Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 262-272

  Arbault, Damien ^a,b,c,d   Rivière, Mylène ^a,b,c,d   Rugani, Benedetto ^a   Benetto, Enrico ^a   Tiruta Barna, Ligia ^b,c,d  

^a Public Research Centre Henri Tudor Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies   (Luxembourg)

^b INSA   (France)

^c UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic modeling; Ecosystem Services (ES); Global Unified Metamodel of the Biosphere (GUMBO); Integrated modeling; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERICS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INTEGRATED MODELING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; META MODEL;

LIFE CYCLE;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL UNIFIED METAMODEL OF THE BIOSPHERE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELFARE;

DYNAMIC MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (ES); GLOBAL UNIFIED METAMODEL OF THE BIOSPHERE (GUMBO); INTEGRATED MODELING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT (LCIA);

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84888776889     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.099     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Ainsworth C.H., Varkey D.A., Pitcher T.J. Ecosystem simulations supporting ecosystem-based fisheries management in the Coral Triangle, Indonesia. Ecol Model 2008, 214:361-374.
2. Aitkenhead M.J., Albanito F., Jones M.B., Black H.I.J. Development and testing of a process-based model (MOSES) for simulating soil processes, functions and ecosystem services. Ecol Model 2011, 222:3795-3810.
3. Andrade D.C., Romeiro A.R., Boumans R., Sobrinho R.P., TÔsto S.G. New methodological perspectives on the valuation of ecosystem services: toward a dynamic-integrated valuation approach. International Society for Ecological Economics Conference: advancing sustainability in time of crisis 2010, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, [22-25 August].
4. Arbault D., Rugani B., Marvuglia A., Tiruta-Barna L., Benetto E. Accounting for the energy value of life cycle inventory systems: insights from recent methodological advances. J. Environ. Account. Manage. 2013, 1:103-117.
5. Bagstad K.J., Villa F., Johnson G.W., Voigt B. ARIES - artificial intelligence for ecosystem services: a guide to models and data, version 1.0. ARIES report series n.1 2011, [Available at: http://www.ariesonline.org/docs/ARIESModelingGuide1.0.pdf].
6. Barbier E.B. Valuing ecosystem services as productive inputs. Econ. Policy 2007, 22:177-229.
7. Boumans, R. Personal communication. 2012.
8. Boumans R., Costanza R. The multiscale integrated Earth Systems model (MIMES): the dynamics, modeling and valuation of ecosystem services. Issues in global water system research-report on the joint TIAS-GWSP workshop held at the University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, USA, 10 and 11 May 2007 2007, 104-107.
9. Boumans R., Costanza R., Farley J., Wilson M.A., Portela R., Rotmans J., et al. Modeling the dynamics of the integrated earth system and the value of global ecosystem services using the GUMBO model. Ecol Econ 2002, 41:529-560.
10. Brandão M., Milà i Canals L. Global characterisation factors to assess land use impacts on biotic production. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2013, 18:1243-1252.
11. Burkhard B., Kroll F., Nedkov S., Müller F. Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets. Ecol Indic 2012, 21:17-29.
12. Cardinale B.J., Duffy J.E., Gonzalez A., Hooper D.U., Perrings C., Venail P., et al. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 2012, 486(7401):59-67.
13. Costanza R., d' Arge R., Groot R.de, Farber S., Grasso M., Hannon B., et al. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 1997, 387:253-260.
14. Crossman N.D., Burkhard B., Nedkov S., Willemen L., Petz K., Palomo I., et al. A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services. Ecosyst. Serv. 2013, 4:4-14.
15. Curran M., de Baan L., de Schryver A.M., van Zelm R., Hellweg S., Koellner T., et al. Toward meaningful end points of biodiversity in life cycle assessment. Environ Sci Technol 2011, 45:70-79.
16. Nature's services: societal dependence on natural ecosystems 1997, 1-10. Island Press, Washington DC. G.C. Daily (Ed.).
17. de Baan L., Alkemade R., Koellner T. Land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: a global approach. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2013, 18:1216-1230.
18. de Groot R.S., Wilson M.A., Boumans R. A typology for the classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services. Ecol Econ 2002, 41:393-408.
19. de Groot R.S., Alkemade R., Braat L., Hein L., Willemen L. Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. Ecol Complex 2010, 7(3):260-272.
20. de Groot R.S., Brander L., van der Ploeg S., Costanza R., Bernard F., Braat L., et al. Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units. Ecosys. Serv. 2012, 1:50-61.
