TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wulf, Christina
AU  - Werker, Jasmin
AU  - Ball, Christopher
AU  - Zapp, Petra
AU  - Kuckshinrichs, Wilhelm
TI  - Review of sustainability assessment approaches based on life cycles
JO  - Sustainability
VL  - 11
IS  - 20
SN  - 2071-1050
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - FZJ-2019-04892
SP  - 5717
PY  - 2019
AB  - Many different approaches have been developed to quantify and evaluate sustainability. Here a review is performed on sustainability assessment based on Life Cycle Thinking, which mostly means Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Until the end of 2018, 258 publications can be found, from which 146 include a case study. The highest number of publications appeared between 2016 and 2018 and, compared to the years before 2016, the number of authors has increased. However, in recent years the focus has been more on case studies than on methodological aspects of LCSA. The presented holistic approaches for LCSA are either too broad or too narrow for scientific guidance. Therefore, many questions concerning LCSA are still open, e.g., regarding definition of sustainability dimensions and the desire or need for multi-criteria decision-analysis. An underlying problem is the lack of discussion about sustainability concepts. The momentum in the community to perform case studies for LCSA should be used to also develop more guiding principles.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000498398900174
DO  - DOI:10.3390/su11205717
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/865441
ER  -