[HTML][HTML] The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

B Notarnicola, S Sala, A Anton, SJ McLaren… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Life cycle thinking is increasingly seen as a key concept for ensuring a transition towards
more sustainable production and consumption patterns. As food production systems and …

[HTML][HTML] Food waste accounting along global and European food supply chains: State of the art and outlook

S Corrado, S Sala - Waste management, 2018 - Elsevier
Contributing to environmental pollution and resources depletion, food waste represents a
considerable inefficiency of the global food system. Within the United Nations Sustainable …

Redesigning a food supply chain for environmental sustainability–An analysis of resource use and recovery

R Krishnan, R Agarwal, C Bajada… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Food supply will need to increase by around 70% from its current levels in order to meet the
world population growth of 9.6 billion by 2050. Food waste is the biggest challenge in global …

How to treat uncertainties in life cycle assessment studies?

E Igos, E Benetto, R Meyer, P Baustert… - The International Journal …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose The use of life cycle assessment (LCA) as a decision support tool can be hampered
by the numerous uncertainties embedded in the calculation. The treatment of uncertainty is …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental impacts of food consumption in Europe

B Notarnicola, G Tassielli, PA Renzulli… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Food consumption is amongst the main drivers of environmental impacts. On one hand,
there is the need to fulfil a fundamental human need for nutrition, and on the other hand this …

Perovskite photovoltaics: life-cycle assessment of energy and environmental impacts

J Gong, SB Darling, F You - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The past few years have witnessed a rapid evolution of perovskite solar cells, an
unprecedented photovoltaic (PV) technology with both relatively low cost and high power …

[PDF][PDF] Overview and methodology: Data quality guideline for the ecoinvent database version 3

BP Weidema, C Bauer, R Hischier, C Mutel… - 2013 - vbn.aau.dk
Helpful comments and elaborations to draft versions of this document have been received
from Hans-Jörg Althaus, Andreas Ciroth, Gabor Doka, Pascal Lesage, Jannick Schmidt …

A cascaded life cycle: reuse of electric vehicle lithium-ion battery packs in energy storage systems

L Ahmadi, SB Young, M Fowler, RA Fraser… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery packs recovered from end-of-life electric
vehicles (EV) present potential technological, economic and environmental opportunities for …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying food losses and the potential for reduction in Switzerland

C Beretta, F Stoessel, U Baier, S Hellweg - Waste management, 2013 - Elsevier
A key element in making our food systems more efficient is the reduction of food losses
across the entire food value chain. Nevertheless, food losses are often neglected. This …

Towards energy and resource efficient manufacturing: A processes and systems approach

JR Duflou, JW Sutherland, D Dornfeld, C Herrmann… - CIRP annals, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a systematic overview of the state of the art in energy and
resource efficiency increasing methods and techniques in the domain of discrete part …