Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Analysis and/or Modeling, and Landscape Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 402
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecosystem services at the landscape scale; sustainability; human wellbeing; urban planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Life-Cycle Assessment, the idea of examining a product of manufacturing or agriculture from the extraction of raw materials, through the production and use of the product, until its final use and/or disposal, began in the late 1960s and developed a strong practice by the 1990s. Today, we see the tenants of Life-Cycle Assessment as a three-legged framework of Inventory, Impact Assessment, and Improvement Assessment. Over the past few decades, environmental analyses have become useful tools in Life-Cycle Assessment, in part because they provide an approach to exploring how effective changes to the life-cycle of a product can reduce its environmental impacts. In a highly urbanized world, the idea of introducing landscape sustainability as a metric to quantify or qualify improvements in the life-cycle of a product is intriguing because it could encourage new approaches for environmental improvements in manufacturing and agricultural production. These approaches could have potential benefits on food production systems and consumption patterns that are a current threat to ecosystem services, biodiversity, and human wellbeing. Spatially explicit methodologies and environmental modeling can be particularly useful to reveal how urbanization and land-use change are affecting manufacturing and agricultural production and to quantify associated present and future ecological impacts. For this Special Issue, we are seeking papers that 1) explore how environmental analyses and/or modeling can be used to inject landscape sustainability concepts into one or more of the basic tenants of Life-Cycle Assessment, and 2) provide novel frameworks and methodologies that integrate and assess Life Cycle-Assessment, land-use change, and sustainability.
Dr. Angélica Valencia Torres
Prof. Dr. Sam Atkinson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape sustainability
- life-cycle assessment
- environmental modelling
- sustainable agriculture production
- land-use and cover change
- ecosystem services
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