Assessing the environmental impacts of freshwater consumption in LCA.

By S. Pfister, A. Koehler, S. Hellweg. Environmental Science and Technology, 2009

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Spatially explicit assessment of water embodied in European trade: A product-level multi-regional input-output analysis (2016, methodology): “…level is the most relevant level for water management – as has been recognised already by the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (European Parliament and Council 2000) and by widely used water scarcity assessment methods (e.g. BWSI; Hoekstra et al. 2012; EEA 2014; Pfister et al. 2009).”
The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE) (2018, methodology): “While the AWARE modeling requires an intrinsic cut-off, it does not include additional modeling, such as a logistic curve as done previously in other methods (Pfister et al. 2009; Boulay et al. 2011b; Berger et al. 2014).”
The energy and water nexus in Chinese electricity production: A hybrid life cycle analysis (2014, background): “(2009) [50] for the detailed descriptions of the index).”
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis (2018, methodology): “Figure 5a-b ranks the degree of water scarcity for all regions in China, Japan, and South Korea in terms of the Water Stress Index (WSI) (see Pfister et al., 2009).”
Biofuel scenarios in a water perspective: the global blue and green water footprint of road transport in 2030 (2012, background): “In addition, from the life cycle assessment community, it has been suggested to multiply each blue WF component by a water-stress index in order to get a measure of local environmental impact and to neglect green WFs, because impacts would be negligible (Pfister et al., 2009).”
The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology (2016, background): “…and, secondly, with the increasing evidence of the importance of regionalized impact assessment (Mutel et al. 2013, 2012; Mutel and Hellweg 2009; Pfister et al. 2009; Potting and Hauschild 1997, 2006; Wegener Sleeswijk and Heijungs 2010), these localized supply chains would not be appropriately…”
Review and classification of indicators of green water availability and scarcity (2015, background): “FAO (1986); Verdin and Klaver (2002) Crop Water Stress Index CWSI 1− EactEpot Jackson et al. (1981); Moran et al. (1994) Evaporative Stress Index ESI Idem to CWSI.”
Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment. (2009, methodology): “Pfister et al., 2009, in contrast, suggest a damage-oriented method for determining impacts on endpoint level and provide regionalized characterisation factors for water use.”
Interpretation of comparative LCAs: external normalization and a method of mutual differences (2017, background): “…Dones et al. 2007; Verbeeck and Hens 2010; Jungbluth et al. 2012), calculating new midpoint characterization factors (Koellner and Scholz 2007; Pfister et al. 2009; Van Zelm et al. 2009; Gallego et al. 2010; Saad et al. 2011; Hauschild et al. 2013), and improving end-point damage modeling…”
The environmental relevance of freshwater consumption in global power production (2011, methodology): “The results of this study are based on the EI99 method and the water impact assessment method developed by Pfister et al. (2009a), which represents the current state of the art.”
THE INS AND OUTS OF WATER USE – A REVIEW OF MULTI-REGION INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS AND WATER FOOTPRINTS FOR REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND POLICY (2011, background): “It is not always easy to use them to understand the multiple, and often interactive, resource and other societal ‘triple bottom line’ (TBL) effects of an economic function (Pfister et al., 2009).”