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

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	Author(s)	Gerhard Brankatschk
	Year	2019
	Pages	209
	Language	English
	Format	PDF
	Size	4.5 MB
	Publisher	Springer Vieweg
	ISBN	365823587X, 978-3658235871

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 Inventory methodologies, which conform to ISO-standards on LCA. The new methods help to assess temporal, spatial, and multifunctional complexity of agricultural systems and to improve the reliability of life cycle based sustainability assessments of agriculture.