Integrating life cycle assessment and life cycle cost: a review of environmental-economic studies

摘要: The purpose of this document is to carry out a critical review the existing literature by specifically addressing following: (i) integration life cycle assessment and cost from perspective research topics, category scope study, authors, institutions, countries, journals working on or publishing related studies, (ii) main aids, challenges, opportunities, methodological difficulties, current efforts integrated approach both tools. A systematic was conducted identify studies with an use in several areas. An analysis aspects identified, such as bibliographic reference, year publication, institution where conducted, country, area application, journal impact factor, number citations conducted. After search Science Direct, Scopus, Web databases, 349 documents were identified. series filters (excluding gray literature, reading titles keywords, abstracts, full-texts), which helped ruling articles that did not contribute investigating assessment, 90 selected for detailed analysis. leading role USA European countries issue should be highlighted. seems most advanced areas building design civil construction. Different strategies methodologies are also found, being mathematical modelling programming optimization, multi-criteria decision-making recurrent methods. Moreover, there more challenges than opportunities said integration. include monetization environmental impacts, higher volatility economic data compared data, differences background data. These can turned into development comprehensive approaches. Challenges (e.g., time-, resource- knowledge-intensive, different scopes) common system boundaries, benefitting LCA structure conduct LCC) This combined allows projects, products, services reduce quantified through improved potential trade-offs.