Critical environmental concerns in wine production: an integrative review

Christ, Katherine L.; Burritt, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.04.007

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“…The environmental issues of wine industries have been largely unexplored for a long time [5]. In fact, the environmental evaluations of wine production have appeared only in recent years.…”

Section: Lca Application To the Wine Sector: A Practical Point Of Viewmentioning

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“…The causes of this problem could be more than one: the wine producers often ignore the environmental consequences of their activity [5] and, therefore, they have a lack of useful information from an environmental point of view.…”

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“…Such an evaluation is crucial in order to ensure that the wine industry remains not only economically but also environmentally sustainable, both now and in the future [5].…”

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Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

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2018

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool that allows evaluation of the environmental performances of a product, service or process considering the whole life cycle or a part of it. In the wine sector, the application of LCA has grown significantly in recent years and several studies have been carried out about this topic that are similar to other research fields. Nowadays, LCA is an important and acknowledged environmental assessment tool but its application to the wine sector is still in a developing phase. For this reason, the present study proposes a critical review of papers dealing with both the wine sector and LCA. The critical review points out that the main wine hotspots are the viticulture phase (mainly due to fuel, fertilizer and pesticides consumption) and the wine primary packaging production (due to glass bottles). Furthermore, the papers taken into consideration have a wide variability in the system boundaries definition as well as a shortage of availability of original and site-specific inventory data. Such key factors are sensitive aspects that have a huge influence on the results of a study and they are also affected by a wide variability: these issues need further scientific contribution through future studies.

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“…The environmental issues of wine industries have been largely unexplored for a long time [5]. In fact, the environmental evaluations of wine production have appeared only in recent years.…”

Section: Lca Application To the Wine Sector: A Practical Point Of Viewmentioning

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Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

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2018

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“…Aunque la imagen de un viñedo sugiere paisajes verdes idílicos [7], la mayoría de las técnicas, herramientas y equipos que se utilizan en su cultivo, son fuentes de gases de efecto invernadero que aceleran el calentamiento global [8][9]. Del mismo modo, tras bodegas que se sitúan en parajes con encanto y edificios emblemáticos, se acometen procesos de elaboración del vino no siempre respetuosos con el medio ambiente.…”

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Impactos ambientales y medidas de mitigación en el sector vitivinícola español

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García-Casarejos

2018

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Resumen. Existe evidencia de que gran parte del cambio climático es causado por las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GHG), siendo la vitivinicultura una de las actividades responsables. El uso del combustible en la maquinaria agrícola, el empleo de fertilizantes y el consumo de energía en las bodegas, entre otros motivos, contribuyen a estas emisiones. A su vez, el sector del vino es uno de los más vulnerables por su estrecha interacción con las condiciones ambientales, y concretamente en España es especialmente sensible por su situación geográfica y sus características socioeconómicas. Por tanto, el cambio climático constituye uno de los retos ambientales más importantes para este sector, y la puesta en marcha de medidas de mitigación y adaptación se plantea como una posible solución para cumplir con los objetivos de 2020 y favorecer la transición hacia una economía baja en carbono. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer un panorama de los principales impactos ambientales provocados por la vitivinicultura y presentar las medidas de mitigación más comunes que permiten gestionar dichos impactos. Este trabajo pretende servir de guía de buenas prácticas para todas aquellas bodegas que han tomado conciencia de la importancia de llevar a cabo acciones concretas para aliviar el cambio climático. IntroducciónEn la actualidad existe un consenso científico, casi generalizado, en torno a la idea de que nuestro modo de producción y consumo energético está generando una alteración climática global, que provocará, a su vez, serios impactos tanto sobre la tierra como sobre los sistemas socioeconómicos. El impacto de este cambio climático es enorme, con predicciones de falta de agua potable, grandes cambios en las condiciones para la producción de alimentos y un aumento en los índices de mortalidad debido a inundaciones, tormentas, sequías y olas de calor. En definitiva, el cambio climático no es un fenómeno sólo ambiental sino de profundas consecuencias económicas y sociales [1-2].El clima y su variabilidad inciden en muchos ámbitos, pero el sector agrario, en general, y el sector vitivinícola, en particular, presentan una mayor vulnerabilidad ante el cambio climático [3]. El vino necesita de unas determinadas condiciones ambientales, por lo tanto, no es difícil deducir que un aumento de la temperatura o disminución de las lluvias puede traer consecuencias para los viñedos. Temperaturas más frías que las normales dan lugar a una maduración incompleta con alto contenido en ácido, bajo contenido de azúcar y sabores inmaduros; mientras que temperaturas más cálidas de lo normal crean fruta demasiado madura con bajo contenido de ácido y alto contenido de azúcar y de alcohol [4]. La capacidad de adaptación de la vid a estos cambios dependerá de muchos factores, unos intrínsecos, como la variedad de la uva, y otros extrínsecos como las medidas preventivas aplicadas durante el proceso de cultivo, así como, los métodos de producción utilizados para la elaboración del vino [5].Aunque en apariencia el cultivo de la vid parece u...

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“…There were no common definitions that could be considered universally accepted, nor were there consistent indicators that could evaluate individual organisations systemically or comparably. As depicted by Gray: "what may be required, is a more nuanced understanding of what 'sustainability' actually is and how, if at all, it can have any empirical meaning at the level of the organisation" [11] (p. 47).…”

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Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

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Abstract:Indicators have been used in many sustainability assessment methods, however, disagreements over a common definition and scope for the sustainability concept have led to many distinct assessment methods, which are not often directly comparable. Before developing a sustainability assessment, it is essential to: define sustainability and specify the viewpoint of the assessor, the purpose of the assessment, and the context and time frame of the assessment. This article presents a short list of indicators and a method that can be readily adopted by any agricultural business or region to assess sustainability, making any organization, region or crop qualitatively comparable. These indicators were proposed by 83 top-level executives in 14 group interviews conducted using our adapted nominal group technique (ANGT). Executives were sourced from wine-grape growing organisations from New World wine-producing countries that also owned vineyards, and they considered everyday management practices of farms. These indicators, grouped within three categories (economic, environmental, and social) were ranked by their importance. The method defines OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 8179 qualitative indicators that, in the context of distinct wine regions or crops should be quantified to maintain their relevance and usefulness.

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Critical environmental concerns in wine production: an integrative review

Cited by 228 publications

References 63 publications

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Impactos ambientales y medidas de mitigación en el sector vitivinícola español

Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

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