Life Cycle Engineering for Absolute Environmental Sustainability

Environmental sustainability is one of the greatest challenges of our society. Organisations around world have already committed to achieving absolute environmental sustainability targets (e.g., net-zero) by 2050. However, the majority of the initiatives are top-down hence there is an urgent bottom-up requirement for practitioners to operationalise high level environmental targets while developing technology solutions. Life Cycle Engineering for Absolute Environmental Sustainability: Fundamentals and Applications bridges the top-down policy and bottom-up engineering efforts by providing a structured approach for senior university students and industry practitioners to develop environmentally sustainable technology solutions with a life cycle and absolute sustainability perspectives. Users of the book will be able to utilise the content to operationalise life cycle engineering. Provided case studies from different industries will further enhance the usability of the book.

• Structured approach to integrating environmental sustainability into product development and organisational processes, guiding from target setting to evaluation and mitigation strategies
• Combines planetary boundaries bio-physical limits and social sustainability (eg Donut model) with life cycle thinking for comprehensive environmental impact assessment aligned with sustainability goals
• Covers key evaluation methods such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), techno-environmental and techno-economic assessments (LCC TCO), supported by ISO standards impact categories and data sources like ecoinvent
• Includes real-world examples from manufacturing biotech food construction and mining to demonstrate practical application across sectors