2013/01/01 by Julie Auberger, Hayo van Der Werf, Auberger, Julie +7
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #0 #Agriculture and Rural Development Research #Analyse multicritère #Durabilité #Plate-forme informatique #Système de production
paper · doi:10.17180/yywe-nq98
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2018/06/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
The MEANS platform (Multi-critEria AssessmeNt of Sustainability), launched in 2012, will allow research teams of INRA, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, to perform multi-criteria sustainability assessment of agri-food systems. The main objective of the platform is to develop and provide multi-criteria assessment tools and associated databases. MEANS is under development. The platform has been designed as a computer model of the shared structure of multi-criteria assessment methods. Thus the platform is able to provide several multi-criteria assessment methods. At first, the MEANS software is designed for environmental assessment within the methodological framework of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), applied to agri-food systems. When performing an LCA, several types of models can be used (simulation of farmer practices, models of pollutant emissions, methods for impact assessment). Data describing the systems or data used in calculations of indicators are provided in the database associated to the software. INRA resources for multi-criteria assessment (assessment methods, simulation models, data) will be made available through the platform.