21. de Schryver A.M., Goedkoop M.J., Leuven R.S.E.W., Huijbregts M.A.J. Uncertainties in the application of the species area relationship for characterisation factors of land occupation in life cycle assessment. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2010, 15(7):682-691.
22. de Souza D.M., Flynn D.F.B., DeClerck F., Rosenbaum R.K., Lisboa H.de M., Koellner T. Land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: proposal of characterization factors based on functional diversity. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2013, 18:1231-1242.
23. Diamond J.M. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed 2006, Penguin Group, USA.
24. Douglas P.H. The Cobb-Douglas production function once again: its history, its testing, and some new empirical values. J Polit Econ 1976, 84:903-915.
25. Ecoinvent Ecoinvent database v2.2 2010, Swiss Centre for Life-Cycle Inventories, Dübendorf Switzerland, [Available at: http://www.ecoinvent.org/database/].
26. European Commission International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) handbook-general guide for life cycle assessment-detailed guidance. European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Institute for Environment and Sustainability 2010, EUR 24708 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg. 1st ed.
27. European Commission International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) handbook-framework and requirements for life cycle impact assessment models and indicators. European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Institute for Environment and Sustainability 2010, EUR 24708 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg. 1st ed.
28. Farber S., Costanza R., Childers D.L., Erickson J., Gross K., Grove M., et al. Linking ecology and economics for ecosystem management. Bioscience 2006, 56(2):121-133.
29. Folke C. How resilient are ecosystems to global environmental change?. Sustain Sci 2010, 5:151-154.
30. Folke C., Jansson Å., Rockström J., Olsson P., Carpenter S.R., Chapin F.S., et al. Reconnecting to the biosphere. Ambio 2011, 40:719-738.
31. Georgescu-Roegen N. The entropy law and the economic process 1971, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
32. Goedkoop M., Heijungs R., Huijbregts M., de Schryver A., Struijs J., van Zelm R. ReCiPe 2008 a life cycle impact assessment method which comprises harmonised category indicators at the midpoint and the endpoint level. VROM-Ruimte en Milieu, Ministerie van Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieubeheer 2009, [www.lcia-recipe.net].
33. Gómez-Baggethun E., de Groot R., Lomas P.L., Montes C. The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: from early notions to markets and payment schemes. Ecol Econ 2010, 69:1209-1218.
34. Haines-Young R., Potschin M., Kienast F. Indicators of ecosystem service potential at European scales: mapping marginal changes and trade-offs. Ecol Indic 2012, 21:39-53.
35. Halfon E., Schito N., Ulanowicz R.E. Energy flow through the Lake Ontario food web: conceptual model and an attempt at mass balance. Ecol Model 1996, 86:1-36.
36. Halog A., Manik Y. Advancing integrated systems modelling framework for life cycle sustainability assessment. Sustainability 2011, 3:469-499.
37. IMPACT World+ Available at:. http://www.impactworldplus.org/en/.
38. ISO 14044: environmental management-life cycle assessment-requirements and guidelines 2006, International Organization for Standardization.
39. Ito A., Oikawa T. A simulation model of the carbon cycle in land ecosystems (Sim-CYCLE): a description based on dry-matter production theory and plot-scale validation. Ecol Model 2002, 151:143-176.
40. Jiang H., Peng C., Apps M.J., Zhang Y., Woodard P.M., Wang Z. Modelling the net primary productivity of temperate forest ecosystems in China with a GAP model. Ecol Model 1999, 122:225-238.
41. Johnston J.M., McGarvey D.J., Barber M.C., Laniak G., Babendreier J., Parmar R., et al. An integrated modeling framework for performing environmental assessments: application to ecosystem services in the Albemarle-Pamlico basins (NC and VA, USA). Ecol Model 2011, 222:2471-2484.
42. Jolliet O., Brent A., Goedkoop M., Itsubo N., Mueller-Wenk R., Peña C., et al. Final report of the LCIA Definition study. Life Cycle Impact Assessment Programme of the Life Cycle Initiative 2003, [https://sph.umich.edu/riskcenter/jolliet/Jolliet%202003%20LCIA_defStudy.pdf].
43. Koellner T., de Baan L., Beck T., Brandão M., Civit B., Goedkoop M., et al. Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2013, 18:1203-1215.
44. Lenzen M., Kanemoto K., Moran D., Geschke A. Mapping the structure of the world economy. Environ Sci Technol 2012, 46:8374-8381.
45. Levasseur A., Lesage P., Margni M., Deschênes L., Samson R. Considering time in LCA: dynamic LCA and its application to global warming impact assessments. Environ Sci Technol 2010, 44:3169-3174.
