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Jasinski, Dominik, Meredith, James O. and Kirwan, Kerry (2016) A comprehensive framework for automotive sustainability assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135 . pp. 1034-1044. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.027 ISSN 0959-6526.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.027
Abstract
Business efficiency, stakeholder pressure and the need for legislative compliance compel the automotive sector to design and manufacture fuel-efficient, low-impact, environmentally responsible and sustainable vehicles. Managing and responding to these multiple and sometimes conflicting interests requires the measurement of economic, environmental and societal performance. Although a number of automotive sustainability measures are mentioned within the literature, there is no single and unique approach for the complete and integrated sustainability assessment of vehicles. This study has developed a comprehensive automotive sustainability assessment framework by selecting a set of sustainability assessment criteria from the literature and refining these through an interview study with 24 automotive experts from academia, car manufacturers, consultancies and non-governmental organisations. Based on this approach, 26 midpoint and 9 end-point environmental, resource, social and economic impact categories have been identified for the construction of a framework for automotive sustainability assessment. The proposed framework can be used as a decision-supporting tool at the early stages of the vehicle development process. It allows source and sustainability issues to be identified throughout the entire vehicle life cycle and provides the means to sharpen analysis and discussion around these issues. The framework can also serve as a design structure for a wide range of sustainability assessment methods and tools (e.g. multi-criteria decision adding or sustainability accounting methods). It serves as guidance on what needs to be measured in an integrated sustainability assessment of vehicles and leaves the choice of what to include in the decision-making process to the discretion of individual companies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sustainability, Transportation, Automotive | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Cleaner Production | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0959-6526 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 6 July 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 135 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1034-1044 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.027 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 July 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 July 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Jaguar PLC | ||||||||
Grant number: | EP/I01585X/1 (EPSRC) |
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