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Aggregating midpoint-indicator results from Environmental Product Declarations for comprehensive evaluations of products' profiles, through the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach: An application in the Durum-Wheat Pasta Sector
| العنوان: | Aggregating midpoint-indicator results from Environmental Product Declarations for comprehensive evaluations of products' profiles, through the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach: An application in the Durum-Wheat Pasta Sector |
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| المؤلفون: | Ingrao, Carlo, Matarazzo, Agata, Lagioia, Giovanni, Słowiński, Roman |
| المساهمون: | Ingrao, Carlo, Matarazzo, Agata, Lagioia, Giovanni, Słowiński, Roman |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: CINECA IRIS |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Classification problem, Decision rule, Dominance-based Rough Set Approach, Environmental Product Declaration, Midpoint indicator, Pasta life cycle |
| الوصف: | To-date there is an unsolved methodological problem for the type-III labelling scheme, namely the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), that essentially derives from the midpoint approach used for the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which the EPD itself is based upon. As a matter of fact, in the current EPD system, it is impossible to perform univocal aggregated evaluations of the product's profile, due to the different equivalent unit-of-measures which the midpoint impacts are expressed with, and to the absence of a scientifically-based, objective scheme for aggregation and weighing. The authors wanted to undertake this challenge with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness and utility of EPDs to guide managers, consumers and other stakeholders in the promotion, distribution, and consumption of sustainable products, in the context of green public procurement. To achieve this goal for the case of durum-wheat pasta, the EPD was complemented by the authors with the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA). In result, an aggregate preference model considering all impact categories was obtained, thereby leading to comprehensive comparisons of complete environmental profile of products. The model has the form of a set of minimal decision rules, that can be used by producers for understanding the environmental performance level of their pasta products, and subsequently making strategic decisions for its improvement. Seven of those rules were determined from DRSA application, that regarded grain production and milling, package manufacturing, and a comprehensive downstream phase that included the disposal of the packaging system, and the pasta cooking with water waste disposal. In addition to this, those rules primarily considered the following midpoint categories within the ensemble of those provided by the EPD system for pasta products: acidification, eutrophication, global warming, and mineral element depletion. All of them were certain rules: three of the “at least” type (two at least good, and one at least medium); ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| Relation: | volume:106; journal:ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW; https://hdl.handle.net/11586/474086; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85189164860 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107492 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/11586/474086 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107492 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.94BB32E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107492 |
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