Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of legume LCA studies

Marcela Costa; David R. Chadwick; Sophie Saget; RM Rees; Michael Williams; David Styles

doi:10.1007/s11367-020-01812-x

Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of legume LCA studies

Marcela Costa, David R. Chadwick, Sophie Saget, RM Rees, Michael Williams, David Styles

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Abstract

There is an imperative to accurately assess the environmental sustainability of crop system interventions in the context of food security and climate change. Previous studies have indicated that the incorporation of legumes into cereal rotations could reduce overall environmental burdens from cropping systems. However, most LCA studies focus on individual crops and miss environmental consequences of inter-annual crop sequence and nutrient cycling effects. This review investigates state-of-the-art representation of inter-crop rotation effects within legume LCA studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1942-1956
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Volume	25
Early online date	22 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-020-01812-x
Publication status	Print publication - 1 Oct 2020

Keywords

Allocation
Crop rotations
Functional units
Legumes
Multi-functionality
Nitrogen cycling

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Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of legume LCA studies

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