Climate impact assessment in life cycle assessments of forest products: implications of method choice for results and decision-making

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frida Røyne ◽  
Diego Peñaloza ◽  
Gustav Sandin ◽  
Johanna Berlin ◽  
Magdalena Svanström
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Life Cycle Assessments ◽  
Method Choice ◽  
Climate Impact Assessment

The influence of system boundaries and baseline in climate impact assessment of forest products

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Peñaloza ◽  
Frida Røyne ◽  
Gustav Sandin ◽  
Magdalena Svanström ◽  
Martin Erlandsson
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
System Boundaries ◽  
Climate Impact Assessment

scholarly journals Climate impact assessment and “islandness”

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aideen Maria Foley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Impact Assessment

Purpose Climate data, including historical climate observations and climate model outputs, are often used in climate impact assessments, to explore potential climate futures. However, characteristics often associated with “islandness”, such as smallness, land boundedness and isolation, may mean that climate impact assessment methods applied at broader scales cannot simply be downscaled to island settings. This paper aims to discuss information needs and the limitations of climate models and datasets in the context of small islands and explores how such challenges might be addressed. Design/methodology/approach Reviewing existing literature, this paper explores challenges of islandness in top-down, model-led climate impact assessment and bottom-up, vulnerability-led approaches. It examines how alternative forms of knowledge production can play a role in validating models and in guiding adaptation actions at the local level and highlights decision-making techniques that can support adaptation even when data is uncertain. Findings Small island topography is often too detailed for global or even regional climate models to resolve, but equally, local meteorological station data may be absent or uncertain, particularly in island peripheries. However, rather than viewing the issue as decision-making with big data at the regional/global scale versus with little or no data at the small island scale, a more productive discourse can emerge by conceptualising strategies of decision-making with unconventional types of data. Originality/value This paper provides a critical overview and synthesis of issues relating to climate models, data sets and impact assessment methods as they pertain to islands, which can benefit decision makers and other end-users of climate data in island communities.

scholarly journals Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges: Design, Life Cycle Assessment, Maintenance, and Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Martínez-Muñoz ◽  
J. V. Martí ◽  
V. Yepes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Concrete Bridges ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Design Constraints ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Design Life ◽  
Composite Bridges

Steel-concrete composite bridges are used as an alternative to concrete bridges because of their ability to adapt their geometry to design constraints and the possibility of reusing some of the materials in the structure. In this review, we report the research carried out on the design, behavior, optimization, construction processes, maintenance, impact assessment, and decision-making techniques of composite bridges in order to arrive at a complete design approach. In addition to a qualitative analysis, a multivariate analysis is used to identify knowledge gaps related to bridge design and to detect trends in research. An additional objective is to make visible the gaps in the sustainable design of composite steel-concrete bridges, which allows us to focus on future research studies. The results of this work show how researchers have concentrated their studies on the preliminary design of bridges with a mainly economic approach, while at a global level, concern is directed towards the search for sustainable solutions. It is found that life cycle impact assessment and decision-making strategies allow bridge managers to improve decision-making, particularly at the end of the life cycle of composite bridges.

scholarly journals How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 1353-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Krysanova ◽  
Jamal Zaherpour ◽  
Iulii Didovets ◽  
Simon N. Gosling ◽  
Dieter Gerten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Model Evaluation ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Climate Impact Assessment ◽  
Ensemble Mean ◽  
The Mean

AbstractImportance of evaluation of global hydrological models (gHMs) before doing climate impact assessment was underlined in several studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of six gHMs in simulating observed discharge for a set of 57 large catchments applying common metrics with thresholds for the monthly and seasonal dynamics and summarize them estimating an aggregated index of model performance for each model in each basin. One model showed a good performance, and other five showed a weak or poor performance in most of the basins. In 15 catchments, evaluation results of all models were poor. The model evaluation was supplemented by climate impact assessment for a subset of 12 representative catchments using (1) usual ensemble mean approach and (2) weighted mean approach based on model performance, and the outcomes were compared. The comparison of impacts in terms of mean monthly and mean annual discharges using two approaches has shown that in four basins, differences were negligible or small, and in eight catchments, differences in mean monthly, mean annual discharge or both were moderate to large. The spreads were notably decreased in most cases when the second method was applied. It can be concluded that for improving credibility of projections, the model evaluation and application of the weighted mean approach could be recommended, especially if the mean monthly (seasonal) impacts are of interest, whereas the ensemble mean approach could be applied for projecting the mean annual changes. The calibration of gHMs could improve their performance and, consequently, the credibility of projections.

Incorporating life cycle assessments into building project decision-making: An energy consumption and CO2 emission perspective

Energy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 3022-3029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Hsien Tsai ◽  
Sin-Jin Lin ◽  
Jau-Yang Liu ◽  
Wan-Rung Lin ◽  
Kuen-Chang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Life Cycle Assessments ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Project Decision
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