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Use of life cycle assessment methodology in the analysis of ecological footprint assessment results to evaluate the environmental performance of universities

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dc.contributor.author Lo-Iacono-Ferreira, Vanesa G. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Torregrosa López, Juan Ignacio es_ES
dc.contributor.author Capuz-Rizo, Salvador F. es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2016-11-16T13:19:36Z
dc.date.available 2016-11-16T13:19:36Z
dc.date.issued 2016-10-01
dc.identifier.issn 0959-6526
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/74208
dc.description.abstract The assessment of the environmental performance of an organization is an essential part of the decision making process of an Environmental Management System. Having robust indicators enables a reliable assessment. The Ecological Footprint Assessment is used in different types of organizations, including universities. Its ability to clearly communicate over-consumption by using a land-base unit is an advantage when involving the university community in achieving better environmental performance. However, its lack of standardization makes it difficult to use as an indicator. It is believed that Life Cycle Assessment offers a framework with which to standardize the Ecological Footprint Assessment. In this paper, an Ecological Footprint Assessment considering Life Cycle Assessment methodology is developed as a case study for Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. Findings regarding the critical decisions of the methodology are compared with 23 Ecological Footprint Assessments of universities using a Life Cycle Assessment framework. Only 26% of the studies analyzed reference the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Critical decisions such as defining a Functional Unit were relevant but not standardized, while the definition of the product system was the most standardized and homogeneous decision. The difficulty of gathering information when Environmental Management Systems are not available makes the Ecological Footprint Assessment a weak indicator. Nevertheless, results show that Life Cycle Assessment can guide an Ecological Footprint Assessment methodology where comparability and reliability is possible. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. es_ES
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Elsevier es_ES
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Cleaner Production es_ES
dc.rights Reserva de todos los derechos es_ES
dc.subject Life Cycle Assessment es_ES
dc.subject Ecological Footprint Assessment es_ES
dc.subject Universities es_ES
dc.subject Scope es_ES
dc.subject Functional Unit es_ES
dc.subject System Boundaries es_ES
dc.subject.classification PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA es_ES
dc.subject.classification INGENIERIA QUIMICA es_ES
dc.title Use of life cycle assessment methodology in the analysis of ecological footprint assessment results to evaluate the environmental performance of universities es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.046
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers Industrials es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alcoy - Escola Politècnica Superior d'Alcoi es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Lo-Iacono-Ferreira, VG.; Torregrosa López, JI.; Capuz-Rizo, SF. (2016). Use of life cycle assessment methodology in the analysis of ecological footprint assessment results to evaluate the environmental performance of universities. Journal of Cleaner Production. 133:45-53. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.046 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod S es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.046 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 45 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 53 es_ES
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 133 es_ES
dc.relation.senia 315470 es_ES
dc.identifier.eissn 1879-1786


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