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THE LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT APPROACH APPLIED TO TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION - Developing a support instrument for Cultural Heritage Management within a Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking perspective
Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) and the Circular Economy (CE) concept might delineate a convergence point between growth and sustainability, in a general context as well as in an urban environment. The CE paradigm, indeed, introduces a new perspective to look at the industrial ecosystem, where the economic growth is decoupled from resource consumption and pollutant emissions as end-of-life materials and products are conceived as resources rather than waste (Sauvé et al., 2015). LCT introduces a holistic viewpoint, which considers all the lifecycle aspects of a product system or a service, from the extraction of the raw materials to the end-of-life of the latter. Both LCT and CE are implementable using a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) approach where all the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, social and economic) are taken into account in order to set the right targets and improve the efficacy and efficiency of production systems or services. However, the latter are still far from being reached at a global level, due to a lack of practical examples of LCT implementation, to an uneducated mind-set and to missing regulations. In particular, the tangible Cultural Heritage (CH) field is lacking a clear and applicable instrument to support conservation management decisions and the emission of related regulations and directives. The Cultural Heritage field recalls what can be considered another hotspot in the scientific and political agendas, in a sustainable development perspective: urban environment and cities growth management. Recovering, conservation and valorisation of Cultural Heritage - in particular built CH - are part of a transition management process for the urban environment towards more sustainable cities. Being a shared, non-replaceable, unique resource and a common good confronted with important environmental challenges and possible under-funding, looking after CH to avoid neglect and possible decay is a common responsibility. The management of cultural heritage requires continuous ...
THE LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT APPROACH APPLIED TO TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION - Developing a support instrument for Cultural Heritage Management within a Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking perspective
Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) and the Circular Economy (CE) concept might delineate a convergence point between growth and sustainability, in a general context as well as in an urban environment. The CE paradigm, indeed, introduces a new perspective to look at the industrial ecosystem, where the economic growth is decoupled from resource consumption and pollutant emissions as end-of-life materials and products are conceived as resources rather than waste (Sauvé et al., 2015). LCT introduces a holistic viewpoint, which considers all the lifecycle aspects of a product system or a service, from the extraction of the raw materials to the end-of-life of the latter. Both LCT and CE are implementable using a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) approach where all the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, social and economic) are taken into account in order to set the right targets and improve the efficacy and efficiency of production systems or services. However, the latter are still far from being reached at a global level, due to a lack of practical examples of LCT implementation, to an uneducated mind-set and to missing regulations. In particular, the tangible Cultural Heritage (CH) field is lacking a clear and applicable instrument to support conservation management decisions and the emission of related regulations and directives. The Cultural Heritage field recalls what can be considered another hotspot in the scientific and political agendas, in a sustainable development perspective: urban environment and cities growth management. Recovering, conservation and valorisation of Cultural Heritage - in particular built CH - are part of a transition management process for the urban environment towards more sustainable cities. Being a shared, non-replaceable, unique resource and a common good confronted with important environmental challenges and possible under-funding, looking after CH to avoid neglect and possible decay is a common responsibility. The management of cultural heritage requires continuous ...
THE LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT APPROACH APPLIED TO TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION - Developing a support instrument for Cultural Heritage Management within a Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking perspective
TOMASETTA, CAMILLA (author) / Tomasetta, Camilla / ZUCCHELLA, ANTONELLA
2017-05-04
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Electronic Resource
English
Sustainability , Cycle , Life , Assessment
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