Foreword -- Introduction to the handbook on life cycle sustainability assessment / Sonia Valdivia and Guido Sonnemann -- Part I: Sustainability and life cycle thinking -- 1. An Introduction to sustainable development and lcsa / Fritz Balkau, Alberto Bezama and Guido Sonnemann -- 2. Evolution of life cycle thinking as Part of the global sustainable consumption and production agenda / Philip Strothmann and Jim Fava -- 3. Sustainability as a megatrend in business / Agnieszka Kowalska and Joanna Syrda -- 4. Showcasing life cycle management / Pia Wiche and Natalia Cano -- Part II: Life cycle sustainability assessment methodology and data -- 5. Introduction to the basics of life cycle sustainability assessment focusing on the unep/setac life cycle initiative lcsa framework / Marzia Traverso and Sonia Valdivia -- 6. Life cycle assessment / Noémie Leroy-Parmentier, Pia Wiche and Guido Sonnemann -- 7. Life cycle costing / Erasmo Cadena and Gwenny Thomassen -- 8. Social life cycle assessment / Lindsey Roche, Catherine Benoît Norris and Sonia Valdivia -- 9. The product social impact assessment / Mark Goedkoop, Ilonka de Beer, Rosan Harmens and Diana Indrane -- 10. Commonly agreed life cycle sustainability assessment principles: Examples in construction, challenges and feasibility / Jana Backes, Marzia Traverso and Sonia Valdivia -- 11. Defining the goal and scope for life cycle sustainability assessment / Noémie Leroy-Parmentier, Sonia Valdivia and Guido Sonnemann -- 12. Collecting, assessing and using data for lcsa / Marie Loubert, Claudia Di Noi and Andreas Ciroth -- 13. Data for lcsa -- state of the art and outlook / Thomas Sonderegger, Emilia Moreno Ruiz, Till M. Bachmann, Marco Bianchi, Rosan Harmens and Alessandra Zamagni -- 14. Life cycle inventory analysis & modelling in lcsa: From basic aspects to advanced techniques / Thomas Schaubroeck and Enrico Benetto -- 15. Key performance indicators and benchmarking values / Jana Backes and Marzia Traverso -- 16. Monetization for integration of lcsa results -- state of the art and perspectives / Till M. Bachmann, Rosalie Arendt and Jonathan van der Kamp -- 17. Sustainability impacts: Multicriteria decision-making and weighting factors / Maurizio Cellura, Anna Irene De Luca, Nathalie Iofrida and Marina Mistretta -- 18. Sustainability product declarations for communicating lcsa results in sustainable procurement / Sven-Olof Ryding, Claudia Peña and Sonia Valdivia -- Part III: Life cycle sustainability assessment: Sectoral and policy applications -- 19. Lcsa: How to carry it out and integrate and communicate its results -- illustration with four case studies / Mike Ashby -- 20. Sustainability assessments of chemical products / Peter Saling -- 21. Application of the ten lcsa principles of the life cycle initiative: The perspective of the building sector / Olubukola Tokede and Anastasia Globa -- 22. Life cycle sustainability assessment of emerging mobility technologies: Perspective, challenges, and future directions / Nuri C. Onat and Murat Kucukvar -- 23. Life cycle sustainability management in policy frameworks -- responsible sourcing / Lucia Mancini, Andreas Endl and Alexander Graf -- 24. Policy implications / Bernard Mazijn -- 25. Towards a future product sustainability footprint in the eu / Mauro Cordella, Hanna Pihkola, Tiina Pajula and Alessandra Zamagni -- Part IV: Emerging developments and conclusions -- 26. Mineral resource criticality assessment in lcsa / Jair Santillán Saldivar, Anish Koyamparambath and Guido Sonnemann -- 27. Life cycle sustainability thinking for measuring and assessing circularity towards sustainable procurement / Claudia Pe-a, Sven-Olof Ryding, Sigita Zidonienė and Jair Santillán Saldivar -- 28. Business drivers, barriers and opportunities for mainstreaming lcsa / Shaniq Pillay and Eric Meiras -- 29. Lcsa in the regions -- state of the art, mainstreaming conditions and upscaling approaches / Sonia Valdivia, Natalia Cano, Iveth Rojas and Guido Sonnemann -- 30. Handbook on life cycle sustainability assessment: Take-aways and outlook / Guido Sonnemann, Sonia Valdivia and Elizabeth Neuhaus.

Proporcionado por el ed.: "This Handbook presents the state-of-the-art of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) practice and provides guidance for its implementation and outlook for future work. Spotlighting sustainability analysts, managers and overall decision-makers from private and public sectors as well as experts in academia, it covers the historical background and current global context for life cycle sustainability assessment, methods and data management advancements. Highlighting best practices on how LCSA is used for each of the sustainability pillars (environmental, economic, and social) from a life cycle perspective, the Handbook illustrates how results can then be integrated into the decision-making process. Its use of sectoral and policy cases also illustrates the feasibility of using these results when putting in place life cycle sustainability management. Chapters further investigate developments like responsible sourcing and the transition to a circular economy requiring consideration for expanding the uptake of LCSA by global markets, and low- and middle-income countries. The Handbook on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment will be an excellent resource for academics and researchers who are interested in both social sciences and natural sciences and engineering. It will also be of great interest to business, professionals and policy makers who are interested in not only the environment but also in important social and economic considerations as we move towards a low carbon and more sustainable future economy"