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Title: | Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle Assessment | Authors: | Alejandre, Elizabeth M Scherer, Laura Guinée, Jeroen B Aizen, Marcelo A Albrecht, Matthias Balzan, Mario V. Bartomeus, Ignasi Bevk, Danilo Burkle, Laura A Clough, Yann Cole, Lorna J. Delphia, Casey M Dicks, Lynn V Garratt, Michael P D Kleijn, David Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó Mandelik, Yael Paxton, Robert J Petanidou, Theodora Potts, Simon Geoffrey Sárospataki, Miklós Schulp, Catharina J E Stavrinides, Menelaos Stein, Katharina Stout, Jane Catherine Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka Varnava, Androulla I. Woodcock, Ben A Van Bodegom, Peter M |
Major Field of Science: | Agricultural Sciences | Field Category: | Agricultural Biotechnology | Keywords: | Delphi expert elicitation;agriculture;ecosystem service;impact assessment;pollinator abundance | Issue Date: | 28-Feb-2023 | Source: | Environmental Science and Technology, 2023, vol. 57, iss. 8, pp. 3445 - 3454 | Volume: | 57 | Issue: | 8 | Start page: | 3445 | End page: | 3454 | Abstract: | While wild pollinators play a key role in global food production, their assessment is currently missing from the most commonly used environmental impact assessment method, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This is mainly due to constraints in data availability and compatibility with LCA inventories. To target this gap, relative pollinator abundance estimates were obtained with the use of a Delphi assessment, during which 25 experts, covering 16 nationalities and 45 countries of expertise, provided scores for low, typical, and high expected abundance associated with 24 land use categories. Based on these estimates, this study presents a set of globally generic characterization factors (CFs) that allows translating land use into relative impacts to wild pollinator abundance. The associated uncertainty of the CFs is presented along with an illustrative case to demonstrate the applicability in LCA studies. The CFs based on estimates that reached consensus during the Delphi assessment are recommended as readily applicable and allow key differences among land use types to be distinguished. The resulting CFs are proposed as the first step for incorporating pollinator impacts in LCA studies, exemplifying the use of expert elicitation methods as a useful tool to fill data gaps that constrain the characterization of key environmental impacts. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/29751 | ISSN: | 0013936X | DOI: | 10.1021/acs.est.2c05311 | Rights: | © The Authors Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Type: | Article | Affiliation : | Leiden University Delft University of Technology Universidad Nacional del Comahue Agroecology and Environment Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology Estación Biológica de Doñana National Institute of Biology Montana State University Lund University JF Niven Building Montana State University University of Cambridge University of East Anglia Wageningen University & Research Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group Hebrew University of Jerusalem Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research University of Aegean Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Cyprus University of Technology University of Rostock College Green Jagiellonian University UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
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