Integration of Life Cycle Analysis, EnternE, and Economic Models to Sustainable Regional Development

该项目涉及制定一个新的决策框架，以支持区域内向可持续性过渡。该方法的基础是整合生命周期分析、外部性成本计算和传统经济分析方法，以评估经济、环境和社会结果之间的权衡。这些技术的结合将使发展决定的正面和负面影响的相对大小能够作为一个经济单位进行报告。这将使经济、环境和社会考虑之间的权衡得以量化，并使发展或规划情景的可持续性得以评估。

This project involves the development of a novel decision-making framework to support the transition to sustainability within regions. The approach is based on integrating the methodologies of Life Cycle Analysis, externality costing and traditional economic analysis to assess the tradeoffs between economic, environmental and social outcomes. The integration of these techniques will allow the relative magnitude of positive and negative impacts of development decisions to be reported as an economic unit. This will allow the tradeoffs that occur between economic, environmental and social considerations to be quantified and the sustainability of a development or planning scenario to be assessed.