Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Decision-Making. Methodologies and Case Studies

Table of Contents

1. Introduction-Life Cycle Thinking 2. Sustainability, sustainable development and business sustainability 3. Life cycle thinking tools: Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Social Life Cycle Assessment 4. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: an ongoing journey 5. Development and Applicability of Life Cycle Impact Assessment methodologies 6. Life Cycle Thinking for Sustainable Development in the Building Industry 7. MCDM for sustainability ranking of district heating systems considering uncertainties 8. Framework of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment 9. Life Cycle Decision Support Framework: Method and Case Study 10. Advancing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making 11. A Composite Life Cycle Sustainability Index for Sustainability Prioritization of Industrial Systems 12. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Decision-Making under Uncertainties 13. Multi-Criteria Decision Making After Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Under Hybrid Information 14. Life Cycle Sustainability Decision-making framework for the prioritization of electrochemical energy storage under uncertainties 15. Barriers Identification and Prioritization for Sustainability Enhancement: Promoting the Sustainable Development of Desalination Industry 16. Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis, Weighting Methods and Life Cycle Thinking: A Quantitative Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Improvement

Authors

Jingzheng Ren Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China. Jingzheng Ren is Assistant Professor of Modelling for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been nominated as adjunct/honorary associate professor of University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and associated senior research fellow of the Institute for Security & Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ren serves as board member of several scientific journals and published more than 150 papers, authored 1 book, edited more than 10 books and published more than 40 book chapters. His research focuses on process system engineering for better sustainability and mathematical models for solving energy and environmental problems and promoting sustainability transition Sara Toniolo Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. Dr. Toniolo is a researcher in the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), sustainability management and assessment. She is an active member in Italian LCA Network on the definition of LCA approaches for the tourism sector. She has written several papers on LCA with a focus on methodological aspects concerning the development of life cycle inventories and the application of case studies.