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Targeting Environmental and Technical Parameters through Eco-Efficiency Criteria for Iberian Pig Farms in the dehesa Ecosystem

Javier García-Gudiño,
Elena Angón,
Isabel Blanco-Penedo,
Florence Garcia-Launay and
José Perea

Agriculture2023, 13(1), 83;https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13010083

28 December 2022

Eco-efficiency could be defined as the simultaneous ability to achieve acceptable economic results with the least possible environmental degradation. Its analysis in crop and livestock production systems has become a hot topic among politicians and s...

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Improving Energy Efficiency of Barley Production Using Joint Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Optimization Approach

Zahra Payandeh,
Ahmad Jahanbakhshi,
Tarahom Mesri-Gundoshmian and
Sean Clark

Sustainability2021, 13(11), 6082;https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116082

28 May 2021

Eco-efficiency has become a cornerstone in improving the environmental and economic performance of farms. The joint use of life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA), known as LCA + DEA methodology, is an expanding area of resear...

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Is Labor a Suitable Input in LCA + DEA Studies? Insights on the Combined Use of Economic, Environmental and Social Parameters

Diego Iribarren and
Ian Vázquez-Rowe

Soc. Sci.2013, 2(3), 114-130;https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci2030114

5 July 2013

Economic, social and environmental dimensions are usually accepted as the three pillars of sustainable development. However, current methodologies for the assessment of the sustainability of product systems fail to cover economic, environmental and s...

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Assessing Energy and Environmental Efficiency of the Spanish Agri-Food System Using the LCA/DEA Methodology

Jara Laso,
Daniel Hoehn,
María Margallo,
Isabel García-Herrero,
Laura Batlle-Bayer,
Alba Bala,
Pere Fullana-i-Palmer,
Ian Vázquez-Rowe,
Angel Irabien and
Rubén Aldaco

Energies2018, 11(12), 3395;https://doi.org/10.3390/en11123395

4 December 2018

Feeding the world’s population sustainably is a major challenge of our society, and was stated as one of the key priorities for development cooperation by the European Union (EU) policy framework on food security. However, with the current trend of n...

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Lifecycle Assessment and Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Sustainable Concrete Incorporating Recycled Aggregates

Yi Zheng,
Qian Li,
Ling Zhou,
Fei Gao,
Zuiliang Deng,
Jun Wang,
Zhanggen Guo and
Haixia Ding

Sustainability2025, 17(5), 1779;https://doi.org/10.3390/su17051779

20 February 2025

In recent decades, the construction industry in China has experienced significant growth, leading to substantial consumption of non-renewable natural resources and a large amount of construction and demolition waste (CDW). As a result, the effective...

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Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

Anthony Halog and
Yosef Manik

Sustainability2011, 3(2), 469-499;https://doi.org/10.3390/su3020469

23 February 2011

The need for integrated methodological framework for sustainability assessment has been widely discussed and is urgent due to increasingly complex environmental system problems. These problems have impacts on ecosystems and human well-being which rep...

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