LCSD

Question 1

What is LCSD?

Answer 1

• specific application of the Dashboard of Sustainability
• developed to assess communities regarding economic, social, environmental factors
• displays results in a single graphical and numerical evaluation form

Question 2

What are the four dimensions of LCSD?

Answer 2

economic, social, environmental and institutional

Question 3

How is LCSD built up?

Answer 3

Outer ring: individual indicators (CO2, water use,…)

Inner ring: index for 1 dimension by aggregating the individual indicators

The indicators used for LCA, LCC & SLCA can be used and implemented

–> software ranks all values for each indicator

The better the performance of the product, the more points it gets

Overall evaluation: arithmetical average of the topic evaluations

Question 4

What are the benefits of LCSD?

Answer 4

–User-friendly tool & make communication of complex topics easier

–Analysis of numerous sustainability data is possible

–Support community to share sustainable development goals by performance charts

Question 5

What are the challenges of LCSD?

Answer 5

• limited number of (quantitative) indicators is currently considered
• Indicator ranking does not provide information about the absolute performance, e.g. a “green-coloured” option appears to be significantly better than a “red-coloured” option, even though the actual difference may be very small
• -> best result gets 1000 points (green), worst 0 points (red)
• Different numbers of indicators for the different dimensions can be considered an indirect weighting (when many indicators need to be considered, they weigh not as much)

–Needs careful interpretation –> we apply a weighting factor of 1 and people are often not aware of it

Question 6

What weighting tool do you like better? the triangle or the dashboard?

Answer 6

Both have their advantages and disadvantages:

In my opinion, it depends a lot on who you want to communicate the results with.

dashoboard is easy to understand –> better for a broad target groups with all sorts of educational background

triangle is more specific, you can see the different weighting factors and how the result changes when changing the weighting
–> better for company decisions