Biodiversity Impact Assessment Considering Land Use Intensities and Fragmentation.

ABSTRACT: Land use is a major threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Life cycle assessment is a tool that can assess such threats and thereby support environmental decision-making. Within the Global Guidance for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (GLAM) project, the Life Cycle Initiative hosted by UN Environment aims to create a life cycle impact assessment method across multiple impact categories, including land use impacts on ecosystem quality represented by regional and global species richness. A working group of the GLAM project focused on such land use impacts and developed new characterization factors to combine the strengths of two separate recent advancements in the field: the consideration of land use intensities and land fragmentation. The data sets to parametrize the underlying model are also upda

SUBMITTER: Scherer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702493 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature