Life Cycle based Assessment Tools for Water Consumption and Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 13199
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water footprint; life cycle assessment; resource efficiency and availability; life cycle sustainability assessment
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Interests: life cycle assessment; planetary boundaries; sustainable natural resource use; environmental footprinting; global supply chain analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: life cycle assessment; water footprint
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Considering global water stress in many regions around the globe, the analysis and management of freshwater consumption and pollution along the supply chains of products and organizations has gained increasing intention. Therefore, this Special Issue intends to provide an overview of recent methodological developments and case studies covering the broad range of water footprint approaches. This includes traditional volumetric water footprints, ISO 14046 based impact oriented approaches, as well as recent developments in the field of the Product Environmental Footprint and Organizational Life Cycle Assessment. Furthermore, papers are welcome that address the recent efforts of database providers to satisfy the increasing inventory demands of modern water footprint methods concerning spatially and temporally explicit water flows. Next to identifying hotspots in global supply chains by means of water footprinting, concrete local actions are needed to mitigate water stress. Therefore, this Special Issue also invites papers addressing the management and stewardship of water at the basin level.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner
Dr. Masaharu Motoshita
Dr. Markus Berger
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water footprint
- life cycle assessment
- ISO 14046
- case studies
- inventory database
- water stewardship