Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development

Preface

Foreward

Section 1. Introduction - Providing the context

1. Summary

2. Sustainable regional development in a life cycle context (Fritz Balkau, Stefania Massari, Guido Sonnemann)

3. Regional development and frameworks for sustainable development (Donatella Porrini, Fabrizio Striani)

4. Financial instruments and procedures for sustainable regional development investments (William Rivenbark, Fritz Balkau)

5. Life cycle approaches to improve resource efficiency in a regional context (Guido Sonnemann, Philip Strothmann, Fritz Balkau)

6. Life cycle management for regions (Fritz Balkau, Guido Sonnemann)

Section 2. Analytical basis for life cycle approaches

7. Ecological footprint principles and methodology (Marcello Ruberti, Stefania Massari)

8. Environmentally extended input output analysis for sustainable regional development (Eskinder Gemechu, Guido Sonnemann. Francesc Castells, Isabela Butnar, Maria Llop)

9. Material flow accounts (Aldo Femia, Renato Marra Campanale)

10. Life cycle assessment - LCA (Giuseppe Tassielli, Pietro Renzulli, Bruno Notarnicola)

11. Carbon footprint principles (Harish Jeswani)

12. Water footprint principles (Philippe Loubet, Guido Sonnemann)

13. System dynamic and spatial modelling in LCA (Bertrand Laratte, Guido Sonnemann)

14. Towards life cycle sustainability assessment, including social life cycle assessment (Bernard Mazijn)

15. Organizational life cycle assessment for regional and local organizations (Julia Martinez-Blanco, Atsushi Inaba, Matthias Finkbeiner)

Section 3. Converting analysis into life cycle tools

16. Certification, standardisation and instruments for regional sustainable development- a life cycle view (Cristiana Reho, Pia Wiche)

17. Eco-design and Product-Service Systems (Ben Walker)

18. Eco-labels in sustainable development (Ben Walker)

19. Life cycle basis of sustainable procurement (Fritz Balkau)

20. Industrial ecology and sustainable performance of business parks (Jean-Francois Valles)

21. Natural resource use efficiency and economic productivity (Pierluigi Toma, Stefania Massari, Pier Paolo Miglietta)

22. Environmental and Landscape Management System ( ELMS) (Riccardo Beltramo)

23. Environmental product declarations to support regional development (Annik M. Fet)

Section 4. Using life cycle approaches at regional level

24. Ecological footprint: a local policy perspective (Pier Paolo Miglietta, Federica De Leo, Pierluigi Toma)

25. Economic analysis of regional sustainability - Hungary (Klara Szita Tothne, Judit Roncz)

26. Circular economy and regional implications (Fritz Balkau)

27. Life cycle management for regional development in France: example of building sector (Naeem Adibi, Marie Darul, Vanessa Pasquet, Christelle Demaretz, Christian Traisnel)

28. From product LCAs to territorial LCAs: methodological principles (Eleonore Loiseau, Philippe Roux)

29. Integrated life cycle and risk assessment of human health impacts in Catalonia (Guido Sonnemann, Marta Schuhmacher, Francesc Castells)

30. LCA application in regional waste management in Chile (Alberto Bezama)

31. Water footprint assessment at the regional level (Guoping Zhang, Mesfin M. Mekonnen)

32. Carbon footprint of biofuels (Harish Jeswani)

33. Sustainable procurement based on life cycle costing (Bernard Mazijn)

34. Sustainable performance of industrial parks (Jean-Francois Valles)

35. Sustainable redevelopment of degraded land and landscapes (Peter Whitbread-Abrutat)

Section 5. Integrated use of life cycle approaches in key economic sectorS

36. Sustainable agri-food chains and LCA (Bruno Notarnicola, Pietro Renzulli, Giuseppe Tassielli)

37. Integration of LCA, LCC and social LCA for assessing a bioeconomy region (Alberto Bezama, Anke Siebert, Jakob Hildebrandt, Daniela Thraen)

38. Responsible Mining - from a life cycle to a stewardship approach (Ross Hamilton, Andrew S. Parsons)

39. Trends and Considerations of Renewable Energy Development: A Regional Perspective (Mark Radka, Giulia Ferrini, Agathe Laure, Ravina Brizmohun)

40. Closing the loop: the example of Packaging (Massimo Lombardi)

41. Life cycle aspects of the Walloon wood sector (Nelle Thyssen, Vanessa Zeller )

42. Global warming assessment of Himalayan buildings (Silu Bhochhibhoya, Raffaele Cavalli)

43. Integrated waste management and resource recovery in India (Asha Panwar)

44. Biodiversity restoration and sustainable tourism in South-western Australia (Keith Bradby)

Section 6. Life cycle perspectives for regional socio-economic development

45. Synthesis - Life cycle approaches and perspectives for sustainable regional development (Guido Sonnemann, Fritz Balkau)