Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)

Contents
About the Editor
Evolution of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Decade of Conception
		1.2 Decade of Standardization
		1.3 Decade of Elaboration
		1.4 Decade of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
	2 Analysis of Paper Focusing on LCSA
	3 Life Cycle Attributes (Three Dimensions of Sustainability)
		3.1 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (E-LCA)
		3.2 Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
		3.3 Social Life Cycle Assessment
	4 Conclusion
	References
A Sustainability Assessment Framework for the Australian Food Industry: Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Circular Economy
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Research Background
	2 Materials and Methods
	3 Descriptive Analysis
	4 Results
		4.1 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
		4.2 Circular Economy Concepts and Principles
	5 The Proposed ‘Food Systems Sustainability Assessment Framework’ (FSSAF)
		5.1 Sustainability Assessment Studies
		5.2 The Proposed Framework
	6 Conclusions and Further Studies
		6.1 Conclusions
		6.2 Further Studies
	References
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Methodology and Framework
	1 Introduction
	2 LCSA Methodology
		2.1 LCSA Goal and Scope Definition
		2.2 LCSA Inventory
		2.3 LCSA Impact Assessment
		2.4 Interpretation
	3 Development in LCSA Tool
	4 Establishing Relationship Between Three Pillars of Sustainability
		4.1 Identifying Variables of the Process Chain
		4.2 Creating a Causal Loop Diagram
	5 Conclusion
	References
Application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment to Evaluate the Future Energy Crops for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Perspectives of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
		1.2 The Energy Crops
		1.3 Perennial Energy Crops
		1.4 Resource-Utilization-Efficiency (RUE)
		1.5 Ecological Paybacks
	2 Methodological Characteristics
		2.1 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
		2.2 Ecological Impact Assessment (EIA)
		2.3 Financial Study of Crop Breeding
		2.4 Demographic/Socioeconomic Analysis
		2.5 Ecological Facets of Perennial Crops Production and Use
		2.6 Influence of Climate on Perennial Crops
		2.7 Local Impacts on Perennial Crop Production
	3 Financial and Socioeconomic Features of Perennial Crop Manufacture
		3.1 Monetary and Financial Features of Perennial Crop Manufacture
	4 Case Study on OPTIMA Project
		4.1 Sustained Crops and Cost Chains
		4.2 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
		4.3 Evaluation of Sustained Grasses and Application Options
		4.4 Environmental Impact Assessment
		4.5 Cost-Effective Analysis
		4.6 Socioeconomic Analysis
	5 Concluding Remarks
	References
Sustainable Development: ICT, New Directions, and Strategies
	1 Main Concepts
	2 Evolution of the Concepts
	3 True Business Sustainability
		3.1 Sustainability Reporting
		3.2 New Global Approaches to Sustainability
		3.3 The Importance of ICT Within the LCSA
	4 Case Studies
		4.1 Case Study Details
		4.2 Results—A Results Section
		4.3 Discussion
	5 New Directions and Strategies
	6 Conclusions
	References
Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Building and Energy Retrofit Design—An Investigation into Challenges and Opportunities
	1 Introduction
	2 Sustainability and Development; The Roots and Evolution
	3 Sustainability Assessment of Buildings—A Life Cycle Approach
	4 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the Decision Context—Challenges and Opportunities of Decision-Making Models in Building LCSA
	5 Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Buildings—The Case of Building Energy Refurbishment
		5.1 LCA in Building Energy Retrofitting; A Review on Methods and Assumptions
		5.2 LCC in Building Energy Retrofitting; Indicators and Economic Parameters
		5.3 SLCA in Building Energy Retrofitting; The Implementation Level
	6 LCSA Challenges; A Classification of the Open Challenges and a Discussion on Emerging Solutions in the Literature
		6.1 Integrated LCSA Models—Multi-dimensional LCSA Studies and Application of Optimization Methods
		6.2 BIM-Based LCSA—A Solution for Data Management and Processing
	7 Conclusion
	References
Evaluating the Sustainability of Feedlot Production in Australia Using a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework
	1 Introduction
	2 Case Study
		2.1 Goal and Scope
		2.2 System Boundaries and Functional Unit
		2.3 Model Description
		2.4 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Inventory
		2.5 Life Cycle Sustainability Impact Assessment
		2.6 Sustainability Assessment Results
		2.7 Proposed Recommendations and Analysis for Sustainable Beef Production in Feedlots
	3 Discussions
	4 Conclusions and Further Studies
		4.1 Conclusions
		4.2 Further Studies
	References
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Study of Conventional and Prefabricated Construction Methods: MADM Analysis
	1 Introduction
	2 Methodology
		2.1 Life Cycle Assessment
		2.2 Life Cycle Inventory and Life Cycle Impact Assessment
		2.3 Life Cycle Costing
		2.4 Multi-attributes Decision-Making
	3 Case Study
	4 Results
		4.1 Embodied Energy
		4.2 Greenhouse Gas Emission
		4.3 Life Cycle Costing
		4.4 Multi-attributes Decision-Making
		4.5 Discussion
	5 Conclusion
	Appendix 1
	Appendix 2
	Appendix 3
	References