Process Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mineral economics; stakeholder management; life cycle assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to papers presenting LCA research results, with a focus on the use of LCA as a tool for evaluating the sustainability of a given engineering technology or a production process.
We propose that this sustainability metric can be measured by the contributions of these technologies and processes to their relevant UN SDGs. In many studies utilizing LCA, the resulting outcomes tend to have a static and short-term character, comparable to a snapshot in photography. However, sustainability as described by the SDGs envisages long-term effects in a dynamic context tsubject to further development. In addition, the idea ofsustainability comprises a threefold dimension, incorporating environmental, social, and economic effects of technologies and processes.
We invite contributions to this Special Issue that address the proposed framework. These may include the development of new and innovative methodological approaches and/or case studies with strong illustrative characteristics linking LCA to sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Jan C. Bongaerts
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- LCA
- social LCA
- economic valuation
- sustainability
- SDGs
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