Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use |
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| Authors: | Roland Geyer David M. Stoms Jan P. Lindner Frank W. Davis Bastian Wittstock |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,University of California,Santa Barbara,USA;2.Abteilung Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung, Lehrstuhl für Bauphysik,Universit?t Stuttgart,Leinfelden-Echterdingen,Germany |
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| Abstract: | Purpose Geospatial details about land use are necessary to assess its potential impacts on biodiversity. Geographic information systems (GIS) are adept at modeling land use in a spatially explicit manner, while life cycle assessment (LCA) does not conventionally utilize geospatial information. This study presents a proof-of-concept approach for coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use and applies it to a case study of ethanol production from agricultural crops in California. |
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