LCA: Sustainability life cycle assessment in the framework of the circular economy: a methodology for decision-making

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LCA: Sustainability life cycle assessment in the framework of the circular economy: a methodology for decision-making

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Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) refers to the evaluation of all environmental, social and economic negative impacts caused by a process, product and/or service and highly influences the decision-making processes towards more sustainable products throughout their life cycle.

Increasing interest in methods to better understand and address the impacts of products along their life cycle has been stimulated by a growing global awareness of the importance of protecting the environment; an acknowledgment of the risks of trade-offs between possible impacts associated with manufactured and consumed products; and the necessity of taking account of climate change issues and biodiversity from a holistic perspective.

Potential and future decision-makers, stakeholders, enterprises and consumers can benefit from LCSA in different ways, for example: giving a normalized quantitative value which may be easily compared and making them more competitive; providing a more comprehensive picture of the positive and negative impacts along the product life cycle, stimulating innovation in order to become more responsible thanks to the design of improvements of the product life cycle; showing transparent information of benefits of products designed according to sustainable pillar, supporting consumers in determining which products are not only cost-efficient, eco-efficient or socially responsible, but also more sustainable.

In consequence, it is necessary to encourage the development of courses to apply a minimum of ‘life cycle literacy’ to university students across various disciplines by increasing the availability, visibility and quality of their teaching on life cycle thinking but also encouraging critical systems thinking.

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The origin of the students which may be interested in this summer school is expected to be multiple, as the course topic can be applied to many different areas and disciplines. For that reason, the students which could be interested in this summer course are: