The Methodological Development of Regional Sustainability Analysis
Keywords:
LCA, sustainable developmentAbstract
Keeping in mind the needs to preserve the environment and quality of life, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been
developed to meet these needs. At present the main two direction of LCA research are to fulfil the requirement of the broader
sustainable development concept and to somehow do away with previously dominating product-specific, plant-level modelling
techniques. The Regional LCA Competence Laboratory – based in the Institute of World and Regional Economics – has recently
been working on the elaboration of a demonstrative project which can serve the ambitious goal of finding a way to successfully
combine the advantages of the above-mentioned approaches. In this paper we summarise the various sustainability models and
introduce our regional sustainable development model proposal.
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