• Arbeidsmiljøutfordringer i sirkulær økonomi – En case-studie av et avfallsselskap 

      Godal, Martin; Sivathas, Rithushan (Master thesis, 2021)
      Avfalls- og gjenvinningsbransjen vil spille en viktig rolle i overgangen til en sirkulær økonomi. Sentrale mål i en sirkulær økonomi er å ombruke produkter, gjenvinne og resirkulere deler og materialer. På sikt er det en ...
    • Barrierer og tiltak i avfallsbransjen for å redusere antall branner og branntilløp 

      Bergan-Skar, Håkon; Ådland, Erlend Nesbø (Master thesis, 2024)
      Branner i avfallsanlegg er et stort problem og det har de siste årene vært et økt antall rapporterte brannhendelser ved norske avfallsanlegg. Batterier, og da i hovedsak litiumbatterier, blir ofte pekt på som årsak til ...
    • Barrierer og tiltak i avfallsbransjen for å redusere antall branner og branntilløp 

      Ådland, Erlend Nesbø; Bergan-Skar, Håkon (Master thesis, 2024)
      Branner i avfallsanlegg er et stort problem og det har de siste årene vært et økt antall rapporterte brannhendelser ved norske avfallsanlegg. Batterier, og da i hovedsak litiumbatterier, blir ofte pekt på som årsak til ...
    • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats 

      Biurrun, Idoia; Pielech, Remigiusz; Dembicz, Iwona; Gillet, François; Kozub, Łukasz; Marcenó, Corrado; Reitalu, Triin; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Guarino, Riccardo; Chytrý, Milan; Pakeman, Robin J; Preislerová, Zdenka; Axmanová, Irena; Burrascano, Sabina; Bartha, Sándor; Boch, Steffen; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Conradi, Timo; De Frenne, Pieter; Essl, Franz; Filibeck, Goffredo; Hájek, Michal; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Kuzemko, Anna; Molnár, Zsolt; Pärtel, Meelis; Pätsch, Ricarda; Prentice, Honor C.; Roleček, Jan; Sutcliffe, Laura M. E.; Terzi, Massimo; Winkler, Manuela; Wu, Jianshuang; Acíc, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T.R.; Afif, Elias; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Alatalo, Juha M.; Aleffi, Michele; Aleksanyan, Alla; Ali, Arshad; Apostolova, Iva; Ashouri, Parvaneh; Bátori, Zoltán; Baumann, Esther; Becker, Thomas; Belonovskaya, Elena; Benito Alonso, José Luis; Berastegi, Asun; Bergamini, Ariel; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Bonini, Ilaria; Büchler, Marc-Olivier; Budzhak, Vasyl; Bueno, Alvaro; Buldrini, Fabrizio; Campos, Juan Antonio; Cancellieri, Laura; Carboni, Marta; Ceulemans, Tobias; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Chocarro, Cristina; Conti, Luisa; Csergő, Anna Mária; Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata; Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta; Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta; Czortek, Patryk; Danihelka, Jiří; de Bello, Francesco; Deák, Balázs; Demeter, László; Deng, Lei; Diekmann, Martin; Doležal, Jiří; Dolnik, Christian; Dřevojan, Pavel; Duprè, Cecilia; Ecker, Klaus; Ejtehadi, Hamid; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Etayo, Javier; Etzold, Jonathan; Farkas, Tünde; Farzam, Mohammad; Fayvush, George; Calzado, Maria Rosa Fernández; Finckh, Manfred; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Fotiadis, Georgios; García-Magro, Daniel; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Germany, Markus; Ghafari, Sahar; Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro; Grytnes, John Arvid; Güler, Behlul; Gutiérrez-Girón, Alba; Helm, Aveliina; Herrera, Mercedes; Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M.; Ingerpuu, Nele; Jagerbrand, Annika; Jandt, Ute; Janišová, Monika; Jeanneret, Philippe; Jeltsch, Florian; Jensen, Kai; Jentsch, Anke; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kakinuma, Kaoru; Kapfer, Jutta; Kargar, Mansoureh; Kelemen, András; Kiehl, Kathrin; Kirschner, Philipp; Koyama, Asuka; Langer, Nancy; Lazzaro, Lorenzo; Lepš, Jan; Li, Ching-Feng; Yonghong Li, Frank; Liendo, Diego; Lindborg, Regina; Löbel, Swantje; Lomba, Angela; Lososová, Zdeňka; Lustyk, Pavel; Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L.; Ma, Wenhong; Maccherini, Simona; Magnes, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Manthey, Michael; Mardari, Constantin; May, Felix; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Meier, Eliane S.; Memariani, Farshid; Merunková, Kristina; Michelsen, Ottar; Mesa, Joaquín Molero; Moradi, Halime; Moysiyenko, Ivan; Mugnai, Michele; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Natcheva, Rayna; Ninot, Josep M.; Nobis, Marcin; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Palpurina, Salza; Pauli, Harald; Pedashenko, Hristo; Pedersen, Christian; Peet, Robert K.; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Peters, Jan; Pipenbaher, Nataša; Pirini, Chrisoula; Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia; Plesková, Zuzana; Potenza, Giovanna; Rahmanian, Soroor; Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar; Ronkin, Vladimir; Rosati, Leonardo; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rusina, Solvita; Sabovljević, Marko; Sanaei, Anvar; Sánchez, Ana M.; Santi, Francesco; Savchenko, Galina; Sebastia, Maria Teresa; Shyriaieva, Dariia; Silva, Vasco; Skornik, Sonja; Šmerdová, Eva; Sonkoly, Judit; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Staniaszek-Kik, Monika; Stevens, Carly; Stifter, Simon; Suchrow, Sigrid; Swacha, Grzegorz; Świerszcz, Sebastian; Talebi, Amir; Teleki, Balázs; Tichý, Lubomír; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Torca, Marta; Török, Péter; Tsarevskaya, Nadezda; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Turisová, Ingrid; Ushimaru, Atushi; Valkó, Orsolya; Van Mechelen, Carmen; Vanneste, Thomas; Vasheniak, Iuliia; Vassilev, Kiril; Viciani, Daniele; Villar, Luis; Virtanen, Risto; Vitasović-Kosić, Ivana; Vojtkó, András; Vynokurov, Denys; Waldén, Emelie; Wang, Yun; Weiser, Frank; Wen, Lu; Wesche, Karsten; White, Hannah; Widmer, Stefan; Wolfrum, Sebastian; Wróbel, Anna; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Zelený, David; Zhao, Liqing; Dengler, Jürgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Aims Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain ...
    • Bevaring av biologisk mangfold ved utbygging i Trondheim kommune 

