Enhancing the Adoption of Life Cycle Assessment by Small and Medium Enterprises Grouped in an Industrial Cluster: A Case Study of the Tanning Cluster in Tuscany (Italy)

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Titel: Enhancing the Adoption of Life Cycle Assessment by Small and Medium Enterprises Grouped in an Industrial Cluster: A Case Study of the Tanning Cluster in Tuscany (Italy)
Beteiligte: Daddi, Tiberio; Nucci, Benedetta; Iraldo, Fabio; Testa, Francesco
Erschienen: Wiley, 2016
Erschienen in: Journal of Industrial Ecology
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12379
ISSN: 1088-1980; 1530-9290
Schlagwörter: General Social Sciences ; General Environmental Science
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Beschreibung: <jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>Greenhouse gas emissions from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 70% of the industrial pollution in the European Union. Owing to limited economic and human resources, only a few SMEs start procedures to evaluate the environmental impact of processes and products through life cycle assessment (LCA). In this work, a cluster life cycle assessment (Cluster‐LCA) is proposed as an instrument for the diffusion and realization of LCA analysis in clustered SMEs. This methodology is illustrated with a case study in the tanning cluster in Tuscany. The different characteristics of the methodology are analyzed by identifying the intrinsic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The application of this methodology in a particular cluster is then discussed in order to gather some helpful insight for the application of this methodology in different clusters.</jats:p>

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