Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact
Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment
- 1st Edition - July 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka, Mariany Costa Depra
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 4 1 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 6 0 4 - 8
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Request a sales quoteSustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact: Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production, putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology is one of the most important tools of analysis, as mathematical models are applied that will quantify the systematic inputs and outputs of the processes in order to evaluate the sustainability of industrial processes and products. In this sense, LCA is mainly a tool to support environmental decision-making that analyzes the environmental impacts of products and technologies from a lifecycle perspective.
The emergence of ever-larger global issues, such as the energy dilemma, the changing climate and the scarcity of natural resources, such as water, has boosted the search for tools capable of ensuring the reliability of the results published by the industries, and has become an important tool in order to achieve sustainability and environmental preservation. Thus, lifecycle assessment (LCA), including carbon footprint valuation is necessary to ensure better internal management.
- Provides guidance on environmental impacts and the carbon footprint of industrial processes
- Features guidelines in lifecycle assessment to support a sustainable approach, along with quantifiable data to support proposed solutions
- Includes a companion website with slides and graphics to quantity environmental impact and other metrics of lifecycle assessment
Academicians and researchers in environmental sustainability, with textbook potential. Environmental engineering, chemical engineering, food engineering, civil engineering, agricultural engineering and chemistry
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Authors’ biographies
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Sustainability metrics and indicators through the life cycle assessment: A brief history
- Abstract
- Chapter 2: Fundamentals of life cycle assessment: Definitions, terminology, and concepts
- Abstract
- Phases for life cycle assessment
- Chapter 3: Methods of evaluation of the environmental impact on the life cycle
- Abstract
- Impact categories
- Categories of damage or areas of protection (endpoints)
- Chapter 4: Optional elements of life cycle impact assessment
- Abstract
- Grouping
- Normalization
- Weighting
- Chapter 5: Assistant’s tools toward life cycle assessment
- Abstract
- Life cycle thinking
- Social life cycle assessment
- Life cycle costing
- Life cycle sustainability assessment
- Chapter 6: Carbon footprint and carbon market
- Abstract
- Carbon footprint assessment standards
- Carbon certifications
- Market carbon
- Carbon credits
- Policy strategies among carbon footprint, carbon market, and carbon pricing
- Carbon market trades
- Chapter 7: The role of life cycle assessment in agricultural systems
- Abstract
- Functional unit for agricultural systems
- System boundaries
- Allocation
- Quantification bottlenecks in the life cycle inventory stage of agricultural systems
- Land use
- Fertilization of agricultural crops
- Other parameters for agricultural systems
- Chapter 8: Economic aspects of sustainability
- Abstract
- An approach to the economic aspects of corporate institutional sustainability
- An approach to the economic aspects of sustainability from the perspective of the shared economy
- An approach to the economic aspects of sustainability through sustainable added value
- Chapter 9: Sustainability metrics and indicator strategies for a modern society
- Abstract
- Sustainability tripod dimensions
- Suggestions for the development of sustainability metrics and indicators
- Beyond sustainability
- Annex
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 212
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128234112
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236048
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Eduardo Jacob-Lopes
Prof. Eduardo Jacob-Lopes is currently associate professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies, and scientific journals. He has more than 600 publications/communications and has registered 15 patents. His research interest includes biotechnology and bioengineering with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, BrazilLQ
Leila Queiroz Zepka
Dr. Leila Queiroz Zepka is currently an Associate professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has published more than 500 scientific publications/communications, which include 10 books, 50 book chapters, 100 original research papers, 350 research communications in national and international conferences, and 12 patents. She is a member of the editorial board of 5 journals and acts as a reviewer for several national and international journals. Her research interest includes microalgal biotechnology with an emphasis on microalgae-based products.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, BrazilMC
Mariany Costa Depra
Dr. Mariany Costa Deprá is currently a researcher at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. She is a technical and scientific consultant of companies and scientific journals. With more than 100 publications/communications, her research interest includes process engineering with emphasis on sustainability metrics and indicators.
Affiliations and expertise
Food Science and Technology Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, BrazilRead Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact on ScienceDirect