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Tools |
Information |
Authority |
Financial |
Organizational |
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Procedural |
Attribute Ranking (ART) |
• Material Flow Analysis (MFA) • Substance Flow Analysis (SFA) • Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA)/Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis (EEIOA) • Input-Output Analysis, including Social Accounting Matrices (IOA, including SAM) • Material Intensity per Service Unit (MIPS) • Carbon Footprint •Scenario Development • Checklist • Forms • Questionnaires • Impact Tables |
• Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) • Life Cycle Costing (LCC) • Total Cost Assessment (TCA) • External Costs (ExternE) • E3ME (energy-environment-economy model of Europe) • Cost-effective calculation |
• Process steps | |
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Output Assessment (OAT) |
• Energy/Exergy Analysis (EA) | •Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) • Sustainability Assessment (SA) – authority tool when conducted by regulators for approval purposes but can also be classified as an organizational tool when conducted by proponents to improve internal decision-making (p.182) |
• Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM) • Partial Equilibrium Modeling (PEM) • Standard Cost Model • MARKAL (optimized bottom-up energy system model) | • Life Cycle Activity Analysis (LCAA) • Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) –SEA is process-oriented but could be authority tool in the case of the SEA Directive of the EU (p.175-6) • Life Cycle Optimisation (LCO) |
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Substantive |
Design (DT) |
• Eco-Design (EDM) · • Sustainable Process Design (SPD) | • Green Accounting (GA) | • Product Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS) |
Some examples:
a) Attribute Ranking Tools (ART):
1. Information:
- Material Flow Analysis (MFA): http://www.ingurumena.ejgv.euskadi.net/r49-6172/en/contenidos/libro/ntm/en_pub/adjuntos/ntm.pdf
- Substance Flow Analysis (SFA): http://www.cohiba-project.net/sources/results/en_GB/reports/
- Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA)/Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis (EEIOA): http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22194en.pdf
- Input-Output Analysis, including Social Accounting Matrices (IOA, including SAM)
- Material Intensity per Service Unit (MIPS): http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/59294/1/485276682.pdf
- Carbon Footprint: http://www.ireea.cn/paddy/pd_admin/web_edit/uploadfile/20100409231701762.pdf
- Scenario Development
- Checklist
- Forms
- Questionnaires
- Impact Tables: http://adam-digital-compendium.pik-potsdam.de/macro-economic-analysis/direct-impacts-1/impacts-by-region/central-europe-east-1
2. Treasury/Financial:
- Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA): http://www.cafe-cba.org/
- Life Cycle Costing (LCC): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/construction/files/compet/life_cycle_costing/guidance__case_study_en.pdf
- Total Cost Assessment (TCA): http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/03/02976.pdf
- External Costs (ExternE): http://www.ier.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/projektwebsites/newext/newext_final.pdf
- E3ME (energy-environment-economy model of Europe): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/studies_modelling/pdf/report_macroeconomic.pdf
- Cost-effective calculation: http://www.msbg.umn.edu/downloads_v2_1/4Energy_App-E-8_V2-1.pdf
3. Organizational:
- Process steps
b) Output Assessment Tools (OAT):
1. Information
- Energy/Exergy Analysis (EA): http://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/exergy-analysis-of-the-energy-use-in-greece(3c6627be-9e7c-408d-8eac-819cef748a4a).html
2. Authority
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): https://external.sp.environment.gov.ab.ca/DocArc/EIA/Pages/default.aspx
- Sustainability Assessment (SA): conducted by regulators for approval purposes but can be classified as an organizational tool when conducted by proponents to improve internal decision-making (p.182): http://www.susdev.gov.hk/html/en/su/2008habmapfinrep.pdf
3. Treasury/Financial
- Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM): http://peseta.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.htm
- Partial Equilibrium Modelling (PEM): ftp://ftp.ecn.nl/pub/www/library/report/2000/c00001.pdf
4. Organizational
- Life Cycle Activity Analysis (LCAA): http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%20%22life%20cycle%20activity%20analysis%22%20%20case%20studies%20project&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEkQFjAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwoc.uc.pt%2Fdem%2FgetFile.do%3Ftipo%3D2%26id%3D1380&ei=9G7xUZvqE4KpiALYjoAo&usg=AFQjCNFCM7Etbtq3eDXZCfpvzdg5udtvjA&sig2=oqdJOqNZH47idr
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): SEA is process-oriented but could be authority tool in the case of the SEA Directive of the EU (p.175-6) http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ENVIRONMENT/Resources/244380-1236266590146/Strategic_Environmental_A
- Life Cycle Optimization (LCO): http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS10-02.pdf
c) Design tools (DT):
1. Information
- Eco-Design (EDM)
- Sustainable Process Design (SPD)
2. Treasury/Financial
- Green Accounting (GA): http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/Fo42-312-2000E.pdf
3. Organizational
- Product Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS)