Project outcomes
List of final deliverables resulting from the LC-IMPACT project
List of final deliverables resulting from the LC-IMPACT project
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WP1 - Resource use impacts
- D1.6 Land use impacts
- D1.7 Water use impacts
- D1.8 Marine resource use impacts
- D1.9 Abiotic resource use impacts (coming soon)
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WP2 - Ecotoxicity and human toxicity
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WP3 - Non toxic pollutant impacts
- D3.7 Aquatic eutrophication
- Understand the new methods developed in LC-IMPACT for freshwater and marine eutrophication
- Understand the indicators development and apply the methodology
- Module 1: Introduction (45 min)
- Introduction to freshwater eutrophication
- Fundamentals of marine eutrophication
- Download module (pdf)
- Module 2 : Spatially-explicit Characterization factors for freshwater eutrophication on a global scale (45 min)
- Introduction to freshwater eutrophication modelling
- Currently recommended method
- Proposed method by LC-IMPACT
- Main differences between currently and proposed method
- Download module (pdf)
- Endpoint modeling of Marine Eutrophication (45 min)
- Model framework
- Fate, Exposure, and Effect
- Exercises
- Sensitivity and uncertainty
- Conclusions
- Download module (pdf)
- Download excercises (xlsx)
- D3.8 Terrestrial acidification
- D3.9 Particulate matter formation impacts (available soon; contact: Rosalie van Zelm, r.vanzelm@science.ru.nl)
- D4.10 Photochemical ozone formation impacts (available soon; contact: Rosalie van Zelm, r.vanzelm@science.ru.nl
- D3.11 Noise impacts
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WP4 - Case studies
- D4.7 Fish case study
- D4.8 Tomato case study
- D4.9 Margarine case study
- D4.10 Paper production and printing case study
- D4.11 Car manufacturing and operation case study
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WP5 - Dissemination
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Course Materials
- Resource use impacts
- Non-toxic pollutant impacts
- European characterization factors for damage to natural vegetation by ozone
- Freshwater eutrophication
- Terrestrial acidification
- Aquatic eutrophication
- Understand the new methods developed in LC-IMPACT for freshwater and marine eutrophication
- Understand the indicators development and apply the methodology
- Module 1: Introduction (45 min)
- Introduction to freshwater eutrophication
- Fundamentals of marine eutrophication
- Download module (pdf)
- Module 2 : Spatially-explicit Characterization factors for freshwater eutrophication on a global scale (45 min)
- Introduction to freshwater eutrophication modelling
- Currently recommended method
- Proposed method by LC-IMPACT
- Main differences between currently and proposed method
- Download module (pdf)
- Endpoint modeling of Marine Eutrophication (45 min)
- Model framework
- Fate, Exposure, and Effect
- Exercises
- Sensitivity and uncertainty
- Conclusions
- Download module (pdf)
- Download excercises (xlsx)
- Fine particulate matter
- Exotoxicity and human toxicity
- Ecotoxic Effects on warm blooded Predators
- Terrestrial ecotoxicity assessment of metals
- Identify processes governing metal fate, accessibility, bioavailability and toxicity in soils
- Calculate comparative toxicity potentials of a metal in soil
- Utilize this knowledge in regionalized impact assessment
- Block 1 (45 min)
- Characterization models and modeling metal fate (20 min)
- Major fate mechanisms for metals in soil (10 min)
- Exercise A: calculate fate factor of Cu in 5 soils using USEtox (10 min)
- Software requirements: Microsoft Excel and the USEtox model
- Reading: (1)
- Speciation models and modeling metal exposure (20 min)
- Structure of speciation models (10 min)
- Exercise B: calculate accessibility and bioavailability factors of Cu in 5 soils using empirical regression models (10 min)
- Software requirements: Microsoft Excel
- Readings: (2) and (3)
- Block 2 (45 min)
- Terrestrial ecotoxicity modeling (20 min)
- Structure of terrestrial ecotoxicity models (10 min)
- Exercise C: calculate effect factor of Cu in 5 soils using terrestrial biotic ligand models (10 min)
- Software requirements: Microsoft Excel
- Readings: (4) and (5)
- Calculation of comparative toxicity potentials (20 min)
- Introduction to case study (5 min)
- Case study: calculate weighted CTP for Cu emitted from a power plant (15 min)
- Software requirements: Microsoft Exce
- Reading: (6, 7)
- Dynamic multi-crop model to characterize impacts of pesticides in food
- explain the principles and processes involved in the distribution of pesticides applied to different food crops
- quantify potential health impacts from pesticide intake via food crop consumption
- discuss different potentials for pesticide substitution
- Ph.D. students
- new and experienced researchers in the field of environmental chemistry and engineering
- practitioners in life cycle impact assessment and risk assessment
- Introduction into pesticide residues in food crops and assessment model design
- Characterizing pesticides impacts and comparison across pesticides and food crops (30 min)
- Insight into potentials for pesticide substitution (30 min)
- Quantification and analysis of residues, health impacts and substitution potentials (15 min)
- Exercises – (45 min)
- General guidance Impact assessment Also, three of the course materials are developed on the principles of impact assessment. These course materials intend to outline the field impact assessment.
Course: Aquatic Eutrophication
The Technical University of Denmark has develop a Short course on LC-impact modeling for aquatic Eutrophication in LCIA.
A participant who follows this course will be able to:
This course is developed or Students (BSc, MSc, PhD) and professionals, either method developers or practitioners and interested in characterization and impact assessment (LCIA).
Course outline
The course is designed in 3 blocks of 45 minutes
The developed course materials can be used in training and communication. All courses will give a detailed description of the developed methodology, provide insight in bringing the methodology in to practice and indicate where possibilities for further research lie.
Methodology
These courses are especially developed for researchers that want to gain more insight in the developed methodologies. That way, researchers can learn more about the developed methodology for:
Course: Aquatic Eutrophication
The Technical University of Denmark has develop a Short course on LC-impact modeling for aquatic Eutrophication in LCIA.
A participant who follows this course will be able to:
This course is developed or Students (BSc, MSc, PhD) and professionals, either method developers or practitioners and interested in characterization and impact assessment (LCIA).
Course outline
The course is designed in 3 blocks of 45 minutes
Course: Terrestrial ecotoxicity assessment of metals
The Technical University of Denmark has develop a complete course on terrestrial ecotoxicity of metals.
A participant who follows this course will be able to:
A basic knowledge of environmental processes is required. A participant should be comfortable with employing mathematical models and should be comfortable working with computers.
Course outline
The course is designed in 2 blocks of 45 minutes
Background Readings
(1)Rosenbaum, R. K., T. M. Bachmann, et al. (2008). "USEtox-the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13(7): 532-546.
(2) Groenenberg, J. E., P. F. A. M. Römkens, et al. (2010). "Transfer functions for solid-solution partitioning of cadmium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc in soils: derivation of relationships for free metal ion activities and validation with independent data." European Journal of Soil Science 61(1): 58-73.
(3) Rodrigues, S. M., B. Henriques, et al. (2010). "Evaluation of an approach for the characterization of reactive and available pools of twenty potentially toxic elements in soils: Part I - The role of key soil properties in the variation of contaminants' reactivity." Chemosphere 81(11): 1549-1559.
(4) Thakali, S., H. E. Allen, et al. (2006). "A terrestrial biotic ligand model. 1. Development and application to Cu and Ni toxicities to barley root elongation in soils." Environmental Science & Technology 40(22): 7085-7093.
(5) Thakali, S., H. E. Allen, et al. (2006). "Terrestrial biotic ligand model. 2. Application to Ni and Cu toxicities to plants, invertebrates, and microbes in soil." Environmental Science & Technology 40(22): 7094-7100.
(6) Owsianiak M, Rosenbaum RK, Huijbregts MAJ, Hauschild MZ. 2013. "Addressing geographic variability in the comparative toxicity potential of copper and nickel in soils". Environmental Science and Technology 47(7):3241-3250.
(7) de Caritat, P., C. Reimann, et al. (1997). "Mass Balance between Emission and Deposition of Airborne Contaminants." Environmental Science & Technology 31(10): 2966-2972.
Course: Dynamic multi-crop model to characterize impacts of pesticides in food
Health impacts from pesticide use are of continuous concern. Hence, health impacts need to be characterized accounting for specific crops contributing differently to overall human exposure as well as accounting for individual substances showing distinct environmental behaviour and toxicity. We will work with a dynamic plant uptake model (dynamiCROP) to characterize potential health impacts of pesticides applied to six different food crops, based on a flexible set of interconnected compartments. In an exercise, we will demonstrate how to analyse the dynamics of residues by applying mathematical decomposition techniques. Finally, we investigate how toxicity potentials can be reduced by defining adequate pesticide substitution scenarios.
A participant who follows this course will be able to:
This course is designed for:
For this course a basic knowledge in environmental chemistry is required as well as reading the background materials. Insight into multimedia modeling, matrix algebra, life cycle impact assessment (and/or risk assessment) is useful.
The course
Course duration: 120 min (presentations and exercises)
Course presentation: Course Human Toxicity Pesticides - Presentation.pdf
Follow the course now via YouTube - Course: Dynamic multi-crop model
Background reading material:
All material will be made freely accessible to all course participants.
(1) Fantke et al., 2011: Environ Sci Technol 45, 8842-8849.
(2) Fantke et al., 2011: Chemosphere 85, 1639-1647.
(3) Juraske et al., 2012: Chemosphere 89, 850-855.
(4) Fantke et al., 2013: Environ Modell Softw 40, 316-324.
(5) Fantke et al., 2012: Environ Int 49, 9-17.
Publications
Publications
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Cross-cutting topics
- Curran M, De Baan L, De Schryver AM, Van Zelm R, Hellweg S, Koellner T, Sonneman G, Huijbregts MAJ. 2011. Toward meaningful endpoints of biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment. Environ Sci Techn, 45 (1): 70-79.
- Mutel C, Pfister S, Hellweg S. 2012. GIS-based regionalized life cycle assessment: how big is small enough? methodology and case study of electricity generation. Environ Sci Techn, 46 (2): 1096-1103.
- Van Zelm R, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Quantifying the trade-off between parameter and model structure uncertainty in life cycle impact assessment. Environ Sci Techn. 47(16): 9274–9280. Open access version
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Resource use impacts (WP1)
- Amores MJ, Verones F, Raptis C, Juraske R, Pfister S, Stoessel F, Antón A, Castells F, Hellweg S. 2013. Biodiversity impacts from salinity increase in a coastal wetland. Environ Sci Techn 47 (12): 6384–6392. Open access version
- De Baan L, Alkemade R, Koellner T. 2013. Land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: a global approach. Int J Life Cycle Assess 18 (6): 1216-1230.
- De Baan L, Mutel CL, Curran M, Hellweg S, Koellner T. 2013. Land use in life cycle assessment: global characterization factors based on regional and global potential species extinction (open access). Environ Sci Techn 47 (16): 9281–9290.
- Emanuelsson A, Ziegler F, Pihl L, Sköld M, Sonesson U. 2014. Accounting for overfishing in life cycle assessment: new impact categories for biotic resource use. Int J Life Cycle Assess 19 (5): 1156-1168.
- Hanafiah MM, Xenopoulos MA, Pfister S, Leuven RSEW, Huijbregts MAJ. 2011. Characterization factors for water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions based on freshwater fish species extinction. Environ Sci Techn 45 (12): 5272-5278. Open access version
- Hornborg S, Belgrano A, Bartolino V, Valentinsson D, Ziegler F. 2013. Trophic indicators in fisheries: a call for re-evaluation. Biology Letters 9.
- Koellner T, De Baan L, Beck T, Brandão M, Civit B, Goedkoop M, Margni M, Milà i Canals L, Müller-Wenk R, Weidema B, Wittstoch B. 2013. Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale. Int J Life Cycle Assess 18 (6): 1203-1215.
- Maia de Souza D, Flynn DB, DeClerck F, Rosenbaum R, Melo Lisboa H, Koellner T. 2013. Land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: proposal of characterization factors based on functional diversity. Int J Life Cycle Assess 18 (6): 1231-1242.
- Núñez M, Antón A, Muñoz P, Rieradevall J. 2013. Inclusion of soil erosion impacts in life cycle assessment on a global scale: application to energy crops in Spain. Int J Life Cycle Assess 18 (4): 755-767. Open access version
- Núñez M, Pfister S, Antón A, Muñoz P, Hellweg S, Koehler A, Rieradevall J. 2012. Assessing the environmental impacts of water consumption by energy crops grown in Spain. J Ind Ecol 17 (1): 90-102. Open access version
- Núñez M, Pfister S, Roux P, Antón A. 2013. Estimating water consumption of potential natural vegetation on global dry lands: building an LCA framework for green water flows. Environ Sci Technol 47 (21): 12258-12265. Open access version
- Ponsioen TC, Vieira MDM, Goedkoop MJ. 2014. Surplus cost as a life cycle impact indicator for fossil resource scarcity. Int J Life Cycle Assess 19 (4): 872-881.
- Van Zelm R, Muchada PAN, Van der Velde M, Kindermann G, Obersteiner M, Huijbregts MAJ. 2015. Impacts of biogenic CO2 emissions on human health and terrestrial ecosystems: the case of increased wood extraction for bioenergy production on a global scale. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 7 (4): 608-617.
- Verones F, Bartl K, Pfister S, Jiménez Vílchez R, Hellweg S. 2012. Modeling the local biodiversity impacts of agricultural water use: case study of a wetland in the coastal arid area of Peru (open access). Environ Sci Techn 46 (9): 4966-4974
- Verones F, Pfister S, Hellweg S. 2013. Quantifying area changes of internationally important wetlands due to water consumption in LCA (open access). Environ Sci Techn 47 (17): 9799–9807.
- Verones, F, Saner D, Pfister S, Baisero D, Rondinini C, Hellweg, S. 2013. Effects of consumptive water use on wetlands of international importance. Environ Sci Technol 47 (21): 12248-12257.
- Vieira MDM, Goedkoop MJ, Storm P, Huijbregts MAJ. 2012. Ore grade decrease as life cycle impact indicator for metal scarcity: the case of copper. Environ Sci Techn 46 (23): 12772-12778.
- Vieira M, Storm P, Goedkoop M. 2011. Stakeholder Consultation: What do Decision Makers in Public Policy and Industry Want to Know Regarding Abiotic Resource Use? Springer 27-34 pp.
- Van Zelm R, Schipper AM, Rombouts M, Snepvangers J, Huijbregts MAJ. 2011. Implementing groundwater extraction in life cycle impact assessment: characterization factors based on plant species richness. Environ Sci Techn 45 (2): 629-635. Open access version
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Ecotoxicity and human toxicity impacts (WP2)
- Ciuffo B, Sala S. 2013. Climate-based archetypes for the environmental fate assessment of chemicals. Journal of Environmental Management 129: 435-443. Open access version
- Fantke P, Juraske R, Antón A, Friedrich R, Jolliet O. 2011. Dynamic Multicrop Model to Characterize Impacts of Pesticides in Food. Environ Sci Techn 45 (20): 8842-8849.
- Fantke P, Wieland P, Juraske R, Shaddick G, Sevigné E, Friedrich R, Jolliet O., 2012. Parameterization models for pesticide exposure via crop consumption.Environ Sci Techn 46 (23): 12864-12872.
- Golsteijn L, Hendriks HWM, Van Zelm R, Ragas AMJ, Huijbregts MAJ. 2012. Do interspecies correlation estimations increase the reliability of the chemical effect assessment for wildlife? Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 80: 238-243. Open acces version Supporting infomation
- Golsteijn L, van Zelm R, Hendriks AJ, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Statistical uncertainty in hazardous terrestrial concentrations estimated with aquatic ecotoxicity data. Chemosphere 93 (2): 366-372.
- Golsteijn L, Van Zelm R, Veltman K, Musters G, Hendriks AJ, Huijbregts MAJ. 2012. Including ecotoxic effects on warm-blooded predators in life cycle impact assessment. Integr Environ Assess Manage 8 (2): 372-378.Open access publicationSupporting information
- Owsianiak M, Rosenbaum RK, Huijbregt, MAJ, Hauschild MZ. 2013. Addressing Geographic Variability in the Comparative Toxicity Potential of Copper and Nickel in Soils. Environ Sci Techn 47 (7): 3241−3250.
- Sala S, Marinov D, Pennington D. 2011. Spatial differentiation of chemical removal rates from air in life cycle impact assessment. Int J Life Cycle Assess 16 (8): 748-760. Open access version Supporting information
- Sala S, Marinov D, Kounina A, Margni M, Humbert S, Jolliet O, Shaked Sand Pennigton D, Life Cycle Impact Assessment of chemicals: relevance and feasibility of spatial differentiation for ecotoxicity and human toxicity impact assessment. Open access version
- Sevigné Itoiz E, Fantke P, Juraske R, Kounina A, Antón Vallejo A. 2012. Deposition and residues of azoxystrobin and imidacloprid on greenhouse lettuce with implications for human consumption. Chemosphere 89 (9): 1034-1041. Open access version
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Non-toxic pollutant impacts (WP3)
- Azevedo LB, Henderson AD, Van Zelm R, Jolliet O, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Assessing the importance of spatial variability versus model choices in life cycle impact assessment: the case of freshwater eutrophication in Europe. Environ Sci Technol 47(23): 13565–13570.
- Azevedo LA, Van Zelm R, Elshout PMF, Hendriks AJ, Leuven RSEW, Struijs J, de Zwart D, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Species richness – phosphorus relationships for lakes and streams worldwide. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr 22 (12): 1304-1314. Open access version
- Azevedo LB, Van Zelm R, Hendriks AJ, Bobbink R, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Global assessment of the effects of terrestrial acidification on plant species richness. Environ Pollut 174: 10-15. Open access version
- Cucurachi S, Heijungs R. 2014. Characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment of sound emissions. Science of The Total Environment 468-469, 280-291.
- Cucurachi S, Heijungs R, Ohlau K. 2012. Towards a general framework for including noise impacts in LCA (open access). Int J Life Cycle Assess 17 (4): 471-487.
- Helmes RJK, Huijbregts MAJ, Henderson AD, Jolliet O. 2012. Spatially explicit fate factors of phosphorous emissions to freshwater at the global scale (open access). Int J Life Cycle Assess 17 (5): 646-654.
- Struijs J, De Zwart D, Posthuma L, Leuven RSEW, Huijbregts MAJ. 2011. Field sensitivity distribution of macroinvertebrates for phosphorus in inland waters. Integr Environ Assess Manag 7 (2): 280-286. Open access version
- Van Goethem TMWJ, Azevedo LB, van Zelm R, Hayes F, Ashmore MR, Huijbregts MAJ. 2013. Plant Species Sensitivity Distributions for ozone exposure. Environ Poll 178, 1-6. Open access version
- Van Goethem TMWJ, Preiss P, Azevedo LB, Roos J, Friedrich R, Huijbregts MAJ, van Zelm R. 2013. European characterization factors for damage to natural vegetation by ozone in life cycle impact assessment. Atmos Environ 77: 318-324. Open access version
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Case studies (WP4)
- Antón A, Torrellas M, Raya V, Montero JI. 2014. Modelling the amount of materials to improve inventory datasets of greenhouse infrastructures.Int J Life Cycle Assess 19 (1): 29-41. Open access version
- Antón A, Torrellas M, Nuñez M, Sevigne E, Amores MJ, Muñoz P, Montero JI. 2014. Improvement of Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment studies through Spatial Differentiation and New Impact Categories: Case Study on Greenhouse Tomato Production. Environ Sci Technol 48 (16): 9454-9462.