Towards integrating the ecosystem services cascade framework within the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) cause-effect methodology

B Rugani, DM de Souza, BP Weidema, J Bare… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The assessment of ecosystem services (ES) is covered in a fragmented manner by
environmental decision support tools that provide information about the potential …

Assessment of life cycle impacts on ecosystem services: promise, problems, and prospects

B Othoniel, B Rugani, R Heijungs… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
The analysis of ecosystem services (ES) is becoming a key-factor to implement policies on
sustainable technologies. Accordingly, life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods are …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for integrating ecosystem services as endpoint impacts in life cycle assessment

A Hardaker, D Styles, P Williams, D Chadwick… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment is an analysis technique used to assess the environmental burdens of
products or production processes. Ecosystem services is a concept used to understand the …

Towards an optimal coverage of ecosystem services in LCA

EM Alejandre, PM van Bodegom, JB Guinée - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Our society relies on the sustained provisioning of ecosystem services (ES), while such
provisioning has been negatively affected by human activities. Recently, several authors …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a comprehensive sustainability methodology to assess anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems: Review of the integration of Life Cycle Assessment …

LVDL Peña, SE Taelman, N Préat, L Boone… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global
impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …

Rethinking the area of protection “natural resources” in life cycle assessment

J Dewulf, L Benini, L Mancini, S Sala… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) in classical life cycle assessment (LCA) aims at
analyzing potential impacts of products and services typically on three so-called areas of …

Accounting for ecosystem services in life cycle assessment, part II: toward an ecologically based LCA

YI Zhang, A Baral, BR Bakshi - Environmental science & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Despite the essential role of ecosystem goods and services in sustaining all human
activities, they are often ignored in engineering decision making, even in methods that are …

Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services

D Arbault, M Rivière, B Rugani, E Benetto… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite the increasing awareness of our dependence on Ecosystem Services (ES), Life
Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) does not explicitly and fully assess the damages caused by …

A systematic review of life cycle sustainability assessment: Current state, methodological challenges, and implementation issues

D Costa, P Quinteiro, AC Dias - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is a tool to assess sustainability from a life
cycle perspective, which has been receiving increased attention over the years. This work …

The integration of economic and social aspects in life cycle impact assessment

BP Weidema - The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2006 - Springer
DOI: http://dx. doi. org/10.1065/lca2006. 04.016 Goal, Scope and Background Although both
cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) have developed from …