In our research work, we focus on the development and application of holistic methods capable of comprehensively analysing the environmental burden created by human society. The aim of our work is to identify where and why the environmental burdens occurs and to look for ways to reduce these burdens.
The methods we use in our work can be grouped into a wide range of two different approaches:
1)The bottom-up approach assesses the environmental burdens so-called bottom-up from specific materials, products, technologies. A typical analytical tool of this type is attributional LCA.
2) Top-down approach
Several methods can be found in the mentioned range of the aforementioned two approaches, such as consequential LCA, corporate LCA, Input-Output Analysis or so-called hybrid methods LCA-MFA or LCA-IOA. This border group of indicators also includes material circularity indicators which we develop and apply to a number of industry sectors.
In addition to environmental types of evaluation, we also deal with economic and social aspects of evaluated systems in our sustainability analyses. Here we mainly use LCA or S-LCA.