Chapter 2. Risk and Life-Cycle Frameworks for Sustainability1
2.1. Introduction
Sustainability issues are complex, and understanding their interactions with equally complex engineered systems is best done through well-structured analysis frameworks. Risk-based frameworks have traditionally been used in the characterization and prioritization of environmental issues, and the first section of this chapter describes those frameworks. Increasingly, however, life-cycle frameworks are gaining prominence as a means of characterizing and understanding sustainability. The second major section of this chapter introduces life-cycle frameworks and their uses.
2.2. Risk
Understanding risk frameworks for environmental and sustainability issues requires an ...
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