LCSA: how to carry it out and integrate and communicate its results - illustration with four case studies

Mike Ashby

Chapter 19 in Handbook on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, 2024, pp 262-278 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, Social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing characterize the environmental, social and economic performance of a product or service over part or all of its life. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment brings these together to create a comprehensive, full-circle portrait of the life of a product. It is not simple. The three assessments use impact categories that differ and are mutually incompatible. They can’t simply be summed. One way to present the information in an informative way is as a dashboard. To make it, the many impact categories of each assessment are grouped under a small set of proxies. The proxies are represented by a stack of bars, color-coding those that fail to meet best practice, are ethically questionable or offer opportunities for improvement to distinguish them from those that meet or exceed them. The dashboard allows in-the-round comparison of competing products, or of a product with a benchmark representing best practice.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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