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Sustainable tourism as a factor of local development: Monza, November 2008
In: Simposi 1
Food waste accounting along global and European food supply chains: State of the art and outlook
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 79, S. 120-131
ISSN: 1879-2456
GIS-based procedure for site-specific risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic ecosystems
In: Ecotoxicology and environmental safety: EES ; official journal of the International Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental safety, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 1-12
ISSN: 1090-2414
Resource footprint of Europe: Complementarity of material flow analysis and life cycle assessment for policy support
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 54, S. 367-376
ISSN: 1462-9011
Research findings and decision making: the case of renewable energy
In: Environmental sciences Europe: ESEU, Band 25, Heft 1
ISSN: 2190-4715
Spatially explicit method for ecotoxicological risk assessment of pesticides for birds
In: Ecotoxicology and environmental safety: EES ; official journal of the International Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental safety, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 213-221
ISSN: 1090-2414
Quantifying household waste of fresh fruit and vegetables in the EU
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 77, S. 238-251
ISSN: 1879-2456
Exploring the EU Plastic Value Chain: A Material Flow Analysis
In: RECYCL-D-22-04677
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Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: Enabling Decision Making for Safe and Sustainable by Design Chemicals and Materials
In: STOTEN-D-23-23498
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Prioritizing and optimizing sustainable measures for food waste prevention and management
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 72, S. 3-16
ISSN: 1879-2456
Life cycle thinking for the assessment of waste and circular economy policy: status and perspectives from the EU example
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 179, S. 205-215
ISSN: 1879-2456
Corrigendum to "Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries"
• Planetary Boundaries help quantify the environmental sustainability of consumption. • We developed LCIA-based planetary boundaries for evaluating the EU consumption. • EU consumption occupies a high share of the safe operating space globally available. • Planetary boundaries are fundamental to support policy making towards sustainability. • LCA-based planetary boundaries show intrinsic uncertainties.
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Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries
The planetary boundaries (PBs) represent a well-known concept, which helps identify whether production and consumption systems are environmentally sustainable in absolute terms, namely compared to the Earth's ecological limits and carrying capacity. In this study, the impacts of production and consumption of the European Union in 2010 were assessed by means of life cycle assessment (LCA)-based indicators and compared with the PBs. Five different perspectives were adopted for assessing the impacts: a production perspective (EU Domestic Footprint) and four distinct consumption perspectives, resulting from alternative modelling approaches including both top-down (input-output LCA) and bottom-up (process-based LCA). Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) results were assessed against LCIA-based PBs, which adapted the PBs framework to the LCIA indicators and metrics of the Environmental Footprint method (EF). Global environmental impacts transgressed several LCIA-based PBs. When assessing the overall environmental impacts of EU consumption compared to the global LCIA-based PBs, impacts of EU consumption related to climate change, particulate matter, land use and mineral resources were close or already transgressed the global boundaries. The EU, with less than 10% of the world population, was close to transgress the global ecological limits. Moreover, when downscaling the global PBs and comparing the impacts per capita for an average EU citizen and a global one, the LCIA-PBs were significantly transgressed in many impact categories. The results are affected by uncertainty mainly due to: (a) the intrinsic uncertainties of the different LCA modelling approaches and indicators; (b) the uncertainties in estimating LCIA-based PBs, due to the difficulties in identifying limits for the Earth's processes and referring them to LCIA metrics. The results may anyway be used to define benchmarks and policy targets to ensure that consumption and production in Europe remains within safe ecological boundaries, as well as to understand ...
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