Established assessment methods focusing on resource recovery from waste within a circular
economy context consider few or even a single domain/s of value, ie environmental …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

As the global population grows, consumption of water, energy, and food will also increase,
placing stresses on these three sectors, raising the importance of the Water-Energy-Food …

The first book of its kind, the Life Cycle Assessment Handbook: A Guide for Environmentally
Sustainable Products will become an invaluable resource for environmentally progressive …

Agriculture is one of the world's biggest polluters. Consumers are misled towards demand of
unsustainable and inadequately priced food products by an insufficient internalization of …

Purpose As a consequence of the multi-functionality of land, the impact assessment of land
use in Life Cycle Impact Assessment requires the modelling of several impact pathways …

Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global
impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …

Purpose In recent years, several methods have been developed which propose different
freshwater use inventory schemes and impact assessment characterization models …

As compost use in agriculture increases, there is an urgent need to evaluate the specific
environmental benefits and impacts as compared with other types of fertilizers and soil …

Increasing needs for decision support and advances in scientific knowledge within life cycle
assessment (LCA) led to substantial efforts to provide global guidance on environmental life …