Dimensionality Reduction and Visualization of the Environmental Impacts of Domestic Appliances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19467660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ester Gutiérrez (0000-0001-9642-3195, Universidad de Sevilla), Sebastián Lozano (0000-0002-0401-3584, Universidad de Sevilla), Belarmino Adenso-Dı́az (0000-0002-6519-9810, Universidad de Oviedo), Belarmino Adenso‐Díaz |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 878-889 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Industrial Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-1980 • E-ISSN: 1530-9290 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2010.00291.x |
| OpenAlex | W1964651540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
There is an increasing worldwide concern about the problem of dealing with the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), given the high volume of appliances that are disposed of every day. In this article, an environmental evaluation of WEEE is performed that combines life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and multivariate statistical techniques. Because LCA handles a large number of data in its different phases, when one is trying to uncover the structure of large multidimensional data sets, multivariate statistical techniques can provide useful information. In particular, principal‐component analysis and multidimensional scaling are two important dimension‐reducing tools that have been shown to be of help in understanding this type of complex multivariate data set. In this article, we use a variable selection method that reduces the number of categories for which the environmental impacts have to be computed; this step is especially useful when the number of impact categories or the number of products or processes to benchmark increases. We provide a detailed illustration showing how we have used the proposed approach to analyze and interpret the environmental impacts of different domestic appliances
Curse of dimensionality · Data mining · Dimensionality reduction · Environmental data · Industrial ecology · Life-cycle assessment · Machine learning · Multidimensional scaling · Multivariate statistics · Principal component analysis · Sustainability · Visualization · Computer Science · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Mathematics · Municipal Solid Waste Management · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |