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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
卷 23, 期 4, 页码 972-985出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12842
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allocation; environmental assessment; industrial ecology; scenario analysis; sensitivity analysis; territory
This paper highlights the methods and parameters used to define and design a reference scenario to be compared with an industrial symbiosis (IS) scenario using the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. To this end, a critical review was conducted of 26 peer-reviewed papers using LCA in the field of IS. The analysis focuses on the definition and design of reference scenarios through five cross-analyses to determine correlations between the type and the number of reference scenarios and the type of IS scenarios studied and also some LCA characteristics such as the functional unit, the type of data used, and the use of sensitivity analysis. Results show that the definition of reference scenarios depends mainly on the type of IS scenario considered. For a current IS developed at an industrial scale, the suitable reference scenario is mainly a hypothetical nonsymbiotic reference scenario. For a prospective IS, the suitable reference scenario is mainly a current nonsymbiotic reference scenario. Due to this critical review, the problem of variability of reference scenarios emerges. To resolve it, the authors analyze different reference scenarios or use sensitivity analysis. What is more, territorial aspects are rarely taken into account in the design of reference scenarios. It is clearly a gap for LCA of IS because of the influence of territorial factors. The new research challenge is to include the consideration of territorial aspects to define and design the worst- and best-case reference scenarios to assess strict environmental performances of IS.
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