Abstract:
:International corporations in an increasingly globalized economy exert a major influence on the planet's land use and resources through their product design and material sourcing decisions. Many companies use life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate their sustainability, yet commonly-used LCA methodologies lack the spatial resolution and predictive ecological information to reveal key impacts on climate, water and biodiversity. We present advances for LCA that integrate spatially explicit modelling of land change and ecosystem services in a Land-Use Change Improved (LUCI)-LCA. Comparing increased demand for bioplastics derived from two alternative feedstock-location scenarios for maize and sugarcane, we find that the LUCI-LCA approach yields results opposite to those of standard LCA for greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption, and of different magnitudes for soil erosion and biodiversity. This approach highlights the importance of including information about where and how land-use change and related impacts will occur in supply chain and innovation decisions.
journal_name
Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Chaplin-Kramer R,Sim S,Hamel P,Bryant B,Noe R,Mueller C,Rigarlsford G,Kulak M,Kowal V,Sharp R,Clavreul J,Price E,Polasky S,Ruckelshaus M,Daily Gdoi
10.1038/ncomms15065subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-04-21 00:00:00pages
15065issn
2041-1723pii
ncomms15065journal_volume
8pub_type
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