Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services

Arbault, Damien; Rivière, Mylène; Rugani, Benedetto; Benetto, Enrico; Tiruta-Barna, Ligia

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.099

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“…Such an integrated approach could be better adapted to reflect the “LCA” logic, by embedding, for instance, some life cycle inventory (LCI) data sets as input sources into the system (Arbault et al. ). Tools that specifically assess relevant aspects associated with sustainability (risk analysis, cost‐benefit analysis, etc.)…”

Section: Path Forward For Life Cycle Sustainability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A better discussion on MIMES and its application is presented in the supporting information on the Web, section E. A further downscaling of an integrated earth system model like MIMES to a product level could improve the accuracy of LCSA-related outputs through the use of technology-and process-based information, while going beyond current knowledge of complex systems' sustainability. Such an integrated approach could be better adapted to reflect the "LCA" logic, by embedding, for instance, some life cycle inventory (LCI) data sets as input sources into the system (Arbault et al 2014). Tools that specifically assess relevant aspects associated with sustainability (risk analysis, costbenefit analysis, etc.)…”

Section: Path Forward For Life Cycle Sustainability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Revision of What Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Should Entail: Towards Modeling the Net Impact on Human Well‐Being

Schaubroeck

Rugani

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary The main goal of a sustainability assessment is to evaluate the impact of systems (e.g., human or natural ones) on areas sought to be protected and maintained over time (e.g., human well‐being, ecosystems, etc.). These are called areas of protection (AoPs). Life cycle sustainability assessment is a type of sustainability assessment that focuses on the impact of industrial production systems on AoPs. To further this field, three conceptual challenges should be tackled: (1) framing which areas should primarily be sustained and hence on which the impact should be assessed, that is, (re)defining of the AoPs; (2) accounting for the interconnectedness among AoPs (e.g., influence of ecosystems on human well‐being); and (3) the assessment of both benefit and damage to the AoPs (e.g., benefit of industrial products and damage of their production). The aim of this study is to provide a first roadmap to address these three issues and to suggest potential solutions. Regarding the first issue, our conclusion is that human well‐being, encompassing health and happiness, is the primary AoP. This is based on the argument that the sustainability concept is inherently anthropocentric. In this regard, other entities such as ecosystems as a whole are sustained in light of human well‐being. The well‐being adjusted life years, interpreted as years of perfect well‐being, is pinpointed as the most promising holistic indicator. To conduct a respective sustainability assessment that tackles the remaining two issues—integrated system modeling of the earth and its support to well‐being—is argued as the most suitable approach.

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Section: Path Forward For Life Cycle Sustainability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Path Forward For Life Cycle Sustainability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Revision of What Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Should Entail: Towards Modeling the Net Impact on Human Well‐Being

Schaubroeck

Rugani

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…To this end, scientists have been working on the development of integrated modelling tools to assess the contribution of ecosystems to human activities (see Bagstad, (2013) for a review). In the case of commodity productions, we refer to system dynamics, such as the global unified meta-model of the biosphere (Boumans et al, 2002), later advanced by (Arbault et al, 2014) and then proposed to build a dynamic approach to value ES with the multi-scale integrated model of ES (MIMES: (Boumans et al, 2015)). However, most of Earth system dynamics modelling tools are very coarse in their capability to represent human decision making and thus very far away from representing fine-grained social dynamics.…”

Section: Ecosystem Services Inter-linkages and Trade-offsmentioning

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Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land

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Essential environmental resources are rapidly exploited globally, while socialecological systems at different scales fail to meet sustainable development challenges. Ecosystem services research, which at present predominantly utilizes static modelling approaches, needs better integration with socio-economic dynamics in order to assist a scientific approach to sustainability. This article focuses on Brownfield lands, a unique landscape that is undergoing transformations and provides ecosystem services that remain, at this point in time, mostly unrecognized in public discourse. We discuss the main issues associated with current modelling and valuation approaches and formulate an ecosystem-based integrated redevelopment workflow applied to the assessment of Brownfield redevelopment options.

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“…Trees and other low-input perennial bioenergy feedstock planted within agricultural landscapes have the potential to regulate water flow rates and nutrient transfer from soil to water, and also to reduce soil erosion and wind damage (Bennett et al 2014;Carsan et al 2014). Default emission factors for nitrate leaching, phosphorus runoff and ammonia volatilisation used in LCA studies are typically not calibrated to landscape-context-dependent hydrological and nutrient cycling parameters (Arbault et al 2014). Thus, whilst LCA is invaluable for comparing the environmental efficiency of food and bioenergy supply chains, it has so far been of limited use to evaluate and inform spatially explicit strategies for sustainable bioenergy deployment-a task increasingly addressed using the ecosystem approach (Maskell et al 2013) that may neglect important upstream and downstream indirect effects.…”

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Climate regulation, energy provisioning and water purification: Quantifying ecosystem service delivery of bioenergy willow grown on riparian buffer zones using life cycle assessment

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Whilst life cycle assessment (LCA) boundaries are expanded to account for negative indirect consequences of bioenergy such as indirect land use change (ILUC), ecosystem services such as water purification sometimes delivered by perennial bioenergy crops are typically neglected in LCA studies. Consequential LCA was applied to evaluate the significance of nutrient interception and retention on the environmental balance of unfertilised energy willow planted on 50-m riparian buffer strips and drainage filtration zones in the Skåne region of Sweden. Excluding possible ILUC effects and considering oil heat substitution, strategically planted filter willow can achieve net global warming potential (GWP) and eutrophication potential (EP) savings of up to 11.9 Mg CO 2 e and 47 kg PO 4 e ha -1 year -1 , respectively, compared with a GWP saving of 14.8 Mg CO 2 e ha -1 year -1 and an EP increase of 7 kg PO 4 e ha -1 year -1 for fertilised willow. Planting willow on appropriate buffer and filter zones throughout Skåne could avoid 626 Mg year -1 PO 4 e nutrient loading to waters.

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Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services

Cited by 57 publications

References 48 publications

A Revision of What Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Should Entail: Towards Modeling the Net Impact on Human Well‐Being

A Revision of What Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Should Entail: Towards Modeling the Net Impact on Human Well‐Being

Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land

Climate regulation, energy provisioning and water purification: Quantifying ecosystem service delivery of bioenergy willow grown on riparian buffer zones using life cycle assessment

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