Modeling Crop Rotations and Co-Products in Agricultural Life Cycle Assessments

• Main Author: Brankatschk, Gerhard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Vieweg, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Environmental management.; Climate change.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Management.; Climate Change.

Gerhard Brankatschk provides solutions for methodological limitations of agricultural Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). The author solves challenges of attributing multifunctionality (co-products) and temporal system boundaries (crop rotations) of agricultural systems by establishing two new Life Cycle...

Table of Contents:

• Challenges in LCA for Agricultural Systems
• Application of the Cereal Unit in a New Allocation Procedure for Agricultural LCAs
• Modeling Crop Rotation in Agricultural LCAs
• Crop Rotations and Crop Residues are Relevant Parameters for Agricultural Carbon Footprints
• International Initiatives on Global Challenges for Agriculture.