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Modified comparative life cycle assessment of end-of-life options for post-consumer products in urban regions
Guidry, Caroline - 2008
the guidelines of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as standardized by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in ISO …
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Climate impact assessment of retail payment services
Arvidsson, Niklas; Harahap, Fumi; Urban, Frauke; … - 2024
Money and payments are central to modern economies and societies, yet there are increasing concerns over the environmental impacts of various payment services, particularly from a climate perspective. This report examines the climate impact of retail payments in Sweden in 2021, including cash,...
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Towards a holistic and integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of the bioeconomy: Background on concepts, visions and measurements
Zeug, Walther; Bezama, Alberto; Thrän, Daniela - 2020
Current economic and social systems transgress several ecological planetary boundaries by far but without sufficiently fulfilling human needs and this in a globally unequal way, posing enormous challenges to political strategies and economic structures. To tackle these challenges, under a...
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Life Cycle Assessment of honey: Considering the pollination service
Arzoumanidis, Ioannis; Raggi, Andrea; Petti, Luigia - In: Administrative Sciences 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used for the improvement of the environmental performance of products … natural ecosystems and agriculture. When implementing an LCA of an apiculture system, the pollination service can and should … of pollination as a potential basis for managing multifunctionality in LCA modelling as well as its implementation in a …
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A combined framework for the life cycle assessment and costing of food waste prevention and valorization: An application to school canteens
De Menna, Fabio; Davis, Jennifer; Östergren, Karin; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11
About one third of global edible food is lost or wasted along the supply chain, causing the wastage of embedded natural and economic resources. Life cycle methodologies can be applied to identify sustainable and viable prevention and valorization routes needed to prevent such inefficiencies....
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Techno-economic assessment of a Synechocystis based biorefinery through process optimization
da Silva, A. Ferreira; Brazinha, C.; Costa, L.; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 509-514
Similar to oil, biological origin feedstock can be converted into a number of products allowing to recover the maximum value from the raw biological material, within what is nowadays called a biorefinery. Among other biological materials, microalgae are a very interesting biomass due to the high...
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Integrating site-specific environmental impact assessment in supplier selection: exemplary application to steel procurement
Schiessl, Andreas; Müller, Richard; Volk, Rebekka; … - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 9, pp. 1409-1457
In times of fast-growing stakeholder interest in sustainability, the ecological and social perspective of industrial companies and its products is gaining increasing importance. In particular, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the automotive industry has come to the forefront of public...
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Modellregionen Elektromobilität: Umweltbegleitforschung Elektromobilität
Schallaböck, Karl Otto; Carpantier, Rike; Fischedick, … - 2012
Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung steht die Aufbereitung der Erfahrungen mit den Elektrofahrzeugen in Einzelprojekten der Modellregionen Phase I hinsichtlich der energiebezogenen Parameter und der nach Fahrzeugsegmenten differenzierte Vergleich mit herkömmlichen Fahrzeugen. In der Literatur finden...
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Umweltorientiertes betriebliches Rechnungswesen
Müller, Armin - 1995 - 2., verb. Aufl.
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