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Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies

From Science to Innovation

  • Illustrates how Life Cycle Management is or can be integrated into business practice, thereby creating sustainability within organizations

  • Provides thorough insight into Life Cycle Management, its origin, evolution and state of practice, including progress made and current challenges

  • Sketches the operationalization of Life Cycle Management in organizations and its linkage to business value creation

  • Contributors from both research and practice domains offer the reader a qualified and comprehensive understanding of this dynamic and increasingly relevant field of business practice

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Table of contents (57 chapters)

  1. LCM, Circular Economy and Product Value Chain

    1. Neuro-marketing Tools for Assessing the Communication Effectiveness of Life Cycle Based Environmental Labelling—Procedure and Methodology

      • Anna Lewandowska, Barbara Borusiak, Christian Dierks, Pasquale Giungato, Ewa Jerzyk, Przemyslaw Kurczewski et al.
      Pages 163-173Open Access
  2. Innovation for Sustainable Production and Urban Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. LCM for Transport and Mobility

      • Stephan Krinke, Mara Neef
      Pages 177-180Open Access
    3. Conceptual Development of Hybrid Structures Towards Eco-Efficient Vehicle Lightweighting

      • Alexander Kaluza, Tim Fröhlich, Sebastian Kleemann, Wolfgang Walk, Christoph Herrmann, Stephan Krinke et al.
      Pages 181-191Open Access
    4. LCA in Strategic Decision Making for Long Term Urban Transportation System Transformation

      • Florian Ansgar Jaeger, Katrin Müller, Cornelia Petermann, Eric Lesage
      Pages 193-204Open Access
    5. Management of Construction Waste: LCA and Complex System Modeling

      • Anne Ventura, Maxime Trocmé
      Pages 205-210Open Access
    6. Guidelines for Effective and Sustainable Recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste

      • Serena Giorgi, Monica Lavagna, Andrea Campioli
      Pages 211-221Open Access
    7. Is It Useful to Improve Modelling of Usage Scenarios to Improve the Environmental Footprint of Energy-Using Product?

      • Charlotte Heslouin, Véronique Perrot-Bernardet, Lionel Pourcheresse, Nicolas Perry
      Pages 231-241Open Access
    8. Integrating Energy System Models in Life Cycle Management

      • Miguel F. Astudillo, Kathleen Vaillancourt, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Ben Amor
      Pages 249-259Open Access
    9. LCM at the Urban Scale: BIM and Nature Based Solutions

      • Antonino Marvuglia, Benedetto Rugani, Germain Adell
      Pages 261-267Open Access
    10. Design-Integrated LCA Using Early BIM

      • Alexander Hollberg, Julia Tschetwertak, Sven Schneider, Guillaume Habert
      Pages 269-279Open Access
    11. A Proposition to Extend CityGML and ADE Energy Standards for Exchanging Information for LCA Simulation at Urban Scale

      • Adélaïde Mailhac, Emmanuelle Cor, Marine Vesson, Elisa Rolland, Pascal Schetelat, Nicoleta Schiopu et al.
      Pages 281-291Open Access
    12. Dynamic Assessment of Nature Based Solutions Through Urban Level LCA

      • Duygu Başoğlu, Emre Yöntem, Seda Yöntem, Beril Şenyurt, Özge Yılmaz
      Pages 293-305Open Access
  3. Development of LCM Methods and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-311
    2. The Value of Transdisciplinary Perspectives During Transition to a Bio-based Economy: The Prospect for Converting Mixed Food Waste into Bio-based Chemicals

      • Birgit Brunklaus, Emma Rex, Johanna Berlin, Frida Røyne, Johanna Ulmanen, Graham Aid
      Pages 327-335Open Access

About this book

This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and management of smart agricultural systems, smart mobility systems, urban infrastructures and energy for the built environment. The book is based on papers presented at the 8th International Life Cycle Management Conference that took place from September 3-6, 2017 in Luxembourg, and which was organized by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the University of Luxembourg in the framework of the LCM Conference Series. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department ERIN—Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Enrico Benetto, Mélanie Guiton

  • Department of Engineering, University of Luxembourg, Campus Kirchberg, Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Kilian Gericke

About the editors

Enrico Benetto is a successfull R&D manager at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) with 10 years experience and proven reputation in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), ecodesign and innovation of industrial systems and technologies. Dynamic, energetic, visionary and team/project-oriented professional that successfully created and developed an independent consulting firm and then created and manages a LCA research team.

Dr. Kilian Gericke is senior researcher in the Research Unit in Engineering Science of the University of Luxembourg. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, Germany. After receiving his diploma in 2005 he worked at the Technische Universität Berlin until 2010 as Research Associate and obtained his PhD in 2011. Since 2010 he works at the University of Luxembourg in the Engineering Design and Methodology group which is part of the Research Unit in Engineering Science.Dr. Gericke is lecturing courses on Machine El


ements, Systematic Product Development and Sustainable Development and is supervising student design projects. His main research interests are in systematic product development and design process management. In his work he analyses potentials and ways of exchanging and adapting methods and systematic design approaches across different design disciplines. Dr. Gericke is chair of the Design Society's Special Interest Group on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP). 

 

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