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Modern sustainability assessments increasingly require dynamic integration of life cyclce assessment (LCA) results with engineering simulations for systems optimization, real-time decision support, and multi-physics modeling. While Brightway-based LCA makes this integration more feasible than end-to-end software stacks (e.g., SimaPro, OpenLCA), coupling with external simulation environments...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), both in theory and practice, has traditionally relied on a strict distinction between the environment and the economy. Weidema et al. (2018) proposed a conceptual shift by relaxing this boundary and unifying economic activities and environmental mechanisms within an extended techno-biosphere matrix. In this formulation, environmental feedbacks can be represented in...

Regioinvent is a novel, open-source Python framework designed to work seamlessly with Brightway to unlock the full potential of regionalization within the ecoinvent database. The tool systematically generates thousands of contextualized activity datasets by adapting key local parameters, such as electricity mixes, heat production, and waste treatment, to specific national contexts. This allows...

Energy System Models (ESMs) are powerful tools for designing and assessing energy transition scenarios, but their environmental scope is typically restricted to direct carbon emissions during the operation phase. This narrow framing overlooks the full life-cycle burden of energy infrastructure — from manufacturing to end-of-life — as well as a broad range of impact categories beyond climate...