Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 18, Issue 14, Pages 1376-1385Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.04.013
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Multi-criteria analysis; Innovation; Ambitec-Life Cycle; Environmental impact
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
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Environmental vulnerability analysis has been sparsely used in environmental performance evaluation (EPE) of technological innovations. The present paper proposes a methodological approach to carry out vulnerability analysis of watersheds and to integrate this analysis into methods of environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations. This approach is applied to the Ambitec-Life Cycle method, described in Part 1 (this issue) of this study. The case study of green coconut substrate compared to ripe coconut substrate, also described in Part 1 (this issue), is now presented considering the vulnerability analysis of the watersheds where the life cycle stages of these products occur. The integration of vulnerability analysis in Ambitec-Life Cycle contributes to a better understanding of the environmental aspects of agro-industrial technological innovations with potential to cause significant impacts in watersheds where these innovations are implemented. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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