46. Maes J., Hauck J., Paracchini M.L., Ratamäki O., Hutchins M., Termansen M., et al. Mainstreaming ecosystem services into EU policy. Curr Opin Environ Sustain 2013, 5(1):128-134.
47. Margni M., Gloria T., Bare J., Seppälä J., Steen B., Struijs J., et al. Guidance on how to move from current practice to recommended practice in life cycle impact assessment 2008, UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, Paris, [Available at: http://acv.ibict.br/publicacoes/artigos-1/Guidance%20to%20LCA.pdf].
48. Markandya A., Pedroso-Galinato S. How substitutable is natural capital?. Environ Resour Econ 2007, 37:297-312.
49. Marvuglia A., Benetto E., Rios G., Rugani B. SCALE: software for calculating energy based on life cycle inventories. Ecol Model 2013, 248:80-91.
50. MEA Millennium ecosystem assessment, ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment 2005, World Resources Institute, Washington DC.
51. Müller-Wenk R., Brandão M. Climatic impact of land use in LCA-carbon transfers between vegetation/soil and air. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2010, 15:172-182.
52. Odum H.T. Environmental accounting, energy and decision making 1996, John Wiley, NY, [370 pp.].
53. Ooba M., Wang Q., Murakami S., Kohata K. Biogeochemical model (BGC-ES) and its basin-level application for evaluating ecosystem services under forest management practices. Ecol Model 2010, 221:1979-1994.
54. Portela R., Rademacher I. A dynamic model of patterns of deforestation and their effect on the ability of the Brazilian Amazonia to provide ecosystem services. Ecol Model 2001, 143:115-146.
55. Raugei M., Rugani B., Benetto E., Ingwersen W.W. Integrating energy into LCA: potential added value and lingering obstacles. Ecol Model 2012, [in press]. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.11.025.
56. Richmond A., Kaufmann R.K., Myneni R.B. Valuing ecosystem services: a shadow price for net primary production. Ecol Econ 2007, 64:454-462.
57. Rugani B., Benetto E., Arbault D., Tiruta-Barna L. Energy-based midpoint valuation of ecosystem goods and services for life cycle impact assessment. Rev. Metall.-Paris 2013, 110:249-264.
58. Saad R., Margni M., Koellner T., Wittstock B., Deschênes L. Assessment of land use impacts on soil ecological functions: development of spatially differentiated characterization factors within a Canadian context. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2011, 1-14.
59. Saad R., Koellner T., Margni M. Land use impacts on freshwater regulation, erosion regulation, and water purification: a spatial approach for a global scale level. Int J Life Cycle Assess 2013, 18:1253-1264.
60. Shang Z., He H.S., Xi W., Shifley S.R., Palik B.J. Integrating LANDIS model and a multi-criteria decision-making approach to evaluate cumulative effects of forest management in the Missouri Ozarks, USA. Ecol Model 2012, 229:50-63.
61. Shanin V.N., Komarov A.S., Mikhailov A.V., Bykhovets S.S. Modelling carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forest ecosystems of Central Russia under different climate change scenarios and forest management regimes. Ecol Model 2011, 222:2262-2275.
62. Solow R.M. Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources. Rev Econ Stud 1974, 41:29-45.
63. Steffen W., Crutzen P.J., McNeill J.R. The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature. Ambio 2007, 36:614-621.
64. Stiglitz J. Growth with exhaustible natural resources: efficient and optimal growth paths. Rev Econ Stud 1974, 41:123-137.
65. Tallis H.T., Ricketts T., Guerry A.D., Wood S.A., Sharp R., Nelson E., et al. InVEST 2.5.6 user's guide 2013, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford, [Available at: http://ncp-dev.stanford.edu/~dataportal/invest-releases/documentation/current_release/].
66. Taner M.Ü., Carleton J.N., Wellman M. Integrated model projections of climate change impacts on a North American lake. Ecol Model 2011, 222:3380-3393.
67. TEEB The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: ecological and economic foundations 2010, Earthscan, London and Washington. P. Kumar (Ed.).
68. Tukker A., de Koning A., Wood R., Hawkins T., Lutter S., Acosta J., et al. Exiopol-development and illustrative analyses of a detailed global Mr Ee Sut/Iot. ESRES 2013, 25:50-70.
69. van Zelm R., Schipper A.M., Rombouts M., Snepvangers J., Huijbregts M.A.J. Implementing groundwater extraction in life cycle impact assessment: characterization factors based on plant species richness for the Netherlands. Environ Sci Technol 2011, 45:629-635.
70. Waage S., Stewart E., Armstrong K. Measuring corporate impact on ecosystems: a comprehensive review of new tools. BSR, synthesis report 2008, [Available at: http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_EMI_Tools_Application.pdf].
71. Zhang Y., Singh S., Bakshi B.R. Accounting for ecosystem services in life cycle assessment, part I: a critical review. Environ Sci Technol 2010, 44:2232-2242.