Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact

Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact: Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers the main trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production giving emphasis to Life cycle 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, analyzing the environmental impacts of products and technologies in a life cycle perspective. The emergence of ever-larger global issues, such as the energy dilemma, the changing climate and the scarcity of natural resources such as water, has boosted the search for tools capable of ensuring the reliability of the results published by the industries, and has become an important tool in order to achieve sustainability and environmental preservation. Thus, life cycle assessment (LCA) including carbon footprint valuation is necessary to ensure better internal management to add knowledge in an attempt to promote cleaner production, improve eco-efficiency and assist in economic calculations in industrial processes. This important information for those involved in environmental science and technology, sustainable consumption and cleaner production. Provides guidance on environmental impact and carbon footprint of industrial processes, in order to provide cleaner production initiatives and support environmentally conscious decision-makingFeatures guidelines in life cycle assessment to support a sustainable approach, with quantifiable data to support proposed solutions Companion website includes slides and graphics to quantity environmental impact and other metrics in life cycle assessment