LCA Water Footprint AWARE characterization factor based on local specific conditions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/543/" target="_blank" >https://ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/543/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p13" target="_blank" >10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

LCA Water Footprint AWARE characterization factor based on local specific conditions

Original language description

A Water Footprint based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is a modern approach to the assessment of impacts of water use on the environment. The Available WAter REmaining (AWARE) method is the recommended characterization method by the WULCA Working group to perform a water consumption impact assessment in LCA. The published values of AWARE characterization factor were computed using the hydrological model at the country and main river basin levels only. These “average” values can be imported into the LCA software and used for LCA studies. The scale of available AWARE data could be insufficient for studies at a local level due to heterogeneous conditions in various countries or large river basins. In our study, we use runoff data from the Europe region available in the Global Runoff Data Centre for computation of “regionalized” AWARE values and compare them with AWARE values at the country and river basin levels. The analysis of computed values indicates that the variance of AWARE values can be very large in some countries and river basins.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1520322" target="_blank" >QJ1520322: Procedures for compilation and verification of water footprint according to international standards</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Sustainable Development

ISSN

2239-5938

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

13-20

UT code for WoS article

000412137100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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