      Bachke, Aleksander Storebø; Tagseth, Emma (Master thesis, 2023)
      Sammendrag Arealbruksendringer er den største driveren for tap av biologisk mangfold. Tap av biologisk mangfold vil ha store negative konsekvenser for jorda og menneskeheten, og med en stadig økende befolkning og urbanisering, ...
    • Biodiversity Impact Assessment Considering Land Use Intensities and Fragmentation 

      Scherer, Laura; Rosa, Francesca; Sun, Zhongxiao; Michelsen, Ottar; De Laurentiis, Valeria; Marques, Alexandra; Pfister, Stephan; Verones, Francesca; Kuipers, Koen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Land use is a major threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Life cycle assessment is a tool that can assess such threats and thereby support environmental decision-making. Within the Global Guidance for Life Cycle Impact ...
    • Biodiversity indicators and environmental performance evaluations. Outline of a methodology: Outline of a methodology 

      Michelsen, Ottar (Reports from Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol), 1501-6153; 2004:3, Research report, 2004)
    • CapSEM Applied to the Construction Sector 

      Sparrevik, Magnus; de Boer, Luitzen; Michelsen, Ottar; Skaar, Christofer (Chapter, 2023)
      The construction sector and built environment have the potential to impact on a variety of systemic dimensions, ranging from specific processes in the production of construction materials to pan-national regulations affecting ...
    • Circular economy in the construction sector: advancing environmental performance through systemic and holistic thinking 

      Sparrevik, Magnus; De Boer, Luitzen; Michelsen, Ottar; Skaar, Christofer; Knudson, Haley; Fet, Annik Magerholm (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The construction sector is progressively becoming more circular by reducing waste, re-using building materials and adopting regenerative solutions for energy production and biodiversity protection. The implications of ...
    • A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains 

      Bürli, Sarah; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Winkler, Manuela; Lamprecht, Andrea; Pauli, Harald; Rixen, Christian; Steinbauer, Klaus; Wipf, Sonja; Abdaladze, Otar; Andrews, Christopher; Barančok, Peter; Benito‑Alonso, José Luis; Fernández Calzado, Maria Rosa; Carranza, Maria Laura; Dick, Jan; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Ghosn, Dany; Gigaur, Khatuna; Kazakis, George; Mallaun, Martin; Michelsen, Ottar; Moiseev, Dmitry; Moiseev, Pavel; Molau, Ulf; Mesa, Joaquín Molero; di Cella, Umberto Morra; Nadeem, Imran; Nagy, Laszlo; Nicklas, Lena; Palaj, Andrej; Pedersen, Bård; Petey, Martina; Puşcaş, Mihai; Rossi, Graziano; Stanisci, Angela; Tomaselli, Marcello; Unterluggauer, Peter; Ursu, Tudor‑Mihai; Villar, Luis; Vittoz, Pascal (Journal article, 2021)
      While climatic research about treeline has a long history, the climatic conditions corresponding to the upper limit of closed alpine grasslands remain poorly understood. Here, we propose a climatic defnition for this limit, ...
    • Comparing land use impacts using ecosystem quality, biogenic carbon emissions, and restoration costs in a case study of hydropower plants in Norway 

