Blar i Institutt for energi og prosessteknikk på tidsskrift "Environmental Science and Technology"
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A Methodology for Integrated, Multiregional Life Cycle Assessment Scenarios under Large-Scale Technological Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Climate change mitigation demands large-scale technological change on a global level and, if successfully implemented, will significantly affect how products and services are produced and consumed. In order to anticipate ... -
A Multimedia Hydrological Fate Modeling Framework To Assess Water Consumption Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment
(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
(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 Recovery and Transformation Impacts for Wetland Biodiversity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods for land use take both occupation and transformation impacts into account. However, for wetlands and impacts from water consumption, it is so far not possible to account for transformation ... -
Combining Fleetwide AviTeam Aviation Emission Modeling with LCA Perspectives for an Alternative Fuel Impact Assessment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Reducing aviation emissions is important as they contribute to air pollution and climate change. Several alternative aviation fuels that may reduce life cycle emissions have been proposed. Comparative life cycle assessments ... -
Effects of Circularity Interventions in the European Plastic Packaging Sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Low levels of plastics circularity today reflect major challenges for the sector to reduce environmental impacts and a need for wider systemic change. In this work, we investigated the potential for climate and socioeconomic ... -
Endogenizing capital in MRIO models - the implications for consumption-based accounting
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FABIO – The Construction of the Food and Agriculture Biomass Input-Output Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Harvested biomass is linked to final consumption by networks of processes and actors that convert and distribute food and nonfood goods. Achieving a sustainable resource metabolism of the economy is an overarching challenge ... -
Global Circular Economy Scenario in a Multiregional Input-Output Framework
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In a resource-constrained world of an estimated 10 billion people in 2050 with the same material aspirations of today’s high-income nations, there is no question: The future economy will need to be circular. From a policy ... -
Global Shipping Emissions from a Well-to-Wake Perspective: The MariTEAM Model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Improving the robustness of maritime emission inventories is important to ensure we fully understand the point of embarkment for transformation pathways of the sector toward the 1.5 and 2°C targets. A bottom-up assessment ... -
Improved Copper Circularity as a Result of Increased Material Efficiency in the U.S. Housing Stock
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Material efficiency (ME) can support rapid climate change mitigation and circular economy. Here, we comprehensively assess the circularity of ME strategies for copper use in the U.S. housing services (including residential ... -
Linking Housing Policy, Housing Typology, and Residential Energy Demand in the United States
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Residential energy demand can be greatly influenced by the types of housing structures that households live in, but few studies have assessed changes in the composition of housing stocks as a strategy for reducing residential ... -
Mapping Plastic and Plastic Additive Cycles in Coastal Countries: A Norwegian Case Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The growing environmental consequences caused by plastic pollution highlight the need for a better understanding of plastic polymer cycles and their associated additives. We present a novel, comprehensive top-down method ... -
Material Stock and Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Global and Urban Road Pavement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Roads play a key role in movements of goods and people but require large amounts of materials emitting greenhouse gases to be produced. This study assesses the global road material stock and the emissions associated with ... -
Modeling net land occupation of hydropower reservoirs in Norway for use in life cycle assessment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Increasing hydropower electricity production constitutes a unique opportunity to mitigate climate change impacts. However, hydropower electricity production also impacts aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity through freshwater ... -
Potential Climate Impact Variations Due to Fueling Behavior of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Owners in the US
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)With the expected rapid growth of renewable electricity generation, charging plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) from the grid promise ever higher reductions in CO2 emissions. Previous analyses have found that the ... -
Review of Urban Building Types and Their Energy Use and Carbon Emissions in Life-Cycle Analyses from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Urbanization, slum redevelopment, and population growth will lead to unprecedented levels of residential building construction in “low- and middle-income” (LMI) countries in the coming decades. However, less than 50% of ... -
Systemic approaches for emission reduction in industrial plants based on physical accounting: example for an aluminium smelter
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting in industrial plants usually has multiple purposes, including mandatory reporting, shareholder and stakeholder communication, developing key performance indicators (KPIs), or informing ... -
The Importance of Ships and Spare Parts in LCAs of Offshore Wind Power
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We develop and assess life cycle inventories of a conceptual offshore wind farm using a hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Special emphasis is placed on aspects of installation, operation, and maintenance, as ... -
The uncertainty of consumption-based carbon accounts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Consumption-based carbon accounts (CBCAs) track how final demand in a region causes carbon emissions elsewhere due to supply chains in the global economic network, taking into account international trade. Despite the ...