A5031139925- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Agricultural economics and policies
- Agricultural safety and regulations
- Plant and animal studies
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Vifor Pharma (Switzerland)
2022
Agroscope
2020-2022
ETH Zurich
2010-2020
Radboud University Nijmegen
2010
University of Bayreuth
2010
As a consequence of the multi-functionality land, impact assessment land use in Life Cycle Impact Assessment requires modelling several pathways covering biodiversity and ecosystem services. To provide consistency amongst these separate pathways, general principles for their are provided this paper. These refinements to that have already been proposed publications by UNEP-SETAC Initiative. In particular, paper addresses calculation interventions impacts, issue reversibility, spatial temporal...
Habitat degradation and subsequent biodiversity damage often take place far from the of consumption because globalization increasing level international trade. Informing consumers policy makers about impacts "hidden" in life cycle imported products is an important step toward achieving sustainable patterns. Spatially explicit methods are needed assessment to accurately quantify processes. We use Countryside species-area relationship (SAR) regional species loss due land occupation...
Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a lively field of research, and data models are continuously improved in terms pathways covered, reliability, spatial detail. However, many these advancements scattered throughout the scientific literature, making it difficult for practitioners to apply new models. Here, we present LC-IMPACT method that provides characterization factors at damage level 11 categories related three areas protection (human health, ecosystem quality, natural resources)....
Land use is one of the main drivers biodiversity loss. However, many life cycle assessment studies do not yet assess this effect because lack reliable and operational methods. Here, we present an approach to modeling impacts regional land on plants, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles. Our global analysis calculates total potential damage caused by all uses within each WWF ecoregion allocates different types per ecoregion. We adapted (matrix-calibrated) species-area relationship model...
Comprehensive sensitivity analysis is a significant tool to interpret and improve life cycle assessment (LCA) models, but rarely performed. Sensitivity will increase in importance as inventory databases become regionalized, increasing the number of system parameters, parametrized, adding complexity through variables nonlinear formulas. We propose implement new two-step approach analysis. First, we identify parameters with high global sensitivities for further examination screening step,...
Agricultural land use is a main driver of global biodiversity loss. The assessment impacts in decision-support tools such as life cycle (LCA) requires spatially explicit models, but existing approaches are either not differentiated or modeled at very coarse scales (e.g., biomes ecoregions). In this paper, we develop high-resolution (900 m) method for on based habitat suitability models (HSM) mammal species. This considers potential effects individual species, and weighted by the species'...
Addressing biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment (LCA) has recently been significantly improved. Advances include the consideration of several taxa, vulnerability species and ecosystems, global coverage spatial differentiation. To allow a comparison different stressors (e.g., land water use), consistent approaches for assessing aggregating across taxa are needed. We propose four options stressors: equal weight species, two with special species' vulnerability. apply aggregation to...
Plant protection products (PPP) are used to protect apples from pests and diseases maintain high yields fruit quality. Alternatively, non-chemical plant measures can be applied reduce the use ecotoxicological risks of PPP. However, additional materials, energy or labor needed, which have an impact on environmental economic performance. To investigate possible trade-offs, this multi-criteria analysis examined different apple production systems based exemplary crop strategies in Switzerland....