Sustainable Production, Consumption, and Policy Applications of Life Cycle Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 665
Special Issue Editor
Interests: life cycle sustainability assessment; monetary valuation; recycling; stock-flow consistent modelling; consequential market modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Collegaues,
The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides an urgent motivation for the development of data-driven assessments of the most efficient ways to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. With its decision-oriented, consequential focus, life cycle assessment can provide important contributions to this, especially when broadened to include both the beneficial and detrimental impacts on the natural, manufactured, human, social, and financial resources. It is particularly important to ensure stock and flow consistent modelling, applicable across both business and government decisions, and at the level of products, projects, and organisations. We welcome papers that report on the theoretical developments or practical implementations that contribute to meeting these challenges.
Prof. Dr. Bo Pedersen Weidema
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- UN 2030 Agenda
- Sustainable Development Goals
- decision-support
- consequential life cycle assessment
- natural, manufactured, human, social, and financial resources
- stock and flow consistent modelling
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