Hemeroby as an impact category indicator for the integration of land use into life cycle (impact) assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1511-1527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst Fehrenbach ◽  
Birgit Grahl ◽  
Jürgen Giegrich ◽  
Mirjam Busch
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Impact Category ◽  
Category Indicator ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

A GIS based method to calculate regionalized land use characterization factors for life cycle impact assessment using LANCA®

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Bos ◽  
Stephanie D. Maier ◽  
Rafael Horn ◽  
Philip Leistner ◽  
Matthias Finkbeiner
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Characterization Factors ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

scholarly journals A Practical Comparison of Regionalized Land Use and Biodiversity Life Cycle Impact Assessment Models Using Livestock Production as a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4089 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Teixeira ◽  
Tiago Morais ◽  
Tiago Domingos
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

Land use is increasingly important for impact assessment in life cycle assessment (LCA). Its impacts on biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services are crucial to depict the environmental performance of products. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) models are commonly selected by consensus through processes frequently misinformed by the absence of practical application studies. Here, we performed an assessment of all free and peer-reviewed LCIA models for land use. We started with spatial correlation analysis at the country scale. Models that use the same indicators are strongly correlated, suggesting that regionalization is no longer a decisive issue in model selection. We applied these models in a case study for cattle production where feeds are replaced by sown biodiverse pastures (SBP). We tested (1) a non-regionalized inventory from an LCA database and, (2) a regionalized inventory that explicit considered the locations of land occupation and transformation. We found the same qualitative result: the installation of SBP avoids impacts due to feed substitution. Each hectare of SBP installed avoids the occupation of 0.5 hectares per year for feed ingredient production. Adding inventory regionalization for 70% of land use flows leads to a change of 15% in results, suggesting limited spatial differentiation between country-level characterization factors.

scholarly journals Global land use impacts on biomass production—a spatial-differentiated resource-related life cycle impact assessment method

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo A. F. Alvarenga ◽  
Karl-Heinz Erb ◽  
Helmut Haberl ◽  
Sebastião R. Soares ◽  
Rosalie van Zelm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Land Use Impacts ◽  
Global Land ◽  
Impact Assessment Method ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

scholarly journals Progress in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: Water Vapor Emissions and Respiratory Inorganics

Sci ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Anders Andrae
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Impact Category ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Life Cycle Impact ◽  
Vapor Emissions

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is being included formally in EcoDesign regulations. Especially product carbon footprint will be mandatory in Europe. However, life cycle impact assessment, including global warming potential (GWP) in LCA, is hampered by several challenges. One of these is a lack of water vapor characterization indexes for GWP. A life cycle inventory profile for air transport fuel, including water vapor emissions, is evaluated with state-of-the-art practice, i.e., Environmental Footprint (EF) Method and International Life Cycle Data (ILCD) 2011 Mid-point+, neglecting water vapor’s high altitude GWP compared to carbon dioxide. Then, the characterization factor in GWP over 100 years (GWP100) for water vapor and alternate normalization for particulates are introduced. The results are compared. The main findings are that the previous EF method and ILCD both generate rather realistic results for Particulate Matter and Respiratory Inorganics mid-point indicators, respectively, but the number of premature deaths should be better allocated to different specific emissions, and that water vapor may dominate the GWP100 result over the usual carbon dioxide. Respiratory inorganics may need one impact category, each starting with particles smaller than 2.5 µm. LCIA mid-points need measurable and understandable bases. The common knowledge of water vapor’s GWP100 should not be neglected in LCIA for air transport and beyond where relevant.

Development of Chinese characterization factors for land use in life cycle impact assessment

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1483-1488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Liu ◽  
ZuoRen Nie ◽  
BoXue Sun ◽  
ZhiHong Wang ◽  
XianZheng Gong
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Characterization Factors ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

scholarly journals An improved life cycle impact assessment principle for assessing the impact of land use on ecosystem services

2019 ◽  
Vol 693 ◽  
pp. 133374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Othoniel ◽  
Benedetto Rugani ◽  
Reinout Heijungs ◽  
Marco Beyer ◽  
Miriam Machwitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact ◽  
The Impact

A proposal for using process-based soil models for land use Life cycle impact assessment: Application to Alentejo, Portugal

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 864-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago G. Morais ◽  
Cláudia Silva ◽  
Asma Jebari ◽  
Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes ◽  
Tiago Domingos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

Life Cycle Impact assessment of land use based on the hemeroby concept

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Brentrup ◽  
Jürgen Küsters ◽  
Joachim Lammel ◽  
Hermann Kuhlmann
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact
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