ch 111 Material footprint
- Kathrin Greiff, Benedikt Verkic, Berfin Bayram and Wiebke Hagedorn
- Ch 112 Midpoint impact categories
- Roland Meyer
- Ch 113 Monetarization
- Christoph Scope
- Ch 114 Monte Carlo simulation
- Antonino Marvuglia
- Ch 115 Multi-criteria decision making
- Arij Chabrawi and Bruna Pereira de Souza
- Ch 116 Normalization
- Manouchehr Shokri
- Ch 117 Nutritional life cycle assessment
- Silvia Zingale, Alba Reguant-Closa, Thomas Nemecek and Carlo Ingrao
- Ch 118 Organizational life cycle assessment
- Alexandra Weniger
- Ch 119 Ozone depletion potential
- Lukas Messmann
- Ch 120 Pedigree matrix
- Hashem Amini Toosi
- Ch 121 Photochemical ozone creation potential
- Lars Wietschel
- Ch 122 Physical allocation
- Miguel Brandão and Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 123 Planetary boundaries
- Martina Zimek, Josef-Peter Schöggl and Rupert J. Baumgartner
- Ch 124 Positive impact
- Arij Chabrawi
- Ch 125 Poverty alleviation subcategory
- Luigia Petti and Federica Silveri
- Ch 126 Prevention and mitigation of armed conflicts subcategory
- Monika Cera
- Ch 127 Product and service
- Kamrul Islam and Masaharu Motoshita
- Ch 128 Product environmental footprint
- Pamela Haverkamp
- Ch 129 Product system model
- Kamrul Islam and Masaharu Motoshita
- Ch 130 Productivity
- Hashem Amini Toosi
- Ch 131 Product social impact life cycle assessment (PSILCA)
- Davis Jose
- Ch 132 Rebound effect
- Antonino Marvuglia
- Ch 133 ReCiPe
- Katharina Roche
- Ch 134 Recycling
- Anna Luthin
- Ch 135 Recycling rate
- Anna Luthin
- Ch 136 Reference flow
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 137 Reference scale approach
- Cinzia Capitano, Antonio Covais and Marzia Traverso
- Ch 138 Resource depletion
- Mario Grosso
- Ch 139 Resource efficiency
- Isabella Bianco
- Ch 140 Respect of indigenous rights subcategory
- Monika Cera
- Ch 141 Respect of intellectual property rights subcategory
- Luigia Petti and Bianca Maria Tragnone
- Ch 142 Safe and healthy living conditions category
- Bernadette Sidonie Libom and Alessandro Manzardo
- Ch 143 Scarcity
- Antonino Marvuglia
- Ch 144 Secure living conditions subcategory
- Davis Jose
- Ch 145 Sensitivity analysis
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 146 Sexual harassment subcategory
- Monika Cera
- Ch 147 Smallholders including farmers subcategory
- Jessica Hanafi
- Ch 148 Social benefits/social security subcategory
- Katharina Roche and Martina Zimek
- Ch 149 Social footprint and handprint
- Arij Chabrawi
- Ch 150 Social hotspot
- Gabriella Arcese
- Ch 151 Social hotspot analysis
- Davis Jose
- Ch 152 Social hotspot database
- Gabriella Arcese
- Ch 153 Social impact subcategories
- Maria Concetta Pedalà, Antonio Covais and Marzia Traverso
- Ch 154 Social indicators
- Davis Jose
- Ch 155 Social life cycle assessment
- Alexandra Weniger
- Ch 156 Social organizational life cycle assessment
- Manuela D’Eusanio
- Ch 157 Social performance measurement
- Davis Jose
- Ch 158 Social risk assessment
- Davis Jose
- Ch 159 Social sustainability
- Sonia Valdivia, Natalia A. Cano and Guido Sonnemann
- Ch 160 Social well-being
- Lucia Mancini
- Ch 161 Society stakeholder category
- Giuseppe Cecere and Lucia Rigamonti
- Ch 162 Stakeholder
- Lucia Mancini
- Ch 163 Stakeholder analysis and involvement
- Lucia Mancini
- Ch 164 Stakeholder category
- Lucia Mancini
- Ch 165 Subcategory assessment method
- Luigia Petti
- Ch 166 Substitution
- Miguel Brandão and Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 167 Supplier relationship subcategory
- Manuela D’Eusanio
- Ch 168 Sustainability
- Shammas Saleem, Antonio Covais and Marzia Traverso
- Ch 169 Sustainability improvement
- Mauro Cordella
- Ch 170 Sustainability indicators
- Rose Nangah Mankaa
- Ch 171 Sustainable development goals
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 172 Sustainable resource extraction
- Nils Jäger
- Ch 173 System boundary
- Pamela Haverkamp
- Ch 174 Transformation
- Nils Jäger
- Ch 175 Transparency subcategory
- Jana Gerta Backes
- Ch 176 Triple bottom line
- Olubukola Tokede and Sruthii Venkata Subaramani
- Ch 177 Uncertainty
- Roberta Salomone
- Ch 178 Uncertainty analysis
- Roberta Salomone
- Ch 179 Upstream
- Roberta Salomone
- Ch 180 Urban metabolism
- Giuseppe Ioppolo
- Ch 181 Urban resource harvesting
- Giuseppe Ioppolo
- Ch 182 Use stage
- Sally Springer, Petra Zapp and Christina Wulf
- Ch 183 USEtox
- Rose Nangah Mankaa
- Ch 184 Value chain actors
- Roland Meyer
- Ch 185 VIKOR
- Antonino Marvuglia
- Ch 186 Waste
- Umberto Arena, Filomena Ardolino and Francesco Parrillo
- Ch 187 Water footprint
- Markus Berger
- Ch 188 Wealth distribution subcategory
- Bruna Pereira de Souza
- Ch 189 Weighting
- Bo P. Weidema
- Ch 190 Worker health and safety subcategory
- Arij Chabrawi
- Ch 191 Workers stakeholder category
- Maria Giovina Pasca
- Ch 192 Working hours subcategory
- Maria Giovina Pasca
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