Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introduction - Providing the context -- 1 Summary -- 2 Sustainable regional development in a life cycle context -- 3 Regional development and frameworks for sustainable development -- 4 Financial instruments and procedures for sustainable regional development investments -- 5 Life cycle approaches to improve resource efficiency in a regional context -- 6 Life cycle management for regions -- Part II: Analytical basis for life cycle approaches -- 7 Ecological footprint: Principles and methodology -- 8 Environmentally extended input-output analysis for sustainable regional development -- 9 Material flow accounts -- 10 Life cycle assessment -- 11 Carbon footprint principles -- 12 Water footprint principles -- 13 System dynamic and spatial modelling in LCA -- 14 Towards life cycle sustainability assessment, including social life cycle assessment -- 15 Organizational life cycle assessment for regional and local organizations -- Part III: Converting analysis into life cycle tools -- 16 Certification, standardization, and instruments for regional sustainable development - a life cycle view -- 17 Eco-design and product-service systems -- 18 Eco-labels and sustainable development -- 19 Sustainable procurement and regional sustainability -- 20 Industrial ecology and sustainable performance of business parks -- 21 Natural resource use efficiency and economic productivity -- 22 Environmental and landscape management system -- 23 Environmental product declarations to support regional development -- Part IV: Using life cycle approaches at regional level -- 24 Ecological footprint: A local policy perspective -- 25 Economic analysis of regional sustainability - Hungary