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A comparative life cycle assessment of viscose fibers derived from cotton, wood, and bamboo pulp

Luna He, Nannan Hou, Rong Li • Industrial Crops and Products (2025)

In this work, a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach was employed to evaluate the environmental impact of viscose fibers made from cotton, wood and bamboo pulp, in accordance with the ISO 14040 standard. Utilizing SimaPro 9.5.0 software, th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.122267

Life cycle assessment of a renewable energy generation system with a vanadium redox flow battery in a NZEB household

J.R. Gouveia, E. Silva, T.M. Mata, A. Mendes et al. • Energy Reports (2020)

Buildings are responsible for a significant part of the global energy consumption. Besides the need to improve their energy efficiency, new buildings also need to generate their own energy, preferably from renewable sources, to become more ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2019.08.024

Digital footprints as a tool to evaluate the spatiotemporal environmental impacts of grocery shopping across Great Britain

Gavin Long, Evgeniya Lukinova, John Harvey, Joanne Parkes et al. • International Journal of Population Data Science (2025)

Introduction & Background Climate change represents one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Within this context, the food sector is a critical domain for intervention, accounting for approximately one-third of global greenhouse gas...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v10i5.3336

Insights into the entire building life cycle assessment (LCA): existing trends, challenges and prospective framework

Erikas Lenkevičius, Jolanta Tamošaitienė • Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management (2026)

Building sustainability assessment increasingly demands life cycle coverage that captures environmental burdens and trade-offs beyond operational energy, including embodied impacts and end of life (EoL) outcomes under circular economy (CE) ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3846/jeelm.2026.27214

Development of a BIM-based AI-driven matching tool for LCA datasets

Dino Petrosa, Pamela Haverkamp, Jana Gerta Backes, David Crampen et al. • Discover Sustainability (2025)

Abstract The construction sector significantly contributes to environmental issues and often relies on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the quantification and optimization of its environmental impacts. One of the most time- and labour-intens...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s43621-025-02203-8