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Harmonizing the Assessment of Biodiversity Effects from Land and Water Use within LCA

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Verones, Francesca ; Huijbregts, Mark A. J. ; Chaudhary, Abhishek ; de Baan, Laura ; Koellner, Thomas ; Hellweg, Stefanie:
Harmonizing the Assessment of Biodiversity Effects from Land and Water Use within LCA.
In: Environmental Science & Technology. Bd. 49 (2015) Heft 6 . - S. 3584-3592.
ISSN 0013-936X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es504995r

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Abstract

Addressing biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment (LCA) has recently been significantly improved. Advances include the consideration of several taxa, consideration of vulnerability of species and ecosystems, global coverage and spatial differentiation. To allow a comparison of biodiversity impacts of different stressors (e.g., land and water use), consistent approaches for assessing and aggregating biodiversity impacts across taxa are needed. We propose four different options for aggregating impacts across taxa and stressors: equal weight for species, equal weight for taxa and two options with special consideration of species’ vulnerability. We apply the aggregation options to a case study of coffee, tea and sugarcane production in Kenya for the production of 1 kg of crop. The ranking between stressors (land vs water use) within each crop and also of the overall impact between crops (coffee > sugarcane > tea) remained the same when applying the different aggregation options. Inclusion of the vulnerability of species had significant influence on the magnitude of results, and potentially also on the spatial distribution of impacts, and should be considered.

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Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Ecological Services
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Ecological Services > Professur Ecological Services - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Köllner
Forschungseinrichtungen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
Eingestellt am: 03 Jul 2015 06:50
Letzte Änderung: 02 Feb 2023 12:49
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/15714