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FIG. 8.11 The number of each types of articles reviewed published from 2008 to 2019.

To summarize the application fields of LCSA, LCSA literature with case studies are listed
in Table 8.3 with indicating the purpose of LCSA used in this article. There are nine categories
summarized from all literature including agriculture, chemistry, construction, energy, envi-
ronment protection, food, logistics, manufacturing, and transportation. Among all categories,
energy sources selection, construction related cases, and transportation are the three major
application fields of LCSA. This application trend of LCSA matches the core application fields
of LCA, as discussed previously.

TABLE 8.3 Summarization of LCSA literature with case studies.
Case category Title Purpose Year Reference
Agriculture Simplified life cycle sustainability assessment of Improvement 2010 (Moriizumi
mangrove management: a case of plantation on et al., 2010)
wastelands in Thailand
Tiered life cycle sustainability assessment applied to a Selection or 2018 (Chen and
grazing dairy farm ranking Holden, 2018)
Evaluation of sustainable innovations in olive Selection or 2018 (De Luca
growing systems: a life cycle sustainability ranking et al., 2018)
assessment case study in southern Italy
Chemistry Life cycle sustainability assessment of chemical Evaluation of 2017 (Xu et al.,
processes: a vector-based three-dimensional technology 2017)
algorithm coupled with AHP
Life cycle sustainability assessment for sustainability Improvement 2017 (Hannouf and
improvements: a case study of high-density Assefa, 2017)
polyethylene production in Alberta, Canada
Construction Building a sustainability benchmarking framework of Benchmarking 2019 (Garcı ´a-
ceramic tiles based on life cycle sustainability Muin ˜a et al.,
assessment (LCSA) 2019)
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