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This chapter discusses how to integrate sustainability and environmental impacts into capital budgeting decision-making by including: life-cycle-assessment (LCA), life-cycle costing (LCC), eco-efficiency (EE) and full-cost accounting (FCA) appraisal techniques. This comprehensive investment analysis – from “cradle to grave”- provides a template by which hidden environmental costs and benefits can be identified, analyzed and priced thus resulting in a better prediction of cash flows. The model also integrates environmental risks into the risk-rate component of the cost of capital by developing a sustainability risk-rate and sustainability-cost NPV that captures the sustainability exposure of each capital project alternative.
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Kimbro, M.B. (2013). Integrating Sustainability in Capital Budgeting Decisions. In: Taticchi, P., Carbone, P., Albino, V. (eds) Corporate Sustainability. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37018-2_5
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