      Lillesund, Vilde Fluge; Hagen, Dagmar; Michelsen, Ottar; Foldvik, Anders; Barton, David Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose Habitat destruction is today the most severe threat to global biodiversity. Despite decades of efforts, there is still no proper methodology on how to assess all aspects of impacts on biodiversity from land use and ...
    • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats 

      Staude, Ingmar R.; Pereira, Henrique M.; Daskalova, Gergana N.; Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus; Diekmann, Martin; Pauli, Harald; Van Calster, Hans; Vellend, Mark; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Brunet, Jörg; De Frenne, Pieter; Hédl, Radim; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Verheyen, Kris; Wipf, Sonja; Wulf, Monika; Andrews, Christopher; Barančok, Peter; Barni, Elena; Benito-Alonso, José-Luis; Bennie, Jonathan; Berki, Imre; Blüml, Volker; Chudomelová, Markéta; Decocq, Guillaume; Dick, Jan; Dirnböck, Thomas; Durak, Tomasz; Eriksson, Ove; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Graae, Bente Jessen; Heinken, Thilo; Schei, Fride Høistad; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Kopecký, Martin; Kudernatsch, Thomas; Macek, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Máliš, František; Michelsen, Ottar; Naaf, Tobias; Nagel, Thomas A.; Newton, Adrian C.; Nicklas, Lena; Oddi, Ludovica; Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne; Palaj, Andrej; Petraglia, Alessandro; Petřík, Petr; Pielech, Remigiusz; Porro, Francesco; Puşcaş, Mihai; Reczyńska, Kamila; Rixen, Christian; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Standovár, Tibor; Steinbauer, Klaus; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Teleki, Balázs; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Ursu, Tudor-Mihai; Vanneste, Thomas; Vergeer, Philippine; Vild, Ondřej; Villar, Luis; Vittoz, Pascal; Winkler, Manuela; Baeten, Lander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time ...
    • Eco-Efficiency assessments as a tool for revealing the environmental improvement potential of new regulations 

      Michelsen, Ottar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Public regulations can result in improved environmental performance of products. In this paper eco-efficiency is used to assess the most likely outcome of potential new regulations. The paper presents a case study of ...
    • Eco-efficiency in extended supply chains – methodological development with regulatory and organizational implications 

      Michelsen, Ottar (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2006:216, Doctoral thesis, 2006)
      The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the development and understanding of ecoefficiency assessments for extended supply chains. Using a methodological approach, the main outcome is a consistent methodology to ...
    • Embodied Carbon of Technical Installations in a Norwegian Office and Teaching Building An LCA-based study of the Ocean Space Center 

      Kjeken, Ida (Master thesis, 2021)
      Klimagassutslipp fra energibruk i bygninger er betydelige, men store forbedringer i energieffektivitet har blitt gjort de siste årene. Som en konsekvens av redusert CO2 utslipp grunnet lavere energibruk, har den relative ...
    • Environmental Management Systems 

      Fet, Annik Magerholm; Michelsen, Ottar (Chapter, 2023)
      This chapter gives an overview of the history of the development of environmental management systems (EMS) and the purpose of an EMS. It expands on the description of the different steps of an EMS under the model ...
    • From Waste to Value: A Story About Life Cycle Management in the Furniture Industry 

      Michelsen, Ottar; Skaar, Christofer; Fet, Annik Magerholm (Chapter, 2023)
      This case focuses on the use of the CapSEM Model by the Norwegian furniture industry, beginning with efforts that raised sustainability awareness through a series of case studies over a period of more than 10 years. It ...
    • Global extinction probabilities of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species groups for use in Life Cycle Assessment 

      Verones, Francesca; Kuipers, Koen Jacobus Josefus; Núñez, Montse; Rosa, Francesca; Scherer, Laura; Marques, Alexandra; Michelsen, Ottar; Barbarossa, Valerio; Jaffe, Benjamin; Pfister, Stephan; Dorber, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Human activities put pressure on the natural environmental and the Life Cycle Assessment methodology (LCA) is becoming a more prevalent tool to assess the relevant environmental impacts from products and processes on ...
    • Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use 

