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The main objective of this chapter is to provide a brief introduction to how life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) evolved, explaining each dimension of sustainability assessment. The key to achieving this sustainable development goal is the protection of the environment. Environmental life cycle assessment (E-LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. The chapter starts by explaining how E-LCA has developed from simply energy analysis to a comprehensive environmental burden analysis, and also how it has broadened the scope of LCA from studying only environmental impacts to covering all three sustainability aspects (environmental, economic, and social). Further, the analysis of the research paper focusing on sustainability assessment has been done using the keyword analysis and database search method followed by explaining each sustainability dimension which will give a brief insight of overall sustainability assessment.

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Shrivastava, S., Unnikrishnan, S. (2021). Evolution of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. In: Muthu, S.S. (eds) Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4562-4_1

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