SETAC Europe 17th LCA CAse study symposium - Sustainable lifestyles.

"Sustainable lifestyles"

This symposium is aimed at strengthening the life-cycle approach in our everyday life. The changing of lifestyles plays an essential role in the creation of more environmentally sustainable communities. A significant part of a community’s natural resources is used at the household level. Households are also a major source of a community’s environmental pollution.

This Case Study Symposium aims at bringing together initiatives, methods and case study results that contribute to a better understanding of the various dimensions concerning what a sustainable lifestyle can look like. The symposium seeks to cover studies on defining sustainable production and consumption patterns, including studies on nutrition, housing, mobility and tourism. It will be interesting to see case studies to stimulate new developments facilitating the measurement of sustainable consumption.

Presentations on environmental and socio-economic studies are both appreciated. Studies toward footprints (e.g. carbon, water, land, toxicants) on various levels of organisation (e.g. households or municipalities) in various regions of the world are welcome as well. Furthermore, we expect case studies that can present the role of LCA in the strategic or political decisions and law regulation shaping the lifestyle toward sustainability.

Themes and topics

1. Sustainable production and consumption 
2. Defining sustainable lifestyles (nutrition, living, washing, traffic, tourism) 
3. The environmental and socio-economic dimension of sustainable lifestyles 
4. New developments facilitating the measurement of sustainable consumption 
5. Carbon, water, land and pollution footprints for households and communities 
6. Resource utilization and waste management by municipalities
7. Governance and lifestyle

Important dates

• 15 October Deadline for short abstract submission
• 5 November Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection
• 12 November Deadline early registration
• 15 December Deadline extended abstract submission for accepted abstracts
• 20 January Notification Platform/Poster presentation
• 14 February Deadline pre-registration

   

  15 October	Deadline for short abstract submission
  5 November	Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection
  12 November	Deadline early registration
  15 December	Deadline extended abstract submission for accepted abstracts
  20 January	Notification Platform/Poster presentation
  14 February	Deadline pre-registration