Environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations – Part 2: methodological approach for performing vulnerability analysis of watersheds
| Autor: | Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo, Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues, Francisco Suetônio Bastos Mota, Morsyleide de Freitas Rosa, Fernando Antônio Sousa de Aragão, Vicente de Paulo Pereira Barbosa Vieira, Armando Caldeira-Pires |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Engineering
Product life-cycle management Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Vulnerability assessment Strategy and Management Environmental resource management Environmental impact assessment business Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 18:1376-1385 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.04.013 |
| Popis: | Environmental vulnerability analysis has been sparsely used in environmental performance evaluation (EPE) of technological innovations. The present paper proposes a methodological approach to carry out vulnerability analysis of watersheds and to integrate this analysis into methods of environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations. This approach is applied to the Ambitec-Life Cycle method, described in Part 1 (this issue) of this study. The case study of green coconut substrate compared to ripe coconut substrate, also described in Part 1 (this issue), is now presented considering the vulnerability analysis of the watersheds where the life cycle stages of these products occur. The integration of vulnerability analysis in Ambitec-Life Cycle contributes to a better understanding of the environmental aspects of agro-industrial technological innovations with potential to cause significant impacts in watersheds where these innovations are implemented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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