Life Cycle Assessment and Multi-criteria Analysis in Agriculture: Synergies and Insights
| Autor: | Stefanos A. Nastis, Basil Manos, Thomas Bournaris, Emmanouil Tziolas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Computer science
business.industry Impact assessment 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Risk analysis (engineering) Multi criteria Agriculture Sustainability Multiple criteria 021108 energy Agricultural productivity business Merge (version control) Life-cycle assessment 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Multicriteria Analysis in Agriculture ISBN: 9783319769288 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-76929-5_12 |
| Popis: | The simultaneous and increasing needs for safe and quality food products, along with the environmental and socio-economic sustainability, develop a multi-level problem with controversies and arbitrary assumptions for farmers and policy makers. In order to assess the aspect of sustainability in agricultural production, different impact assessment tools could be implemented. Although LCA gives the potential to develop alternative scenarios in order to achieve the optimal environmental performance, in the context of sustainability, at the same time subjective measures are developed which are difficult to quantify. Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is the key to solve the current weakness, since it takes into account multiple criteria in a wide assortment of aspects and thus it could integrate sustainability elements. The purpose of this study is to outline the integration of LCA and MCA methodologies and develop a complete literature review regarding the sustainability of the agricultural sector through the above mentioned methodological merge. In this review we analyze scientific papers integrating LCA and different multi-criteria methodologies in agriculture. Through this analysis, we determine the connection between the methodologies through a variety of aspects regarding (a) the number and nature of multi-criteria methods integrated with LCA, (b) the way of integration between the methods in a technical perspective and (c) the benefits developed through the integration as well as the final conclusions which could only be elicited through this complex process. Studies which implemented LCA and MCA simultaneously illustrated positive economic and environmental results, since LCA focused on environmental sustainability and the multi-criteria modeling dealt with the subjective measures of LCA. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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