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| Author: | Ny, H. (et al.) |
| Title: | Sustainability constraints as system boundaries: an approach to making life-cycle management strategic |
| Journal: | Journal of industrial ecology
2006 : WINTER/SPRING, VOL. 10:1-2, p. 61-77 |
| Index terms: | environmental protection life cycles sustainable development |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | One of the most rigorous methods of sustainable management is life-cycle assessment (LCA). Nevertheless, LCAs often lack a sustainability perspective and bring about difficult trade-offs between specifity and depth, on the one hand, and comprehension and applicability, on the other. This paper applies a framework for strategic sustainable development (often referred to as The Natural Step (TNS) framework) based on backcasting from basic principles for sustainability. The aim is to foster a new general approach to the management of materials and products, here termed "strategic life-cycle management". |
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