Call for abstracts: 17th SETAC Europe LCA Case Studies Symposium

SETAC Europe 17th LCA CAse study symposium  

"Sustainable lifestyles"

 Budapest, Hungary 28 February – 1 March 2011

The 17th SETAC Europe LCA Case Studies Symposium will be organised in Budapest at the Hotel Gellért. The event is planned as a two-day meeting to be conducted 28 February - 1 March 2011.

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.

Call for abstracts

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

Deadline for short abstract submission: 15 October

For further information: http://lcabudapest.setac.eu/home/?contentid=344&pr_id=343