Abstract
The Government of Minas Gerais, in its strategic plan 2011-2014 established the
sustainable economic development as one of its strategies and in this context born the
Pole of Excellence in Environmental Innovation (PEEI). A major challenge in the
environmental projects development field is integration and achieving multi-stakeholder
consensus for collaborative joint projects to decision making. A critical aspect in the
decision making process is to enable stakeholders to not only interpret and make
decisions based on politicians judgments, but also to appropriately involve many sector
to decision making process. Therefore, scientific analyses in multi-stakeholder contexts
can assist responsible decision making in environmental and innovations public
projects. As the main goal of this paper is presents an outline of a Life Cycle Thinking
to support sustainable decision making in multi-stakeholder contexts to innovation and
environmental public projects. The framework is discussed and compared to other
common methods used to support environmental decision making in development
projects. We argue that the fundamental concept of life cycle thinking can be effectively
used to incorporate stakeholders in the research and decision making process, which
can lead to more comprehensive, yet achievable assessments in collaboration with
stakeholders.
