کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8101378 1522116 2016 30 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Use of Life Cycle Assessment methodology in the analysis of Ecological Footprint Assessment results to evaluate the environmental performance of universities
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
استفاده از روش ارزیابی چرخه زندگی در تجزیه و تحلیل نتایج ارزیابی اثرات زیست محیطی برای ارزیابی عملکرد محیطی دانشگاه ها
کلمات کلیدی
ارزیابی چرخه حیات، ارزیابی اثرات زیست محیطی، دانشگاه ها، محدوده، واحد عملیاتی، مرزهای سیستم،
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی های تجدید پذیر، توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست
چکیده انگلیسی
The assessment of the environmental performance of an organization is an essential part of the decision-making process of an Environmental Management System. Having robust indicators enables a reliable assessment. The Ecological Footprint Assessment is used in different types of organizations, including universities. Its ability to clearly communicate over-consumption by using a land-base unit is an advantage when involving the university community in achieving better environmental performance. However, its lack of standardization makes it difficult to use as an indicator. It is believed that Life Cycle Assessment offers a framework with which to standardize the Ecological Footprint Assessment. In this paper, an Ecological Footprint Assessment considering Life Cycle Assessment methodology is developed as a case study for Universitat Politècnica de València. Findings regarding the critical decisions of the methodology are compared with 23 Ecological Footprint Assessments of universities using a Life Cycle Assessment framework. Only 26% of the studies analyzed reference the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Critical decisions such as defining a Functional Unit were relevant but not standardized, while the definition of the product system was the most standardized and homogeneous decision. The difficulty of gathering information when Environmental Management Systems are not available makes the Ecological Footprint Assessment a weak indicator. Nevertheless, results show that Life Cycle Assessment can guide an Ecological Footprint Assessment methodology where comparability and reliability is possible.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production - Volume 133, 1 October 2016, Pages 43-53
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