Integration of ecosystem services and life cycle assessment allows improved accounting of sustainability benefits of nature-based solutions for brownfield redevelopment

Brownfield-related studies in the context of climate change: A comprehensive review and future prospects

“…As climate and environmental concerns progressively become focal points in various research domains, the issues of brownfield restoration under climate change processes have garnered increasing attention from scholars. Green restoration technologies [ [72] , [73] , [74] , [75] ], risk management strategies [ [23] , [76] ], and nature-based solutions (NBS) [ [51] , [77] ], proposed to adapt and mitigate global climate change impacts, have emerged as multifaceted strategies in this research area in recent years. Through an analysis of journal sources, the journal “Science of the Total Environment” from Elsevier stands as a leading publication in this research field ( Table 1 ).…”

Environmental Footprint Neutrality Using Methods and Tools for Natural Capital Accounting in Life Cycle Assessment

“…Such an advanced tool would allow for assessing pressures, impacts, dependencies, and the state of ecosystems in an integrated way, as well as linking products and activities with territories through a spatially explicit approach. An attempt to link NCA and LCA using an ES cascade model, which similarly goes in the direction of assessing pressures, impacts, dependencies, and the state of ecosystems, has been already proposed by Rugani and colleagues [29], validated with an agriculture pilot case by Liu et al [63], and very recently adapted to the soil remediation and brownfield redevelopment context by Alshehri et al [64]. Such a model suggests including in the LCA framework the benefits for human and ecosystem health derived from NC in terms of ES gains (and not just losses).…”