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Name: deala
Version: 1.3.1
Summary: DEALA can be used for the economic assessment in Life Cycle Costing or Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment studies within Brightway2
Author-email: Jan-Linus Popien <j.popien@tu-braunschweig.de>
Keywords: LCC,characterization,brightway2,sustainability
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# 📦 DEALA — *Differentiated Economic Assessment in a Life cycle-oriented Analysis*

**DEALA** is a Python package developed to perform comprehensive and differentiated **economic assessments** within **Life Cycle (Sustainabiltiy) Assessment (LC(S)A)** or **Life Cycle Costing studies (LCC)**. It enables the integration of economic data and includes three pre-defined economic life cycle impact assessment methods for the calculation of the economic impacts. DEALA builds upon existing LCA frameworks such as [Brightway2](https://brightway.dev/) and supplements them with custom databases and impact categories tailored for economic evaluation.

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## 📚 Further Information

Detailed information about the DEALA method can be found in the following scientific publication:

👉 [https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584](https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584)

> Popien, J.-L., Barke, A., Ginster, R., Striecks, T., Thies, C., & Spengler, T. S. (2024).  
> **DEALA — A novel economic life cycle impact assessment method for differentiated economic assessments in the context of life cycle sustainability assessments.**  
> *Journal of Industrial Ecology*. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584

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## 🚀 Key Features

1. **Three economic LCIA methods**  
   Includes DEALA-Cost, DEALA-Profit, and DEALA-Invest as built-in economic characterization models.

2. **Integrated marketsphere database**  
   Provides a ready-to-use database that enables the calculation of economic impacts via the characterization models.

3. **Support for life cycle sustainability assessments (LCSA)**  
   DEALA enables unified assessments of economic, environmental, and social impacts of production systems on a consistent level.

4. **Practical case study included**  
   A worked example on pan production is provided in the [`deala/notebooks/pan_production.ipynb`](deala/notebooks/pan_production.ipynb) notebook to demonstrate the application of the DEALA method.

5. **Example files and templates**  
   Includes example datasets and templates to guide users through typical DEALA workflows.

6. **Regionalized and time-dependent assessments**  
   Enables economic assessments that account for regional specifics and temporal developments.

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## 🏁 Getting Started

### 📥 Installation

```bash
pip install deala
```


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## 📄 License

BSD 3-Clause License

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## 🙋 Support

For questions, suggestions, or contributions, feel free to contact the development team or submit an issue via GitHub.
