Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Aspect Overview for Sustainable Urban Planning for Development
Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship SCEE '2021: Organized within the 62nd International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University: Book of Abstracts 2021
Ģirts Zariņš, Jānis Vanags

Increasing awareness of sustainable urban development, methods for evaluation of plans and actual city status are becoming more critical. One of accepted and used as standardized assessment is Life Cycle Assessment, what is also defined as ISO standard. Research Focus: Perform literature overview and analysis for the LCA application specifics for urban development planning Research question: Identify relevant specific aspects of LCA, for sustainable urban planning and relevant boundaries. Background: Performing a Life Cycle Assessment is process to evaluate the environmental impact associated with a product, process or activity. LCA includes specifics for relevant Level of Details (LOD) of identifying input materials, energy used and generated waste to the environment, with the methodology for assessing the potential environmental aspects and improvements by: • Identifying relevant inputs and outputs *(Input/Output), • evaluating the environmental impacts associated with inputs and outputs identified (Impact), • interpreting the results and impact phases (Dynamic) reflecting to the objectives of the assessment performed. Findings and conclusions: Research identified several potential challenges upon application of method: 1. Method requires detailed data, thus, for existing cities, collection of data and building model, would require extensive research of AS IS, 2. Methods requires setting a framework for city (models), what can be specific for particular city, thus comparison between different cities individual models, have include data or result transformation methodology, 3. Focused and planning of long term model maintenance (cost allocation/efficiency). Recommendation: LCA is applicable method to use for sustainable urban development and planning assessment.


Atslēgas vārdi
y planning, ISO 14040, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Lifecycle, Sustainable development.
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Zariņš, Ģ., Vanags, J. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Aspect Overview for Sustainable Urban Planning for Development. No: Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship SCEE '2021: Organized within the 62nd International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University: Book of Abstracts, Latvija, Rīga, 14.-15. oktobris, 2021. Riga: RTU Press, 2021, 55.-55.lpp. ISBN 978-9934-22-678-6. ISSN 2256-0866.

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