A5017649378- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Life Cycle Costing Analysis
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
University of Southern Denmark
2018-2025
University of Padua
2023
Technical University of Denmark
2011-2022
Aalborg University
2019
Danmarks Nationalbank
2009-2017
DHI
2006-2009
Cowi (Denmark)
2000
Agricultural waste is a huge pool of untapped biomass resources that may even represent economic and environmental burdens. They can be converted into bioenergy bio-based products by cascading conversion processes, within circular economy, should considered residual resources. Major challenges are discussed from transdisciplinary perspective, focused on Europe situation. Environmental consequences agricultural residue management chains difficult to assess due their complexity, seasonality...
The considerable environmental impacts, resource consumption and waste generation emanating from buildings are a cause of great concern political attention. Interest in the circular economy (CE) concept slowing, narrowing closing material loops through CE strategies (reuse, repair, refurbish, recycle recover) has grown recent years to facilitate minimising these unresolved issues building industry. Although initiatives proliferating within industry, wide-scale adoption is still lacking,...
The building industry is responsible for a large proportion of anthropogenic environmental impacts. Circular economy (CE) restorative and regenerative industrial economic approach that promotes resource efficiency to reduce waste burdens. Transitioning from linear CE within the will be significant challenge. However, an insufficient number quantitative studies exist confirm potential (positive) effects built environment as well consistent method characterizing these effects. This paper...
Cities now consume resources and produce waste in amounts that are incommensurate with the populations they contain. Quantifying benchmarking environmental impacts of cities is essential if urbanization world's growing population to occur sustainably. Urban metabolism (UM) a promising assessment form it provides annual sum material energy inputs, resultant emissions emergent infrastructural needs city's sociotechnical subsystems. By fusing UM life cycle (UM–LCA) this study advances ability...
In this study, we performed a life cycle assessment (LCA) on an emerging lignin upgrading process, namely the production of biobased adipic acid.
The building industry contributes to resource scarcity by consuming vast amounts of natural resources and produces in addition large waste, both contributing a considerable portion the environmental impacts induced demands growing world population. Manufacturing most materials require material energy resources. These are nevertheless either down-cycled or ends up as waste after demolition. Consequently, only manages exploit an insignificant percentage materials' inherent economic value...
The food demands of the United States (US) impart significant environmental pressures. high rate consumption beef has been shown to be largest driver food-borne greenhouse gas emissions, water use and land occupation in US diet. benefits substituting animal products with vegetal foods are well documented, but psychological barriers persist reducing meat consumption. Here we life cycle assessment appraise performance a novel protein source mean diet where it replaces ground beef, vegetarian...
Summary Assessments of urban metabolism (UM) are well situated to identify the scale, components, and direction energy flows in cities have been instrumental benchmarking monitoring key levers environmental pressure, such as transport, space conditioning, electricity. Hitherto, food consumption has garnered scant attention both UM accounting (typically lumped with “biomass”) on policy agenda, despite its relevance local global pressures. With future growth expected population wealth, an...
Transitioning the built environment to a circular economy (CE) is vital achieve sustainability goals but requires metrics. Life cycle assessment (LCA) can analyse environmental performance of CE. However, conventional LCA methods assess individual products and single life cycles whereas systems perspective as buildings, components materials potentially have multiple use cycles. How should benefits burdens be allocated between cycles? This study compares four different allocation approaches:...
Abstract The current enthusiasm for the circular economy (CE) offers a unique opportunity to advance impact of research on sustainability transitions. Diverse interpretations CE by scholars, however, produce partly opposing assessments its potential benefits, which can hinder progress. Here, we synthesize policy‐relevant lessons and directions sustainable identify three narratives—optimist, reformist, skeptical—that underpin ambiguity in assessments. Based 54 key scholars’ insights, needs:...
It is essential to provide quantitative decision support when pursuing environmental impact mitigation efforts, particularly considering resource and energy-demanding sectors such as the built environment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) provides widely recognized regarding performance. However, for long-lived products buildings, usefulness of conventional LCA limited it relies on databases that only give a current or past representation industrial processes. The emerging field prospective...
The biorefining of biowastes, specifically the organic fraction municipal solid waste (OFMSW), into biofuels and high-value products is an energy-demanding process, still immature, largely dependent on process configuration efficiency employed microorganisms. Such issues might undermine environmental sustainability biorefinery by inducing adverse impacts human health, ecosystem quality, climate change, resources, which need to be explored before scale-up. Hence, this study was performed as...
Summary This study investigates the prevailing practice of obtaining single scores in life cycle assessment (LCA) and identifies potential lacunas impact methodology related to results aggregation into endpoints scores. In order conduct this investigation, a detailed approach was adopted facilitate identification three main problems single‐score calculation approach. The ReCiPe method does not account for either effect so‐called dominating alternatives (i.e., having high values across all...