A5083879799- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Water resources management and optimization
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Marine and fisheries research
Leiden University
2017-2025
China Agricultural University
2024
Vienna University of Economics and Business
2024
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2024
Peking University
2023
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2017-2018
ETH Zurich
2015-2016
Institute of Environmental Engineering
2015
University of Göttingen
2013
The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to improve the lives of people, increase prosperity, and protect planet. Given large number goals, interactions are inevitable. We analyse interaction between two social goals (related SDG1 Poverty SDG10 Inequality) three environmental SDG13 Carbon, SDG15 Land, SDG6 Water). use a trade-linked, consumption-based approach assess in 166 nations, each subdivided into four income groups. find that pursuing is, generally, associated with higher...
The production and consumption of food are responsible for serious environmental degradation. Given the nature global economy, impacts dispersed over full extent planet because commodities may travel long distances from to consumption. In this Primer, we introduce principles life cycle assessment (LCA), which allows inputs, outputs, potential throughout a product system. We describe how LCA works following standard phases (1) goal scope, (2) inventory, (3) impact assessment, (4)...
Understanding the water use of power production is an important step to both a sustainable energy transition and improved understanding conservation measures. However, there are large differences across literature that currently present barriers decision making. Here, compiled inventory blue from existing studies allowed uncover characteristics investigate current uncertainties. The results show photovoltaics, wind power, run-of-the-river hydropower consume relatively little water, whereas...
After two decades of research on sustainable intensification (SI), namely securing food production less environmental cost, heterogeneous understandings and perspectives prevail in a broad partly fragmented scientific literature. Structuring consolidating contributions to provide practice-oriented guidelines are lacking. The objectives this study (1) comprehensively explore the academic SI literature, (2) propose an implementation-oriented conceptual framework, (3) demonstrate its...
This study seeks to provide a framework for integrating animal welfare as fourth pillar into life cycle sustainability assessment and presents three alternative indicators. Animal is assessed during farm slaughter. The indicators differ in how they value premature death. All consider (1) the quality of an such space allowance, (2) slaughter age either duration or fraction, (3) number animals affected providing product unit, e.g. 1 Mcal. One additionally takes account moral denoting their...
Global warming is accelerating and the world urgently needs a shift to clean renewable energy. Hydropower currently largest source of electricity, but its contribution climate change mitigation not yet fully understood. Hydroelectric reservoirs are biogenic greenhouse gases in individual cases can reach same emission rates as thermal power plants. Little known about severity their emissions at global scale. Here we show that carbon footprint hydropower far higher than previously assumed,...
Our carbon-intensive economy has led to an average temperature rise of 1 °C since pre-industrial times. As a consequence, the world seen increasing droughts, significant shrinking polar ice caps, and steady sea-level rise. To stall these issues’ worsening further, we must limit global warming 1.5 °C. In addition economy’s decarbonization, this endeavour requires use negative-emissions technologies (NETs) that remove main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, from atmosphere. While techno-economic...
Human land use is the main driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss. It has been argued that producers and consumers have a shared responsibility for loss because this directly indirectly driven by local global demand products. Such sharing would be an important step cooperation conservation. Here, we multiregional input-output framework to estimate consumption-based loss, integrating with both physical Food Agriculture Biomass Input-Output (FABIO) dataset monetary table (EXIOBASE). We...
Large-scale offshore wind energy developments represent a major player in the transition but are likely to have (negative or positive) impacts on marine biodiversity. Wind turbine foundations and sour protection often replace soft sediment with hard substrates, creating artificial reefs for sessile dwellers. Offshore farm (OWF) furthermore leads decrease (and even cessation of) bottom trawling, as this activity is prohibited many OWFs. The long-term cumulative of these changes biodiversity...
Land use is a major threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Life cycle assessment tool that can assess such threats and thereby support environmental decision-making. Within the Global Guidance for Cycle Impact Assessment (GLAM) project, Initiative hosted by UN Environment aims create life impact method across multiple categories, including land impacts on ecosystem quality represented regional global species richness. A working group of GLAM project focused developed new characterization...
Scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5 °C rely on a combination of interventions reduce greenhouse gas emissions and capture carbon dioxide. However, the extent which lifestyle change contributes mitigation relative technological over time remains understudied. Here, we present scenario model incorporates extensive supply-side transformations while excluding changes. By adapting supply-use table from EXIOBASE using elements Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 1 pathway consistent with target,...
The Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia is undergoing extensive hydropower development, but the magnitudes of related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not well known. We provide first screening GHG 141 existing and planned reservoirs basin, with a focus on atmospheric gross through reservoir water surface. were estimated using statistical models that based global emission measurements. (119) found to have an range 0.2–1994 kg CO2e MWh−1 over 100 year lifetime median 26 MWh−1. Hydropower...
We investigated water-related resource use, emissions and ecosystem impacts of food consumed in Switzerland. To do so, we coupled LCA methodologies on freshwater consumption, eutrophication the consequent local global biodiversity with Swiss customs data multiregional input-output analysis. Most occur outside national boundaries which illustrates extent environmental outsourcing facilitated by international trade. Countries that are severely affected consumption include Spain, United States...
Various environmental challenges are rapidly threatening ecosystems and societies globally. Major interventions a strategic approach required to minimize harm avoid reaching catastrophic tipping points. Setting evidence-based priorities aids maximizing the impact of limited resources available for interventions. Focusing on protecting both food security biodiversity, international experts prioritized major intervention based three comprehensive criteria - importance, neglect, tractability....
Sustainable food systems are essential for meeting nutritional requirements, limiting environmental impacts, and reducing animal welfare loss. Although current dietary trends in many regions rather go the opposite direction, adequacy of guidelines is unknown, three sustainability dimensions generally not assessed simultaneously. Here, we nation-specific recommended diets these impacts compared with average diet. We trade-offs between quality, (carbon, land, water footprints), welfare. Most...
Abstract Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the operating space humanity. Using expert knowledge elicitation, we explored among seven variables representing relevant food production, identifying many little in literature. We found that green water and land change affect other strongly, while land, freshwater ocean components biosphere integrity are most...