      Jolliet, Olivier; Antón, Assumpció; Boulay, Anne-Marie; Cherubini, Francesco; Fantke, Peter; Levasseur, Annie; McKone, Thomas E.; Michelsen, Ottar; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Motoshita, Masaharu; Pfister, Stephan; Verones, Francesca; Vigon, Bruce; Frischknecht, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose Guidance is needed on best-suited indicators to quantify and monitor the man-made impacts on human health, biodiversity and resources. Therefore, the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative initiated a global consensus ...
    • GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands 

      Dengler, Jürgen; Wagner, Viktoria; Dembicz, Iwona; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Boch, Steffen; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Conradi, Timo; Filibeck, Goffredo; Guarino, Riccardo; Janišová, Monika; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T.R.; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Allers, Marc-Andre; Apostolova, Iva; Axmanová, Irena; Bakan, Branko; Baranova, Alina; Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred; Bartha, Sándor; Baumann, Esther; Becker, Thomas; Becker, Ute; Belonovskaya, Elena; Bengtsson, Karin; Alonso, José Luis Benito; Berastegi, Asun; Bergamini, Ariel; Bonini, Ilaria; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Budzhak, Vasyl; Bueno, Alvaro; Campos, Juan Antonio; Cancellieri, Laura; Carboni, Marta; Chocarro, Cristina; Conti, Luisa; Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta; De Frenne, Pieter; Deák, Balázs; Didukh, Yakiv P.; Diekmann, Martin; Dolnik, Christian; Duprè, Cecilia; Ecker, Klaus; Ermakov, Nikolai; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Escudero, Adrián; Etayo, Javier; Fajmonová, Zuzana; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Calzado, Maria Rosa Fernández; Finckh, Manfred; Fotiadis, Georgios; Fracchiolla, Mariano; Ganeva, Anna; García-Magro, Daniel; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Germany, Markus; Giladi, Itamar; Gillet, François; Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro; González, Jose M.; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Hájek, Michal; Hájková, Petra; Helm, Aveliina; Herrera, Mercedes; Hettenbergerová, Eva; Hobohm, Carsten; Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M.; Ingerpuu, Nele; Jandt, Ute; Jeltsch, Florian; Jensen, Kai; Jentsch, Anke; Jeschke, Michael; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Kacki, Zygmunt; Kakinuma, Kaoru; Kapfer, Jutta; Kavgaci, Ali; Kelemen, András; Kiehl, Kathrin; Koyama, Asuka; Koyanagi, Tomoyo F.; Kozub, Łukasz; Kuzemko, Anna; Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen; Landi, Sara; Langer, Nancy; Lastrucci, Lorenzo; Lazzaro, Lorenzo; Lelli, Chiara; Lepš, Jan; Löbel, Swantje; Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L.; Maccherini, Simona; Magnes, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Marcenó, Corrado; Mardari, Constantin; Mauchamp, Leslie; May, Felix; Michelsen, Ottar; Mesa, Joaquín Molero; Molnár, Zsolt; Moysiyenko, Ivan Y.; Nakaga, Yuko K.; Natcheva, Rayna; Noroozi, Jalil; Pakeman, Robin J.; Palpurina, Salza; Pärtel, Meelis; Pätsch, Ricarda; Pauli, Harald; Pedashenko, Hristo; Peet, Robert K.; Pielech, Remigiusz; Pipenbaher, Nataša; Pirini, Chrisoula; Plesková, Zuzana; Polyakova, Mariya A.; Prentice, Honor C.; Reinecke, Jennifer; Reitalu, Triin; Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar; Roleček, Jan; Ronkin, Vladimir; Rosati, Leonardo; Rosén, Ejvind; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rusina, Solvita; Sabovljević, Marko; Sánchez, Ana María; Savchenko, Galina; Schuhmacher, Oliver; Škornik, Sonja; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Staniaszek-Kik, Monika; Stevanović-Dajić, Zora; Stock, Marin; Suchrow, Sigrid; Sutcliffe, Laura M. E.; Swacha, Grzegorz; Sykes, Martin; Szabó, Anna; Talebi, Amir; Tănase, Cătălin; Terzi, Massimo; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Torca, Marta; Török, Péter; Tóthmérész, Béla; Tsarevskaya, Nadezda; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Tzonev, Rossen; Ushimaru, Atushi; Valkó, Orsolya; van der Maarel, Eddy; Vanneste, Thomas; Vashenyak, Iuliia; Vassilev, Kiril; Viciani, Daniele; Villar, Luis; Virtanen, Risto; Kosić, Ivana Vitasović; Wang, Yun; Weiser, Frank; Went, Julia; Wesche, Karsten; White, Hannah; Winkler, Manuela; Zaniewski, Piotr T.; Zhang, Hui; Ziv, Yaron; Znamenskiy, Sergey; Biurrun, Idoia (Journal article, 2018)
      GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). GrassPlot collects plot records ...