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Towards a comprehensive sustainability methodology to assess anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems : review of the integration of Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecosystem Services Assessment Ghent University University of Antwerp Flanders Marine Institute
Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Ecosystem Services Assessment (ESA). However, none can individually assess both the positive and negative impacts of human activities at different geographical scales in a comprehensive manner. In order to overcome the shortcomings of ...
Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education: Evaluating the Use of the Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education (AISHE) in Belgium KU Leuven
Assessing the integration of sustainability in higher education can be a powerful lever for organisational change in higher education institutions. When comparing the available tools and instruments for assessment of sustainability in higher education, the Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education (AISHE) has proven to be a reliable tool, providing a qualitative approach to sustainability assessment. This article presents the ...
Towards integrated sustainability assessment for energetic use of biomass: A state of the art evaluation of assessment tools KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Biomass is expected to play an increasingly significant role in the ‘greening’ of energy supply. Nevertheless, concerns are rising about the sustainability of large-scale energy crop production. Impacts must be assessed carefully before deciding whether and how this industry should be developed, and what technologies, policies and investment strategies should be pursued. There is need for a comprehensive and reliable sustainability assessment ...
Towards a Sustainability Assessment of Hospital Buildings in Flanders: Development of a Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment Tool KU Leuven
Over the past decade, the interest in how hospital buildings are designed and operated has considerably increased. With the urge to decrease the negative impacts of the building stock around the world, hospitals are equally called upon to respond to this matter. As hospital buildings are very complex and, in most cases, also large-scale buildings (in terms of large buildings or clustering of several buildings), it is a real challenge to assess ...
Sustainability assessment of a Flemish office building with Level(s): a Level 1 assessment KU Leuven
Recently, Level(s) has been developed by the European Commission as a common EU framework to assess sustainability of buildings with the intention to provide a consistent and comparable framework across national boundaries. It aims at providing a general language for sustainability for buildings and to promote life cycle thinking. This paper describes the application and results of a Level 1 assessment for the design stage of a Flemish office ...