Linking national food production to global supply chain impacts for the energy-climate challenge: the cases of the EU-27 and Turkey

Küçükvar, Murat; Samadi, Hamidreza

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.117

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“…Obviously, with a globalized economy, while consumption of products takes place in some parts of the world, manufacturing and consumption occur in different parts of the world. However, the scope of the traditional LSCA studies is predominantly at product level and does not address macro-level impacts and cannot capture a majority of upstream impacts due to narrowly defined system boundaries (the cutoff criteria) [51,84,85]. To promote sustainable consumption and production policies and to understand the social, economic and environmental effects of consumption, there is a dire need to capture whole life cycle sustainability impacts across international supply chains.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, some studies include carbon, water, and ecological land footprints of households [107,108], consumption and production [85,109], international trade [110], transportation [111], and nations [112,113]. Although these MRIO databases are extensively utilized for analyzing the regional and global environmental impacts, the integration of MRIO analysis with LCA is often limited.…”

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Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

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Abstract:Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (e.g., goods, and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely applied method to track these environmental impacts and support policies, it has certain limitations and an isolated way of evaluating the environmental impacts with no consideration of social and economic impacts and mechanisms. To overcome the limits of current LCA, three mechanisms have been proposed in the literature: (1) broadening the indicators by including social and economic indicators in addition to the environmental impacts; (2) broadening the scope of analysis from product-level assessment to national and global levels; (3) deepening the assessment by inclusion of more mechanisms to account for interrelations among the system elements, uncertainty analysis, stakeholder involvement, etc. With these developments, LCA has been evolving into a new framework called Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Practical application of LCSA requires integration of various methods, tools, and disciplines. In this study, a comprehensive literature review is conducted to investigate recent developments, current challenges, and future perspectives in the LCSA literature. According to the review, a high number (40%) of LCSA studies are from the environmental science discipline, while contributions from other disciplines such as economics (3%) and social sciences (9%) are very low. On broadening the scope of analysis, 58% of the studies are product-level works, while 37% quantified the impacts at national level and achieved an economy-wide analysis, and only 5% of the studies were able to quantify the global impacts of products using LCSA framework. Furthermore, current applications of LCSA have not considered the rebound effects, feedback mechanisms, and interrelations of the system of interest sufficiently. To address these challenges, we present a complete discussion about the overarching role of systems thinking to bring tools, methods and disciplines together, and provide practical examples from the earlier studies that have employed various system-based methods. We discuss the importance of integrated system-based methods for advancement of LCSA framework in the following directions: (1) regional and global level LCSA models using multi-region input-output analysis that is capable of quantitatively capturing macro-level social, environmental, and economic impacts; (2) dealing with uncertainties in LCSA during multi-criteria decision-making process and expert judgments in weighting of LCSA indicators; and (3) integration of system dynamics modeling to reveal complex interconnections, dependencies, and causal relationships between sustainability indicators.

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Section: Broadening the Object Of Analysis: Revealing Macro-level Impmentioning

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Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

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“…As the EIO-LCA model cover entire economy, it is capable to capture the supply chain related activities including extraction of raw materials, processing, and transportation [72,73]. Supply-chain linked analysis provide a more comprehensive assessment and accounting the impacts associated with upstream activities [74,75]. Input-output based models provides this strength and provide a comprehensive assessment approach [76][77][78].…”

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Regional Well-to-Wheel Carbon, Energy, and Water Footprint Analysis of Electric Vehicles

Onat¹,

Küçükvar²,

Tatari³

2019

Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Transportation and the Environment Conference (APTE 2018)

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Adoption of alternative vehicle technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have the potential of reducing some of the environmental impacts and reducing oil-dependency of the U.S transportation sector. However, this potential depends on the regional driving patterns and the source of the electricity generation to power PHEVs and EVs. In this study, state-specific electricity generation mix scenarios and driving patterns in Alabama, Florida, and Hawaii are considered to calculate regional impacts associated with alternative vehicle technologies (HEVs, PHEVs, EVs) compared to internal combustion vehicles (ICVs). Three electricity generation mix scenario are evaluated, which are namely; average electricity generation mix, marginal electricity generation mix, and 100% solar electricity generation mix. Well-to-wheel carbon, energy, and water footprint of these vehicles are quantified for each state and potential environmental reductions are evaluated. According to comparative evaluation for the proposed scenarios, shifting to low carbon, energy, and water intensive electricity generation mix by utilization of solar energy is crucial to achieve environmental friendly transportation in the U.S.

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“…In recent years, the table grapes supply chain has been developed rapidly with the swift increase in the table grapes production and consumer demand [2][3][4]. The massive energy consumption has been also increased, owing to the energy-intensive characteristic of the table grapes supply chain [5][6][7]. However, the energy consumption in the supply chain, for example, the electricity, the petroleum and the natural gas, are part of the non-renewable energy resources [8][9][10].…”

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Energy Conservation Potential Assessment Method for Table Grapes Supply Chain

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Zhang

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Abstract:Energy consumption is one of the most crucial issues in the table grapes supply chain. However, the potential for energy conservation assessment is still limited because of the complexity of the process. The aim of this paper is to propose an energy conservation potential assessment method in order to increase energy consumption transparency and help managers take appropriate energy conservation measures to reduce the energy consumption in the table grapes supply chain. The conservation potential assessment in three kinds of the supply chain modes (the normal chain, the cold insulation chain and the cold chain), were realized by integrating the actual energy consumption investigated with the unified energy consumption per unit energy factor that represents the energy consumption throughout the entire product lifecycle. According to the comprehensive analysis of the energy consumption compared with the energy conservation potential in actual supply chain of table grapes, the proposed energy conservation potential assessment method could provide a unified method for evaluating the energy conservation potential in different supply chain mode of table grapes. The energy conversation potential in cold insulation chain, which was about 0.985, was the highest and that in cold chain, which was about 0.935, was the smallest. However, the cold chain was still the optimal supply chain for the table grapes because of the characteristics of the longest storage shelf life and the lowest quality decay, and the cold chain energy consumption would be further reduced by adopting the more advanced refrigeration and preservation technologies. The proposed energy conservation potential assessment method could be extended for other supply chain applications to evaluate their own energy conservation potential, and thus, reduce their energy consumption.

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Linking national food production to global supply chain impacts for the energy-climate challenge: the cases of the EU-27 and Turkey

Cited by 56 publications

References 71 publications

Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

Regional Well-to-Wheel Carbon, Energy, and Water Footprint Analysis of Electric Vehicles

Energy Conservation Potential Assessment Method for Table Grapes Supply Chain

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