Life-cycle Cost Approach for Management of Environmental Resources A Primer - Reddy, V. Ratna; Kurian, Mathew; Ardakanian, Reza.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
1. Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA): Rationale and Relevance -- 1.1 What Is LCCA and Why?- 1.2 LCCA and Green Economy -- 1.3 LCCA and Sustainable Services -- 2. Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA): Framework and Concepts -- 2.1 The Framework -- 2.2 Cost Components -- 2.3 Discount Rates, Annualisation and Functional Unit -- 2.4 Components of Life-Cycle Model -- 2.5 Ris K-Based Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Simulations -- 2.6 Methods and Tools of Environmental Impacts -- 3. LCCA Applications In Infrastructure and Other Projects: Some Case Studies -- 3.1 LCCA Application in the Real World -- 3.2 Case Studies (A): Construction; Power; Roads; etc -- 3.3 Case Studies (B): Natural Resource Based Projects Like Drinking Water and Sanitation (WASH); Crop Systems (Paddy); Agro-Processing (Bio-Ethanol, etc) -- 3.4 Case Studies (C): LCCA Application in the Developing Country Context -- 3.5 Good Practices of LCCA -- 3.6 Constraints and Challenges in the Application of LCCA in the Developing Countries.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Environment; Environmental management; Agriculture; System theory; Sustainable Development; Environment, general; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Agriculture; Complex Systems