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Integrating life cycle and impact assessments to map food’s cumulative environmental footprint
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Kuempel, CD and Frazier, M and Nash, KL and Jacobsen, NS and Williams, DR and Blanchard, JL and Cottrell, RS and McIntyre, PB and Moran, D and Bouwman, L and Froehlich, HE and Gephart, JA and Metian, M and Tobben, J and Halpern, BS, Integrating life cycle and impact assessments to map food's cumulative environmental footprint, One Earth, 3, (1) pp. 65-78. ISSN 2590-3330 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014
Abstract
Feeding a growing, increasingly affluent population while limiting environmental pressures of food production is a central challenge for society. Understanding the location and magnitude of food production is key to addressing this challenge because pressures vary substantially across food production types. Applying data and models from life cycle assessment with the methodologies for mapping cumulative environmental impacts of human activities (hereafter cumulative impact mapping) provides a powerful approach to spatially map the cumulative environmental pressure of food production in a way that is consistent and comprehensive across food types. However, these methodologies have yet to be combined. By synthesizing life cycle assessment and cumulative impact mapping methodologies, we provide guidance for comprehensively and cumulatively mapping the environmental pressures (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, spatial occupancy, and freshwater use) associated with food production systems. This spatial approach enables quantification of current and potential future environmental pressures, which is needed for decision makers to create more sustainable food policies and practices.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | cradle-to-gate, cumulative impact, environmental pressure, environmental cost, environmental impact, food production, food security, sustainability |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Environmental management |
| Research Field: | Environmental assessment and monitoring |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards |
| Objective Field: | Environmental lifecycle assessment |
| UTAS Author: | Nash, KL (Dr Kirsty Nash) |
| UTAS Author: | Blanchard, JL (Professor Julia Blanchard) |
| UTAS Author: | Cottrell, RS (Dr Richard Cottrell) |
| ID Code: | 140124 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
| Deposited By: | Ecology and Biodiversity |
| Deposited On: | 2020-07-28 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-02-03 |
| Downloads: | 14 View Download Statistics |
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