scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of a Bitumen Anti-root Barrier on a Green Roof in the Mediterranean Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Maiolo ◽  
M. Carini ◽  
G. Capano ◽  
G. Nigro ◽  
P. Piro
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Root Barrier ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals On the life-cycle of ameles spallanzania (Rossi, 1792) (Insecta, Mantodea)

2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Roberto Battiston ◽  
Carlo Galliani
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Continental Area ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Behavioural Strategies

The recent find of an <em>Ameles spallanzania</em> population in a continental area of northern Italy permitted to redraw the northernmost edge of the distribution of this species and to study its life cycle in extreme climatic conditions. A comparison with collecting records of adult specimens from the Mediterranean area has been performed to put in evidence how this species adapts its life-cycle timings in different latitudes: hatching earlier or using nymphs to overwinter in warmer localities or oothecae in colder ones. Overwintering strategies of <em>Ameles spallanzania</em> have been compared with strategies of other genera of mantids that share the same habitat but have different life-cycle strategies and general distribution. Different developing times in mantids seem to be linked to behavioural strategies more than physiological attitudes.

scholarly journals Life Cycle Based Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Agricultural Productions in the Mediterranean Area

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 2915-2935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tamburini ◽  
Paola Pedrini ◽  
Maria Marchetti ◽  
Elisa Fano ◽  
Giuseppe Castaldelli
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Environmental Assessment of Bio-Oil Transformation from Thistle in the Italian Context: An LCA Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-446
Author(s):  
Samuele Tortoioli ◽  
Luisa Paolotti ◽  
Francesco Romagnoli ◽  
Antonio Boggia ◽  
Lucia Rocchi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Polyurethane Foam ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Synthesis Process ◽  
Rigid Polyurethane Foam ◽  
Environmental Benefit ◽  
Umbria Region

AbstractThe present study is a cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Assessment of a hypothetical production process of rigid polyurethane foam obtained from thistle seed oil, grown on the marginal soils of the Umbria region, Italy. Thistle is a particularly rustic crop, suitable for difficult soil and climatic conditions that allow its cultivation in the Mediterranean area on marginal lands and with only the water supply of the autumn-spring rains. Life Cycle Inventory was built on up-to-date inventory for thistle production, while experimental data for polyol and synthesis were obtained from literature, with reference to a pilot scale reactor. Energy recovery of lignocellulosic biomass and sensitivity analysis were also included in the study. Life Cycle Assessment was performed using SimaPro 9.0 and impacts were evaluated with the Impact2000+ method. Results show the overall impact of thistle oil including its final use for the production of polyurethane foam, and underline the important contribution as environmental benefit of the use of biomass leftovers in the agricultural phase. Moreover, results show that the major impacts of the rigid polyurethane foam production process were related to the synthesis of the foam itself. Among the previous phases constituting the process of synthesis of the polyol, the most impactful one was the cultivation; the oil processing stage, on the other hand, had a small global impact. The synthesis of the foam, taken individually, generated a greater impact than the entire synthesis process of the vegetable polyol starting from the cultivation of thistle.

scholarly journals Life cycle assessment of in situ mariculture in the Mediterranean Sea for the production of bioactive compounds from the sponge Sarcotragus spinosulus

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 4356-4368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Pérez-López ◽  
Fabio D. Ledda ◽  
Angela Bisio ◽  
Gumersindo Feijoo ◽  
Erica Perino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Bioactive Compounds ◽  
The Mediterranean
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