The interest in consumption-based emission and resource accounting has grown
significantly. Many studies juxtapose consumer emissions (carbon footprint) and producer …

In order to reduce our environmental impact, methods for environmental assessment of
human activities are urgently needed. In particular in the case of assessment of land …

Life cycle assessment methodology was applied in this study to calculate environmental
impacts of a 3.5-km-long dual carriageway asphalt highway section case study in Abu Dhabi …

The concept of urban metabolism has often been used to model and analyze urban regions
to provide insights on their environmental sustainability. However, no consensus exists on …

Biofuels are fuels produced from biomass, mostly in liquid form, within a time frame
sufficiently short to consider that their feedstock (biomass) can be renewed, contrarily to …

Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodological framework that estimates
environmental impacts of products, systems or services in a life cycle perspective (from …

In recent years, the Circular Economy (CE) has gained worldwide attention as an effective
alternative economic system to the current take-make-waste model of production and …

This review analyses and compares the most promising methods to perform ex ante
economic and environmental assessment of policies at the meso scale, ie from local …

Addressing the spatial dimension in life cycle assessment (LCA) appears to be a promising
avenue to reduce the uncertainty of LCA results. However, to our knowledge, there is no …

Purpose Since the implementation of the European directive (EC/2001/42) on strategic
environmental assessment, an ex ante evaluation has become mandatory for plans and …