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FIG. 8.9 Summarization of literatures for LCSA from 2000 to 2018.

performance in the past years. The success of LCA application in those fields provides
the basis for other industries to improve their sustainability performances by using
LCA and LCSA. More LCA researches are expected to be carried out for industries like
marine engineering.
Although LCA has been widely used in sustainability management, the articles conducting
complete LCSA are very few. To figure out the current progress of LCSA results, all 61 articles
containing the keywords “life cycle sustainability assessment” in their titles were reviewed.
To clarify, only scientific journal articles were selected in this chapter, because the information
in the published articles that have been reviewed by peers is more reliable. Therefore, pro-
ceedings papers, reviews, editorial material, early access, and conference abstracts have been
excluded from the review list. From those 61 articles, 10 articles mentioning only parts of
LCSA in their article were excluded from the list. The remaining 51 articles were analyzed
for the development trend of LCSA and the application fields.