• A Multimedia Hydrological Fate Modeling Framework To Assess Water Consumption Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment 

      Núñez, Montse; Rosenbaum, Ralph K; Karimpour, S; Boulay, Anne-Marie; Lathuilliere, Michael J; Margni, Manuele; Scherer, Laura; Verones, Francesca; Pfister, Stephan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Many new methods have recently been developed to address environmental consequences of water consumption in life cycle assessment (LCA). However, such methods can only partially be compared and combined, because their ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method 

      Verones, Francesca; Hellweg, Stefanie; Anton, Assumpcio; Azevedo, Ligia B; Chaudhary, Abhishek; Cosme, Nuno; Cucurachi, Stefano; de Baan, Laura; Dong, Yang; Fantke, Peter; Golsteijn, Laura; Hauschild, Michael; Heijungs, Reinout; Jolliet, Olivier; Juraske, Ronnie; Larsen, Henrik; Laurent, Alexis; Mutel, Christopher; Margni, Manuele; Núñez, Montse; Owsianiak, Mikolaj; Pfister, Stephan; Ponsioen, Tommie; Preiss, Phillip; Rosenbaum, Ralf; Roy, Pierre-Olivier; Sala, Serenella; Steinmann, Zoran J.N.; Van Zelm, Rosalie; Van Dingenen, Rita; Vieira, Marisa; Huijbregts, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a lively field of research, and data and models are continuously improved in terms of impact pathways covered, reliability, and spatial detail. However, many of these advancements ...
    • LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative 

      Verones, Francesca; Bare, Jane; Bulle, Cecile; Frischknecht, Rolf; Hauschild, Michael; Hellweg, Stefanie; Henderson, Andrew; Jolliet, Olivier; Laurent, Alexis; Liao, Xun; Lindner, Jan Paul; Maia de Souza, Danielle; Michelsen, Ottar; Patouillard, Laure; Pfister, Stephan; Posthuma, Leo; Prado, Valentina; Ridoutt, Bradley G.; Rosenbaum, Ralph K; Sala, Serenella; Ugaya, Cassia; Vieira, Marisa; Fantke, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Increasing needs for decision support and advances in scientific knowledge within life cycle assessment (LCA) led to substantial efforts to provide global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) ...
    • Linking land use inventories to biodiversity impact assessment methods 

      Scherer, Laura; De Laurentiis, Valeria; Marques, Alexandra; Michelsen, Ottar; Alejandre, Elizabeth Migoni; Pfister, Stephan; Rosa, Francesca; Rugani, Benedetto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      There is generally a mismatch in the land use classification of life cycle inventory (LCI) databases and life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods. This mismatch can hinder the proper assessment of land use impacts on ...
    • Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment 

      Mutel, Christopher; Liao, Xun; Patouillard, Laure; Bare, Jane; Fantke, Peter; Frischknecht, Rolf; Hauschild, Michael; Jolliet, Olivier; Maia de Souza, Danielle; Laurent, Alexis; Pfister, Stephan; Verones, Francesca (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose Regionalized life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) has rapidly developed in the past decade, though its widespread application, robustness, and validity still face multiple challenges. Under the umbrella of UNEP/SETAC ...