Welcome to Life Cycle Talks! A series of talks presenting the research front to keep you up to date with the science and application of the life cycle perspective. Our next guest is Hampus André, researcher at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Hampus will talk about the idea, theory and practice of broadening the scope of LCA, to enable the assessment of sufficiency, understood as “living well with less”, as opposed to the predominant focus on efficiency (reducing impact per level of function or consumption).

Presenter

Hampus André is a researcher at KTH working on how life cycle assessment can be extended to address sufficiency, in addition to its traditional focus on efficiency. His work centres on developing Sufficiency-LCA, an approach that integrates environmental impacts with experiential outcomes of consumption such as satisfaction and well-being. In his talk, he will introduce Sufficiency-LCA, present early empirical applications, and explore how it can be used in the future.

More information

André, H., Björklund, A., 2026. The route to Paris through the Swedish backcountry: applying Sufficiency-LCA to assess environmental impacts and guest experiences of sufficiency measures in remote mountain stations. Int J Life Cycle Assess 31, 14.

André, H., 2024. “If less is more, how you keeping score?” Outlines of a life cycle assessment method to assess sufficiency. Frontiers in Sustainability 5, 1342223.

André, H., Björklund, A., 2023. A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: the case of shell jacket reuse. Journal of Industrial Ecology 27.

André, H., 2024. Opening the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: Environmental performance of shell jacket reuse. Journal of Industrial Ecology 28, 542–555.

Project page: “If less is more, how you keeping score?” – Towards assessing environmental and well-being outcomes of sufficient consumption