Life Cycle Assessment of Agri-Food Systems : : An Operational Guide Dedicated to Developing and Emerging Economies.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Versailles : : Quae,, 2021. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Savoir Faire Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Part 1 - Introduction
- 1. LCA within developing and emerging economies
- Land tenure issues
- Environmental vs. economic development concerns
- Most developing and emerging countries are located in the tropical zone
- Inadequate input issues
- Research and development priorities and capacities
- 2. The purpose of this operational guide
- 3. Standards, guidelines and tools
- 4. Preparation process and intended audience
- Part 2 - Agri-food LCA in developing and emerging contexts
- 5. State of the art of agri-food LCA
- 6. Specific challenges for agri-food LCA in developing and emerging contexts
- Diversity of agri-food systems due to specific natural conditions and combined socio-economic constraints
- Data gaps on the systems to be characterized
- Varying awareness and capacities of stakeholders
- 7. Established and emerging initiatives
- Part 3 - Overcoming the challenges for robust agri-food LCA in developing and emerging economies
- 8. Co-designing the study with stakeholders
- Overview of the approach
- Critical analysis of the demand, constraints and avoidance strategies
- The community of the study
- Working as a team in the field
- Management of ethics and rights for stakeholders
- System boundaries, typologies and sampling strategies
- 9. Building life cycle inventories
- Foreground data collection
- Direct field emissions
- Background data collection
- Quality management and critical review (CR)
- 10. Performing impact assessment
- Overview of available and recommended sets of LCIA methods
- Impact categories
- 11. Interpreting the results for each stakeholder category
- Accounting for uncertainty in LCA studies
- Comparing results with previous studies
- Sharing and communicating results to support decisions
- Part 4 - Conclusions and moving forward.
- Part 5 - Appendices
- A. Guidelines / ISO Norms: a brief overview
- ISO, 2006. ISO - 14040:2006 - Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Principles and framework, Environmental Management
- ISO, 2006. ISO - 14044:2006 - Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Requirements and guidelines. Geneva
- B. Commonly used direct field emission models
- C. LCA resources
- Networks and platforms
- Databases and software
- Research and universities
- D. Data collection and confidentiality: check list and points of vigilance
- Data collection and confidentiality
- Points of vigilance
- Tools and best practices for data management
- E. Recommendations for designing a sampling protocol according to PAS 2050-1
- F. Best practices for agri-food LCAs at the system level
- G. Free tools to model field emissions for LCI
- Emission models online
- GHG calculators
- H. Detailed guidance on impact categories
- Global Warming or Climate Change impact
- Soil quality impact
- Human toxicity and ecotoxicity
- Biodiversity due to LULUC
- Water scarcity footprint
- I. LCIA methods recommended by the Life Cycle Initiative and EF 3.0
- J. Detailed guidance on the use of the qualitative assessment of data in LCA according to the European PEFCR Guidance (EC 2018)
- Qualitative diagnosis
- Uncertainty approximation
- K. How to display LCA results while avoiding bias due to visualization choices?
- Refer to "useful ink" concept
- Which type of graph is the most effective for most LCIA results? (histograms)
- References
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- List of authors.