Water scarcity in agriculture: An overview of causes, impacts and approaches for reducing the risks

C Ingrao, R Strippoli, G Lagioia, D Huisingh - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Freshwater is a vital resource for both ecosystem health and human survival, and it is the
natural resource that is the most extracted at the global level. Excessive freshwater …

Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

J Liu, H Yang, SN Gosling, M Kummu, M Flörke… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE)

AM Boulay, J Bare, L Benini, M Berger… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to assess freshwater-related impacts
according to a new water footprint framework formalized in the ISO 14046 standard. To date …

Identifying best existing practice for characterization modeling in life cycle impact assessment

MZ Hauschild, M Goedkoop, J Guinée… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a field of active development. The last
decade has seen prolific publication of new impact assessment methods covering many …

Livestock and the environment: what have we learned in the past decade?

M Herrero, S Wirsenius, B Henderson… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The livestock and environment nexus has been the subject of considerable research in the
past decade. With a more prosperous and urbanized population projected to grow …

[HTML][HTML] A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA

AY Hoekstra - Ecological indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
The water footprint (WF) has been developed within the water resources research
community as a volumetric measure of freshwater appropriation. The concept is used to …

Life cycle impact assessment

RK Rosenbaum, MZ Hauschild, AM Boulay… - Life cycle assessment …, 2018 - Springer
This chapter is dedicated to the third phase of an LCA study, the Life Cycle Impact
Assessment (LCIA) where the life cycle inventory's information on elementary flows is …

Review of methods addressing freshwater use in life cycle inventory and impact assessment

A Kounina, M Margni, JB Bayart, AM Boulay… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose In recent years, several methods have been developed which propose different
freshwater use inventory schemes and impact assessment characterization models …

Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016)“A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA”

S Pfister, AM Boulay, M Berger, M Hadjikakou… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Water footprinting has emerged as an important approach to assess water use related
effects from consumption of goods and services. Assessment methods are proposed by two …

Critical aspects in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of bio-based materials–Reviewing methodologies and deriving recommendations

P Pawelzik, M Carus, J Hotchkiss, R Narayan… - Resources …, 2013 - Elsevier
Concerns over non-renewable fossil fuel supply and climate change have been driving the
Renaissance of bio-based materials. To substantiate environmental claims, the impacts of …