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## Assistant's tools toward life cycle assessment Defining sustainable industrial processes and agricultural systems is not simple. The main issues involved in these processes involve energy, feedstocks, mobility, planning, water, and wastes; and its improvements are promoted through different strategies. Thus, the viability of each strategy in environmental, economic, and social terms is fundamental to ensure sustainable global performance. Given this scenario, several efforts are being applied in research to elucidate potential strategies of quantitative methods, which aim to identify, fill, and improve the gaps associated with sustainable and social issues of industrial processes. In this way, among the main strategies development associates with life cycle assessment are life cycle thinking, life cycle costing, social life cycle assessment, and life cycle sustainability assessment. ## Life cycle thinking Life cycle thinking (LCT) is defined as the way of thinking that includes the economic, environmental, and social consequences of a product or process throughout its life. More precisely, it consists of a theoretical approach that investigates improvements and reductions in the

Author

Eduardo Jacob-Lopes; Leila Queiroz Zepka; Mariany Costa Deprá

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2021

Language

EN