Enhancing the Adoption of Life Cycle Assessment by Small and Medium Enterprises Grouped in an Industrial Cluster: A Case Study of the Tanning Cluster in Tuscany (Italy)
| Autor: | Francesco Testa, Benedetta Nucci, Fabio Iraldo, Tiberio Daddi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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business.industry
05 social sciences Environmental resource management General Social Sciences 010501 environmental sciences Environmental economics 01 natural sciences Work (electrical) Greenhouse gas 0502 economics and business media_common.cataloged_instance Environmental impact assessment Small and medium-sized enterprises Industrial ecology European union business Human resources Life-cycle assessment 050203 business & management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20:1199-1211 |
| ISSN: | 1088-1980 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jiec.12379 |
| Popis: | Greenhouse gas emissions from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 70% of the industrial pollution in the European Union. Owing to limited economic and human resources, only a few SMEs start procedures to evaluate the environmental impact of processes and products through life cycle assessment (LCA). In this work, a cluster life cycle assessment (Cluster-LCA) is proposed as an instrument for the diffusion and realization of LCA analysis in clustered SMEs. This methodology is illustrated with a case study in the tanning cluster in Tuscany. The different characteristics of the methodology are analyzed by identifying the intrinsic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The application of this methodology in a particular cluster is then discussed in order to gather some helpful insight for the application of this methodology in different clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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