Joint life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis of grape production for vinification in the Rías Baixas appellation (NW Spain)

Vázquez‐Rowe, Ian; Villanueva-Rey, Pedro; Iribarren, Diego; Moreira, Marı́a Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.12.039

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“…In fact, as showed in Figure 3, training and planting stages represent the most pollutant stages, in accordance with the study by Fusi et al [31]; however, in the organic scenarios there are significant emissions during the production stage because of the larger use of mechanical operations (e.g., for weeding). This higher incidence in organic scenarios is in accordance with the findings by Villanueva-Rey et al [37], relatively to biodynamic scenarios, endorsing also the results obtained by Point et al [132] and Vázquez-Rowe et al [48,53,133]. Overall, the organic scenarios obtain the worst results due to the lower productivity that causes the higher incidence of impacts per kg of product.…”

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Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Vine-Growing Combining Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Multicriterial Analysis

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Abstract:The wine sector is going through a significant evolution dealing with the challenges of competition issues in international markets and with necessary commitments to sustainability improvement. In the wine supply chain, the agricultural phase represents a potential source of pollution and costs. From the farmers' point of view, these contexts require them to be more attentive and find a compromise among environmental benefits, economic benefits, and costs linked to farming practices. This paper aims to make a sustainability assessment of different wine-growing scenarios located in Calabria (Southern Italy) that combines conflicting insights, i.e., environmental and economic ones, by applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to identify the main hotspots and select the alternative scenarios closest to the ideal solution through the VIKOR multicriteria method. In particular, the latter allowed us to obtain synthetic indices for a two-dimensional sustainability assessment. Conventional practices associated to the espalier training system represent the best compromise from both environmental and economic points of view, due to the higher yield per hectare. The choices regarding Functional Unit (FU) and indicators were shown to have a high influence on results.

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Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Vine-Growing Combining Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Multicriterial Analysis

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“…The predicted pollutant load (Drift i ) depends on the application dose RATE i (kg¨ha´1) of the i-th active ingredient Drift i " RATE i¨fdrift (25) where f drift is a fraction representing the drift deposit at a certain distance from the field, and depends on crop type, stage and distance from water body (z). The drift curves [54] were used to predict drift at certain distance downwind the field, as a percentage of the applied dose [55] f drift "…”

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Water and Carbon Footprint of Wine: Methodology Review and Application to a Case Study

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Life cycle assessments (LCAs) play a strategic role in improving the environmental performance of a company and in supporting a successful marketing communication. The high impact of the food industry on natural resources, in terms of water consumption and greenhouse gases emission, has been focusing the attention of consumers and producers towards environmentally sustainable products. This work presents a comprehensive approach for the joint evaluation of carbon (CF) and water (WF) footprint of the wine industry from a cradle to grave perspective. The LCA analysis is carried out following the requirements of international standards (ISO/TS 14067 and ISO 14046). A complete review of the water footprint methodology is presented and guidelines for all the phases of the evaluation procedure are provided, including acquisition and validation of input data, allocation, application of analytic models, and interpretation of the results. The strength of this approach is the implementation of a side-by-side CF vs. WF assessment, based on the same system boundaries, functional unit, and input data, that allows a reliable comparison between the two indicators. In particular, a revised methodology is presented for the evaluation of the grey water component. The methodology was applied to a white and a red wine produced in the same company. A comparison between the two products is presented for each LCA phase along with literature results for similar wines.

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“…P-LCA captures the environmental discharges by quantifying energy and material use from all life cycle processes (Ewing et al, 2011). P-LCA has been applied to various research fields such as ready meals (Calderón et al, 2010), fisheries (Vá zquez-Rowe et al, 2010;Lozano et al, 2010), agriculture (Mohammadi et al, 2013;Vá zquez-Rowe and Villanueva-Rey, 2012), dairy farm (Iribarren et al, 2011;Eide, 2002), energy (Iribarren et al, 2014;Barba-Gutié rrez et al, 2008) and construction (Tatari and Kucukvar, 2011). But these works pay specific attention to the limited phases of the life cycle such as onsite (process impacts) where the indirect impacts associated with supply chains were not considered.…”

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TRACI Assessment of Transportation Manufacturing Nexus in the U.S.: A Supply Chain-linked Cradle-to-Gate LCA

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2015

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Sustainable transportation is an inevitable component of sustainable development intitiatives for mitigating the climate change impacts and stabilizing the rising carbon emissions thus global temperature. In this context, comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of transportation can play a critical role towards quantifying the midpoint environmental and human health related impacts associated with the transportation activities triggered by manufacturing sectors. This study traces the life cycle impact of the U.S. transportation and manufacturing sectors' nexus using Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemicals and Other Environmental Impacts (TRACI) in the context of the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) framework considering the following midpoint impact categories: 'global warming', 'particulate matter', 'eutrophication', 'acidification', and 'smog air'. Both direct (onsite) and indirect (supply chain) industries' relationships with transportation industry are considered as the main scope. Results indicated that top ten contributor manufacturing sectors accounted for over 55% total environmental impacts on each impact category. Additionally, based on the decomposition analysis, food manufacturing sector was found to be the major contributor to smog air with an approximate share of 21% in the entire supply chain. Automobile related manufacturing sectors also have significant impact on all five life cycle impact categories that the environmental impact of transportation Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

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Joint life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis of grape production for vinification in the Rías Baixas appellation (NW Spain)

Cited by 180 publications

References 28 publications

Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Vine-Growing Combining Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Multicriterial Analysis

Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Vine-Growing Combining Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Multicriterial Analysis

Water and Carbon Footprint of Wine: Methodology Review and Application to a Case Study

TRACI Assessment of Transportation Manufacturing Nexus in the U.S.: A Supply Chain-linked Cradle-to-Gate LCA

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