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Environmental accounting

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Work and High Mobility in Europe

The high work-related mobilities concern a significant proportion of the active population and condition novel lifestyles. This chapter describes the practices and discourses of the people concerned by these high mobilities, challenge a number of preconcep ...

ISTE Wiley2023

Process-oriented Life Cycle Assessment framework for environmentally conscious manufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud

Environmental concern requires manufacturers to extend the domain of their control and responsibility across the product's life cycle. Much of the research has concentrated on assessment of environmental performance through the application of the Life Cycl ...

Springer2017

Environmental impact assessment of lignocellulosic lactic acid production: Integrated with existing sugar mills

Pavel Vaskan

Lactic acid (LA) is considered for the diversification and value addition to sugar industry in South Africa, through a bioconversion of sugarcane bagasse and leaves. A bioconversion process was modeled in Aspen Plus (R) V8.6 and its environmental impacts w ...

Institution of Chemical Engineers2016

A virtual screening approach to identifying the greenest compound for a task: application to switchable-hydrophilicity solvents

Luc Patiny, Philip Gregory Jessop

A virtual or in silico screening approach makes it much easier to identify the molecular structure that best combines efficacy for a specific task with safety and minimum environmental or health impacts. In this approach, software is used to generate a lar ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

The computational structure of environmental life cycle costing

Vincent Moreau

Existing computational methods for life cycle costing (LCC) are few and appeared inconsistent with the very definition of LCC. This article improves the common matrix-based approach in life cycle assessment as applied to LCC, correcting previous errors. Re ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

Assessing the life cycle costs and environmental performance of lightweight materials in automobile applications

Véronique Michaud, Christian Ludwig, Jérôme Payet, Robert Andrew Witik

Life cycle assessment (LCA) and manufacturing focused life cycle costing are used to evaluate the potential advantages of composites in automotive applications. The life cycle costs and environmental performance of several suitable lightweight polymer comp ...

2011

Integrated sustainability assessment for local projects : environmental impact and their connections with economic and social fields

Tourane Corbière

Introduction In 1987, the need to strive towards development aimed at making it possible to satisfy the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations is generally acknowledged. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 propagated Agenda 211, whi ...

EPFL2005