Organizational Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (OLCSA) for a Higher Education Institution as an Organization: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Wafaurahman Wafa,Amir Hamzah Sharaai,Sabrina Abdullah J Ho,Nitanan Koshy Matthew,Noor Ahmad Akhundzada

doi:10.3390/su14052616

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052616

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Feb 24, 2022
Citations: 6	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kabul University

Abstract

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is an approach utilized for products to analyze their sustainability indicators. However, no definite study has determined the sustainability of an organization using the LCA approach. This review focuses on a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of the OLCSA in University. The literature was searched in the Scopus online database considering PRISMA guidelines, and VOSviewer software was used for three types of bibliometric analysis, i.e., co-authorship, co-occurrence, and co-citation were analyzed with their units of analysis. The results show that there is no specific study that has found or assessed the LCSA of an organization. However, 17 articles on O-LCA and 2 on SO-LCA were found, and there were numerous articles available about ELCC in the literature. Researchers mostly used UNEP guidelines for O-LCA, in line with ISO standards. However, they used NPV for E-LCC. Based on VOSviewer software, Matthias Finkbeiner, Forin, Martínez-Blanco Julia, Berger Markus, Lehman, Loss, Manzardo, Scipion, Hall, and Weldu are co-authors. The keyword of “life cycle” was broadly used, and the most cited source was the “International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment”. Adoption of the LCSA framework is recommended for O-LCSA studies to estimate organizations’ sustainability, and to ensure quality education contributing the fourth SDGs.

Highlights

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutralWith the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the UnitedNations has reiterated the importance of taking immediate measures to protect natural resources and the environment
There are some articles about organizational life cycle assessment (LCA) (O-LCA), Social organizational LCA (SO-LCA), and Environmental life cycle costing (E-life cycle costing (LCC)) to integrate for organizational life cycle sustainability assessment (OLCSA), and the method used in these studies will be adopted for OLCSA studies
OLCSA is a new approach adopted from [27] the Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework, which consists of LCA + LCC + S-LCA

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutralWith the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the UnitedNations has reiterated the importance of taking immediate measures to protect natural resources and the environment. The key reason for this focus is that global challenges, such as climate change, water shortages, and resource depletion, are hurting people’s lives and upsetting national economies, restricting the possibility of global sustainable development. In this setting, an increasing number of businesses have realized the importance of using tools and processes to help them make decisions about how to reduce the environmental impacts of their products and activities [1]. The life cycle assessment used for organizations considers the UNEP/SETAC 2015 [3] guidelines. This problem and lack of information motivated the authors to conduct a systematic literature review about organizational life cycle sustainability assessment (OLCSA), especially about universities with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

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