Chalmers Conferences, LCM 2013

TOWARDS A PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS (LCSA)
P.J.G. Henriksson, J.B. Guinée

Last modified: 2014-09-11

Abstract


As part of the on-going SEAT (Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade)
project, an integrated approach was developed for collecting life cycle
costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA) data for several actors
throughout Asian aquaculture value chains. Parallel to this effort, also socioeconomic
data were collected, but only for grow-out farms. Because of
differences in the analytical approach for socio-economic impacts, a larger
sample of 35 farmers per farming system was selected for livelihood
surveys. Meanwhile, a wider vertical approach was taken for LCA and LCC
data at sample sizes between five and ten. Several challenges were
encountered with regards to sensitive topics, from economic information on
farms, to the number of children in China, to the use of controversial
chemicals. However, the overall outcome was an extensive database of -
what could be called - aquaculture LCSA data.

Keywords


LCSA; LCI; Asia; data collection

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