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Philip Peck

Philip Peck

Senior lecturer

Philip Peck

Climate regulation, energy provisioning and water purification : Quantifying ecosystem service delivery of bioenergy willow grown on riparian buffer zones using life cycle assessment

Author

  • David Styles
  • Pål Börjesson
  • Tina DHertefeldt
  • Klaus Birkhofer
  • Jens Dauber
  • Paul Adams
  • Sopan Patil
  • Tim Pagella
  • Lars B. Pettersson
  • Philip Peck
  • Céline Vaneeckhaute
  • Håkan Rosenqvist
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Summary, in English

Whilst life cycle assessment (LCA) boundaries are expanded to account for negative indirect consequences of bioenergy such as indirect land use change (ILUC), ecosystem services such as water purification sometimes delivered by perennial bioenergy crops are typically neglected in LCA studies. Consequential LCA was applied to evaluate the significance of nutrient interception and retention on the environmental balance of unfertilised energy willow planted on 50-m riparian buffer strips and drainage filtration zones in the Skåne region of Sweden. Excluding possible ILUC effects and considering oil heat substitution, strategically planted filter willow can achieve net global warming potential (GWP) and eutrophication potential (EP) savings of up to 11.9 Mg CO2e and 47 kg PO4e ha−1 year−1, respectively, compared with a GWP saving of 14.8 Mg CO2e ha−1 year−1 and an EP increase of 7 kg PO4e ha−1 year−1 for fertilised willow. Planting willow on appropriate buffer and filter zones throughout Skåne could avoid 626 Mg year−1 PO4e nutrient loading to waters.

Department/s

  • Environmental and Energy Systems Studies
  • Biodiversity
  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Soil Ecology
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Publishing year

2016-12-01

Language

English

Pages

872-884

Publication/Series

Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment

Volume

45

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Energy Systems

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Bioenergy
  • Environment
  • Eutrophication
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • LCA

Status

Published

Research group

  • Soil Ecology
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0044-7447