A5059808603- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Phytochemical Studies and Bioactivities
- Natural product bioactivities and synthesis
- Phytochemistry and Bioactive Compounds
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Forest Management and Policy
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Global trade and economics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Environment Agency Austria
2023-2024
BOKU University
2019-2023
Bio Forschung Austria
2019
University of Klagenfurt
2013-2017
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
2013
Summary Environmentally extended multiregional input‐output (EE MRIO) tables have emerged as a key framework to provide comprehensive description of the global economy and analyze its effects on environment. Of available EE MRIO databases, EXIOBASE stands out database compatible with System Environmental‐Economic Accounting (SEEA) high sectorial detail matched multiple social environmental satellite accounts. In this paper, we present latest developments realized 3—a time series ranging from...
Abstract Safeguarding the world’s remaining forests is a high-priority goal. We assess biophysical option space for feeding world in 2050 hypothetical zero-deforestation world. systematically combine realistic assumptions on future yields, agricultural areas, livestock feed and human diets. For each scenario, we determine whether supply of crop products meets demand grazing intensity stays within plausible limits. find that many options exist to meet global food without deforestation, even...
Global food systems contribute to climate change, the transgression of planetary boundaries and deforestation. An improved understanding environmental impacts different system futures is crucial for forging strategies sustainably nourish a growing world population. We here quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions global scenarios within biophysically feasible "option space" in 2050 comprising all which biomass supply – calculated as function agricultural area yields sufficient cover demand...
Short rotation plantations are often considered as holding vast potentials for future global bioenergy supply. In contrast to raising biomass harvests in forests, purpose-grown does not interfere with forest carbon (C) stocks. Provided that agricultural land can be diverted from food and feed production without impairing security, energy on current appear a beneficial option terms of renewable, climate-friendly However, instead supporting plantations, could also devoted natural succession....
Short food supply chains and circularity are discussed as key factors for a sustainable system. Although self-sufficiency ratios (SSR) often used to characterize agri-food systems, the concept of SSR remains inconsistently defined, particularly when means production such livestock feed explicitly considered. We present systematic conceptualization SSR, i.e., ratio domestic consumption within region along three dimensions: a) products, b) cropland c) primary agricultural biomass. While refer...
Abstract Emissions from agricultural activities constitute 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions and are hard to abate. Here, we present analyze a consistent empirical assessment 1910–2015. Agricultural increased 3.5-fold 1910–2015, 1.9 6.7 GtCO 2 eq yr −1 . CH 4 emissions, enteric fermentation livestock products contributed the highest fractions by gases, processes, products, respectively. A decomposition analysis quantifies contribution major drivers dynamics. It reveals that globally...
Transport from regional production requires less fossil fuel and thus produces lower greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, policies fostering the of goods support rural development. Tomato consumption has increased fast in Europe over last decade. Intensive techniques such as heated greenhouses long-distance transport overcome seasonal constraints order to provide year-round fresh goods. However, studies that evaluate off-season are scarce. Here, we analyzed carbon footprint tomato systems...
Abstract Global bioenergy potentials have been the subject of extensive research and continued controversy. Due to vast uncertainties regarding future yields, diets other influencing parameters, estimates agricultural biomass vary widely. Most scenarios compatible with ambitious climate targets foresee a large expansion bioenergy, mainly from energy crops that needs be kept consistent projections agriculture food production. Using global balance model BioBaM, we here present an assessment...
Human intervention on land enhances the supply of provisioning ecosystem services, but also exerts pressures functioning. We utilize Appropriation Net Primary Production (HANPP) framework to assess these relations in European agriculture, for 220 NUTS2 regions. put a particular focus individual system components, i.e. croplands, grasslands, and livestock husbandry relate associated biomass flows potential net primary productivity NPP. For reference year 2012, we find that 469 g dm/m2/yr (38%...
Livestock farming is of major economic relevance but also severely contributes to environmental impacts, especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as methane (CH4; particularly from ruminant production) and nitrous oxide (N2O; mainly manure management soil cultivated for feed production). In this study, we analyse the impact GHG Austrian livestock production, using two metrics: a) commonly used global warming potential (GWP) over 100 years (GWP100 in CO2-equivalents, CO2-e), b) recently...
Abstract Multiregional input–output (MRIO) databases are used to analyze the impact of resource use and environmental impacts along global supply chains. To accurately account for pressures that highly concentrated in specific sectors or regions world, such as agricultural land-use-related impacts, MRIO being fueled by increasingly more detailed data. date no database exists which couples a high level harmonized sector detail with country resolution. Currently available either aggregate...
Close to 40% of Earth's land area is used for agriculture provide humankind with plant- and animal-based food, fibers or bioenergy. Future trends in agricultural use, livestock husbandry associated environmental pressures are determined by developments the food sector, productivity, technology, many other influencing factors. Scenario analysis helps understand their complex interaction obtain quantitative insight. We here present an in-depth description use model BioBaM-GHG 2.0 (“BioBaM”),...
The provision of food is fundamental for society, but it also a major driver environmental change. Cities are important consumers food, harboring more than half the global population, share that expected to grow in coming decades. Here we investigate urban system Vienna, large central European city. We quantify land and greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint Vienna's explore potentials reduce through changes consumption, applying counterfactual approach. systematically compare GHG effect shift...
The adaption of historic European cultivation techniques for unheated winter vegetable production has gained momentum during the last years in Austria. Studies that evaluate ecological and socio-economic sustainability-factors these are scarce. In this study, we analyze greenhouse gas emissions along supply chains based on a life cycle approach investigate factors system towards future market diffusion new-old technologies Sustainability Assessment Food Agriculture Systems (SAFA) guidelines...
In this article we develop a comprehensive conceptual framework for resource efficiency indicators with consistent link of use to the socio-economic system and activities therein as well natural its ecosystem functioning. Three broad groups are defined: (1) representing pressures on environment; (2) relating side; (3) environmental impact linking impacts state system. Based structure possible conduct RACER evaluation Relevance, Acceptance, Credibility, Easiness Robustness indicators. With...
We investigate agroecosystem energy flows in two Upper Austrian regions, the lowland region Sankt Florian and prealpine Grünburg, at five time points between 1830 2000. Energetic productivity (energy contents of crops, livestock products, wood per unit area) is compared to different types inputs, i.e., external inputs from society (labor, industrial biomass inputs) reused local (feed, litter, seeds). Energy transfers compartments (agricultural land, forest, livestock) are also quantified....
Summary The European Commission recently embraced the concept of agroecology as a pathway to reduce negative impacts from agri‐food systems on environment. So far, it remains unclear whether can deliver these high hopes if implemented large scale. We here assess socio‐economic and environmental implications multiple agroecological futures in Union 2050, based novel diagnostic scenario approach, i.e. biomass balancing model BioBaM‐GHG 2.0. find that measures plot food level indeed pressures...
Agriculture is an important contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While the development of agricultural GHG emissions on national and global scales well studied for last three six decades, little known about their trajectory drivers over longer periods. In this article, we address research gap by calculating analyzing related agriculture in Austria from 1830 2018. We calculate territorial annual basis include all processes directly involved production. Based time series, quantify...
Abstract Efficient phosphorus (P) recycling from rural and urban areas is becoming an increasing issue due to the scarcity of natural P deposits. Based on a life cycle assessment (LCA), we analyzed environmental performance 17 different supply approaches wastes, biosolids slaughterhouse wastes compared with two conventional inorganic fertilizers phosphate rock triple superphosphate. The results show that many recycled (RPFs; e.g., digestates organic their ashes, meat bone meal (MBM) its...