Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint

Caitlin D. Kuempel; Melanie Frazier; Kirsty L. Nash; Nis Sand Jacobsen; David R. Williams; Julia L. Blanchard; Richard S. Cottrell; Peter B. McIntyre; Daniel Moran; Lex Bouwman; Halley E. Froehlich; Jessica A. Gephart; Marc Metian; Johannes Többen; Benjamin S. Halpern

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014

Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint

Caitlin D. Kuempel^*, Melanie Frazier, Kirsty L. Nash, Nis Sand Jacobsen, David R. Williams, Julia L. Blanchard, Richard S. Cottrell, Peter B. McIntyre, Daniel Moran, Lex Bouwman, Halley E. Froehlich, Jessica A. Gephart, Marc Metian, Johannes Többen, Benjamin S. Halpern

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	65-78
Number of pages	14
Journal	One Earth
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014
Publication status	Published - 24 Jul 2020

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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.

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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. 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.

Keywords

cradle-to-gate
cumulative impact
environmental cost
environmental impact
environmental pressure
food production
food security
sustainability

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Kuempel, C. D., Frazier, M., Nash, K. L., Jacobsen, N. S., Williams, D. R., Blanchard, J. L., Cottrell, R. S., McIntyre, P. B., Moran, D., Bouwman, L., Froehlich, H. E., Gephart, J. A., Metian, M., Többen, J., & Halpern, B. S. (2020). Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint. One Earth, 3(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014

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