Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact

Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment

Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Zepka, Mariany Depra
Elsevier S&T
212 pages
ISBN: 978-0128234112
July 2021

This book covers trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production, putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology is one of the most important tools of analysis, as mathematical models are applied that will quantify the systematic inputs and outputs of the processes in order to evaluate the sustainability of industrial processes and products. In this sense, LCA is mainly a tool to support environmental decision-making that analyzes the environmental impacts of products and technologies from a lifecycle perspective.