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This PhD project is a part of the Centre for Absolute Sustainability (https://sustainability.dtu.dk/).
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) involves comparisons of life cycle environmental impacts to global and regional carrying capacities. AESA has four main phases:
1. Life cycle inventory (LCI)
2. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)
3. Choice of carrying capacity
4. Assigning a share of the carrying capacity to the assessed system
The time dimension is commonly not explicitly considered across these four AESA components. However, for long-lived objects, such as buildings and infrastructures, more attention to the time dimension is needed because of variations in technology, the state of the environment, carrying capacities and socio-economic conditions. This project aims at improving the representation of changes through time throughout these four phases of AESA in order to make the methodology more suited for long-lived objects.
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) involves comparisons of life cycle environmental impacts to global and regional carrying capacities. AESA has four main phases:
1. Life cycle inventory (LCI)
2. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)
3. Choice of carrying capacity
4. Assigning a share of the carrying capacity to the assessed system
The time dimension is commonly not explicitly considered across these four AESA components. However, for long-lived objects, such as buildings and infrastructures, more attention to the time dimension is needed because of variations in technology, the state of the environment, carrying capacities and socio-economic conditions. This project aims at improving the representation of changes through time throughout these four phases of AESA in order to make the methodology more suited for long-lived objects.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 15/12/2022 → 27/04/2026 |
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