Life cycle assessment of agre-food systems : : an operational guide dedicated to developing and emerging economies /

Life cycle assessment of agre-food systems : : an operational guide dedicated to developing and emerging economies / / Claudine Basset-Mens.

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the internationally recognized method to assess the environmental impacts of products and services. Its application to agri-food systems in developing or emerging contexts is recent and represents many challenges of scientific, partnerial and operational nature. With m...

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Basset-Mens, Claudine,
Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Quae,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface7
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • 1. LCA within developing and emerging economies11
  • Land tenure issues11
  • Environmental vs. economic development concerns 13
  • Most developing and emerging countries are located in the tropical zone13
  • Inadequate input issues14
  • Research and development priorities and capacities 15
  • 2. The purpose of this operational guide 17
  • 3. Standards, guidelines and tools19
  • 4. Preparation process and intended audience25
  • Part 2 Agri-food LCA in developing and emerging contexts
  • 5. State of the art of agri-food LCA29
  • 6. Specific challenges for agri-food LCA in developing
  • and emerging contexts 35
  • Diversity of agri-food systems due to specific natural conditions
  • and combined socio-economic constraints35
  • Data gaps on the systems to be characterized36
  • Varying awareness and capacities of stakeholders 39
  • 7. Established and emerging initiatives43
  • Part 3 Overcoming the challenges for robust agri-food LCA in developing
  • and emerging economies
  • 8. Co-designing the study with stakeholders49
  • Overview of the approach49
  • Critical analysis of the demand, constraints and avoidance strategies 51
  • The community of the study54
  • Working as a team in the field 61
  • Management of ethics and rights for stakeholders65
  • System boundaries, typologies and sampling strategies71
  • 9. Building life cycle inventories79
  • Foreground data collection79
  • Direct field emissions87
  • Background data collection94
  • Quality management and critical review (CR)95
  • 10. Performing impact assessment97
  • Overview of available and recommended sets of LCIA methods 97
  • Impact categories 102
  • 11. Interpreting the results for each stakeholder category 103
  • Accounting for uncertainty in LCA studies103
  • Comparing results with previous studies111
  • Sharing and communicating results to support decisions112
  • Part 4 Conclusions and moving forward
  • Part 5 Appendices
  • A. Guidelines / ISO Norms: a brief overview121
  • ISO, 2006. ISO - 14040:2006 - Environmental management - Life cycle
  • assessment - Principles and framework, Environmental Management.121
  • ISO, 2006. ISO - 14044:2006 - Environmental management - Life cycle
  • assessment - Requirements and guidelines. Geneva.121
  • B. Commonly used direct field emission models122
  • C. LCA resources126
  • Networks and platforms126
  • Databases and software131
  • Research and universities133
  • D. Data collection and confidentiality: check list and points
  • of vigilance 135
  • Data collection and confidentiality 135
  • Points of vigilance135
  • Tools and best practices for data management 136
  • E. Recommendations for designing a sampling protocol according
  • to PAS 2050-1 137
  • F. Best practices for agri-food LCAs, at the system level 138
  • G. Free tools to model field emissions for LCI 143
  • Emission models online143
  • GHG calculators143
  • H. Detailed guidance on impact categories 144
  • Global Warming or Climate Change impact144
  • Soil quality impact152
  • Human toxicity and ecotoxicity 158
  • Biodiversity due to LULUC166
  • Water scarcity footprint 170
  • I. LCIA methods recommended by the Life Cycle Initiative
  • and EF 3.0 176
  • J. Detailed guidance on the use of the qualitative assessment of data
  • in LCA according to the European PEFCR Guidance (EC 2018)178
  • Qualitative diagnosis178
  • Uncertainty approximation 180
  • K. How to display LCA results while avoiding bias due to
  • visualization choices? 181
  • Refer to "useful ink" concept 181
  • Which type of graph is the most effective for most LCIA results?
  • (histograms)181
  • References183
  • Glossary 201
  • Abbreviations204
  • List of authors 207.

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