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LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
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Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Murielle Bochud, David Nicolas De Ridder
Inadequate sodium and potassium dietary intakes are associated with major, yet preventable, health consequences. Local public health interventions can be facilitated and informed by fine-scale geospatial analyses. In this study, we assess the existence of ...
MDPI2021Geographic footprints of life expectancy inequalities in the state of Geneva, Switzerland
Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder, Anaïs Laurence Ladoy
Though Switzerland has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, this global indicator may mask significant disparities at a local level. The present study used a spatial cluster detection approach based on individual death records to investigate ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Global spatial analysis of toxic emissions to freshwater: operationalization for LCA
PurposeThere is increasing interest in using fate and exposure models to spatially differentiate the impacts of chemical emissions. This work aims at exploring the operationalization in life cycle assessment (LCA) of spatially differentiated models for tox ...
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019Geomedicine: opportunities of using spatial information to move toward more precision in public health - spatial approaches and clusters: an introduction for clinicians
Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous
In this presentation we introduce basic knowledge about the use of located health data to detect clusters of disease prevalence. Most often, geographic maps are produced to represent health data. Medical information is transmitted through thematic chorop ...
2017Multi-scale landscape genomic models
Environmental heterogeneity is one of the main actors of biodiversity and species adaptation as it exerts a selective pressure on observable characteristics of living organisms. Consequently, local adaptation favours certain genetic variants and, by doing ...
EPFL2015Water use and quality in life cycle assessment
Pressure on freshwater resources is increasingly covered by methodological developments addressing freshwater use in the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). These developments ultimately lead to the publication of the ISO 14046 standard to define the pri ...
EPFL2014Spatial analysis of toxic emissions in LCA: A sub-continental nested USEtox model with freshwater archetypes
This paper develops continent-specific factors for the USEtox model and analyses the accuracy of different model architectures, spatial scales and archetypes in evaluating toxic impacts, with a focus on freshwater pathways. Inter-continental variation is a ...
Elsevier2014Introducing a multi-criteria indicator to better evaluate impacts of rare earth materials production and consumption in life cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is based on the basic principles of sustainable development. LCA method demonstrated its efficiency in providing a systematic environmental assessment approach of a product or a process. The effectiveness and efficiency of these ...
Elsevier Science Bv2014Evaluation of slope stability with respect to snowpack spatial variability
Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume
The evaluation of avalanche release conditions constitutes a great challenge for risk assessment in mountainous areas. The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope stability and thus on avalanche formation, since it ...
2014Identifying environmentally and economically optimal bioenergy plant sizes and locations: A spatial model of wood-based SNG value chains
Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber, Bernhard Steubing, Luca Pampuri
The optimal size and location of bioenergy plants with regards to environmental and economic performance are assessed with a spatially explicit value chain model of the production of synthetic natural gas (SNG) from wood. It consists of several individual ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014