@article{9133bb49fca3426298dd8232c51d2e61,
title = "Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint",
abstract = "Producing food exerts pressures on the environment. Understanding the location and magnitude of food production is key to reducing the impacts of these pressures on nature and people. In this Perspective, Kuempel et al. outline an approach for integrating life cycle assessment and cumulative impact mapping data and methodologies to map the cumulative environmental pressure of food systems. The approach enables quantification of current and potential future environmental pressures, which are needed to reduce the net impact of feeding humanity.",
keywords = "cradle-to-gate, cumulative impact, environmental cost, environmental impact, environmental pressure, food production, food security, sustainability",
author = "Kuempel, {Caitlin D.} and Melanie Frazier and Nash, {Kirsty L.} and Jacobsen, {Nis Sand} and Williams, {David R.} and Blanchard, {Julia L.} and Cottrell, {Richard S.} and McIntyre, {Peter B.} and Daniel Moran and Lex Bouwman and Froehlich, {Halley E.} and Gephart, {Jessica A.} and Marc Metian and Johannes T{\"o}bben and Halpern, {Benjamin S.}",
note = "Funding Information: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara provided invaluable infrastructural support for this work. The project was the result of a working group entitled Environmental impact and sustainability of global food systems and funded by the Zegar Family Foundation (SB180095). We thank Dr. Joseph Poore for his help in utilizing his LCA database to develop our hypothetical example. On behalf of M.M. the IAEA is grateful to the Government of the Principality of Monaco for the support provided to its Environment Laboratories. The authors declare no competing financial interests. H.E.F. is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Aquaculture Stewardship Council. Funding Information: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara provided invaluable infrastructural support for this work. The project was the result of a working group entitled Environmental impact and sustainability of global food systems and funded by the Zegar Family Foundation ( SB180095 ). We thank Dr. Joseph Poore for his help in utilizing his LCA database to develop our hypothetical example. On behalf of M.M., the IAEA is grateful to the Government of the Principality of Monaco for the support provided to its Environment Laboratories. The authors declare no competing financial interests. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
pages = "65--78",
journal = "One Earth",
issn = "2590-3330",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "1",
}