Together with colleagues from the Technische Unviersität Braunschweig, we have developed a new method for differentiated economic assessment in the context of holistic life cycle assessments. An article on this topic has now been published under the title “DEALA - A Novel Economic Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method for Differentiated Economic Assessments in the Context of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments”.
This paper introduces DEALA, a novel economic life cycle impact assessment method that addresses key challenges like transparency and comparability for economic assessment. DEALA offers:
- Predefined business economic impact categories at different aggregation levels for flexible evaluation and presentation of results.
- A structured framework for detailed economic impact assessments.
- Integration with tools like Brightway2 for flexible and scalable applications.
- Joint assessment of economic, environmental, and social impacts based on joint life cycle inventories as part of LCSA studies.
- Insights for improving sustainability in complex systems, demonstrated through a case study of a battery supply chain.
The full article is available (open access) here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584
