Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats analysis of carbon footprint indicator and derived recommendations

ABSTRACT: Demand for a low carbon footprint may be a key factor in stimulating innovation, while prompting politicians to promote sustainable consumption. However, the variety of methodological approaches and techniques used to quantify life-cycle emissions prevents their successful and widespread implementation. This study aims to offer recommendations for researchers, policymakers and practitioners seeking to achieve a more consistent approach for carbon footprint analysis. This assessment is made on the basis of a comprehensive Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats or SWOT Analysis of the carbon footprint indicator. It is carried out bringing together the collective experience from the Carbonfeel Project following the Delphi technique principles. The results include the detailed SWOT Analysis from which specific recommendations to cope with the threats and the weaknesses are identified. In particular, results highlight the importance of the integrated approach to combine organizational and product carbon footprinting in order to achieve a more standardized and consistent approach. These recommendations can therefore serve to pave the way for the development of new, specific and highly-detailed guidelines

Carbon dioxide reduction in the building life cycle: a critical review

The construction industry is known to be a major contributor to environmental pressures due to its high energy consumption and carbon dioxide generation. The growing amount of carbon dioxide emissions over buildings’ life cycles has prompted academics and professionals to initiate various studies relating to this problem. Researchers have been exploring carbon dioxide reduction methods for each phase of the building life cycle – from planning and design, materials production, materials distribution and construction process, maintenance and renovation, deconstruction and disposal, to the material reuse and recycle phase. This paper aims to present the state of the art in carbon dioxide reduction studies relating to the construction industry. Studies of carbon dioxide reduction throughout the building life cycle are reviewed and discussed, including those relating to green building design, innovative low carbon dioxide materials, green construction methods, energy efficiency schemes, life cycle energy analysis, construction waste management, reuse and recycling of materials and the cradle-to-cradle concept. The review provides building practitioners and researchers with a better understanding of carbon dioxide reduction potential and approaches worldwide. Opportunities for carbon dioxide reduction can thereby be maximised over the building life cycle by creating environmentally benign designs and using low carbon dioxide materials

Physical and biogeochemical measurements of belowground biomass and carbon content from Scottish saltmarshes 2021

The dataset comprises of physical and biogeochemical measurements of belowground (root) biomass from across four Scottish saltmarshes. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in Scotland, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The data provide a quantitative measure of belowground (root) biomass, organic carbon content and belowground (root) carbon. Samples were collected using a wide gauge gouge corer. The samples were processed to determine belowground (root) biomass, the organic carbon was quantified through elemental analysis and these two data sets were combined to calculate the belowground (root) carbon content. The data were collected to help create a detailed picture of saltmarsh carbon storage in surficial soils across Scotland. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/

Model runs - Post-fire regeneration traits of understorey shrub species modulate successional responses to high severity fire in Mediterranean pine forests

This data set contains the results of the model runs that gave origin to the paper "Post-fire regeneration traits of understorey shrub species modulate successional responses to high severity fire in Mediterranean pine forests" published in the journal Ecosystems

Model runs - Post-fire regeneration traits of understorey shrub species modulate successional responses to high severity fire in Mediterranean pine forests

This data set contains the results of the model runs that gave origin to the paper "Post-fire regeneration traits of understorey shrub species modulate successional responses to high severity fire in Mediterranean pine forests" published in the journal Ecosystems

Supplementary material 1 from: Barton DN, Immerzeel B, Brander L, Grêt-Regamey A, Kato Huerta J, Kretsch C, Le Clech S, Rendón P, Seguin J, Arámbula Coyote MV, Babí Almenar J, Balzan M, Burkhard B, Carvalho-Santos C, Geneletti D, Guisado Goñi V, Giannakis E, Liekens I, Lupa P, Ryan G, Stępniewska MK, Tanács E, van 't Hoff V, Walther FE, Zoumides C, Zwierzchowska I, Grammatikopoulou I, Villosalda M (2024) Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europe. One Ecosystem 9: e120449. https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.9.e120449

Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europ

Code and data: Temporal variability declines with increasing trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems

Code and data to reproduce the results in Siqueira et al. (submitted) published as a Preprint (https://ecoevorxiv.org/mpf5x) The full set of results, including those made available as supplementary material, can be reproduced by running five scripts in the R_codes folder following this sequence: 00_Renv_help_reproduc.R 01_Dataprep_stability_metrics.R 02_SEM_analyses.R 03_Stab_figs.R 04_Stab_supp_m.R 05_Sensit_analysis.R and using the data available in the Input_data folder. This is a collaborative effort and not all authors are allowed to share their raw data. For example, one data set (LEPAS) was not made available due to data sharing policies of The Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODOW). The orginal raw data include the abundance (individual counts, biomass, coverage area) of a given taxon, at a given site, in a given year. See details here https://ecoevorxiv.org/mpf5x Thus, here, instead of starting the analyses with raw data, we start with data that has been generated with the code: 01_Dataprep_stability_metrics.R These data include variability and synchrony components estimated using the methods described in Wang et al. (2019 Ecography; doi/10.1111/ecog.04290), diversity metrics (alpha and gamma diversity), and some variables describing the data