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Treatise on Sustainability Science and Engineering pp 153–171Cite as

Environmental Assessment and Strategic Environmental Map Based on Footprints Assessment

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The life cycle assessment (LCA) method is introduced as a powerful tool to assess the environmental impact of product/services. Some important limitations have been evidenced in the past years, including data quality and collection, definition of system and time boundaries, multi-functionality and allocation, occupational health. The environmental performance strategy map (EPSM) is a novel graphical representation reception the strength of ecological footprint and life cycle analyses. The use of EPSM has a potential as an environmental evaluation and strategic environmental map based on the various footprints such as carbon footprint, water footprint, energy footprint, emission footprint, work environment footprint, etc. This graphical method allows the use of these footprints with an additional dimension of cost.

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  1. Centre for Process Integration and Intensification—CPI2, Research Institute of Chemical Technology and Process Engineering—MŰKKI, University of Pannonia, Egyetem Utca 10, 8200, Veszprém, Hungary

    Jiří Jaromír Klemeš & Luca De Benedetto

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  1. Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, Inst. for Sustainable Manufacturing(ISM) Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    I.S. Jawahir

  2. Nat. Risk Management Research Lab-USEPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    S.K. Sikdar

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering and M, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Y. Huang

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Klemeš, J.J., De Benedetto, L. (2013). Environmental Assessment and Strategic Environmental Map Based on Footprints Assessment. In: Jawahir, I., Sikdar, S., Huang, Y. (eds) Treatise on Sustainability Science and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6229-9_10

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