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Environmental product declarations and the carbon footprint of buildings
Santos, Ana Karolina; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Ferreira, Victor MiguelRevista Arquitectura Lusíada. - ISSN 1647-9009. - N. especial (2025).
Investigating the environmental sustainability of a seabass and seabream aquacu...
Briones-Hidrovo, Andrei; Quinteiro, Paula; Dias, Ana CláudiaAquaculture plays an essential role in supplying animal-source food and protein worldwide, in this way contributing to several sustainable development goals. Notwithstanding this, the aquaculture sector's long-term environmental sustainability is a major concern due to overall environmental impacts. To date, and to the best of the authors' knowledge, assessments of aquaculture systems in Portugal from an enviro...
Domestic hot water systems: environmental performance from a life cycle assessm...
Raluy, R. Gemma; Dias, Ana CláudiaFour types of commercially-available domestic hot water (DHW) systems (natural gas instantaneous, electric instantaneous, electric storage and heat pump) were analysed and compared from a life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective and their environmental hotspots (stages and processes) were determined. In addition, the influence of the origin of the energy consumed during their usage was analysed and their environ...
Environmental and energy performance of residual forest biomass for electricity...
Briones-Hidrovo, Andrei; Copa, José; Tarelho, Luís A.C.; Gonçalves, Cátia; Pacheco da Costa, Tamíris; Dias, Ana CláudiaBioenergy systems have a great potential worldwide to substitute fossil fuels mainly because they may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In Portugal, several biomass combustion-based power plants have been built in the last decade. Biomass gasification is a potential alternative to combustion but its environmental impacts should be evaluated. The goal of this study is to assess and compare the en...
Evaluating the carbon footprint of a Spanish city through environmentally exten...
Rama, Manuel; Entrena-Barbero, Eduardo; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Moreira, María Teresa; Feijoo, Gumersindo; González-García, SaraCurrently, most of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributed to cities, as they are the global centers of business, residential and cultural activity, cities are expected to play a leading role in proposing climate change mitigation actions. To do so, it is important to have tools that allow the carbon footprint of cities to be assessed as accurately as possible. This study aims to quantify the carbon f...
Life cycle assessment of fish and seafood processed products - a review of meth...
Ruiz-Salmón, Israel; Laso, Jara; Margallo, María; Villanueva-Rey, Pedro; Rodríguez, Eduardo; Quinteiro, Paula; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Almeida, CheilaLife cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied in many different sectors, but the marine products and seafood segment have received relatively little attention in the past. In recent decades, global fish production experienced sustained growth and peaked at about 179 million tonnes in 2018. Consequently, increased interest in the environmental implications of fishery products along the supply chain, namely...
Life-Cycle Assessment of Dairy Products - Case Study of Regional Cheese Produce...
Nunes, Óscar Soares; Gaspar, Pedro Dinis; Nunes, José; Quinteiro, Paula; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Godina, RaduNowadays, there is a growing promotion to label products ecologically in European markets. Knowing that daily products have relevant environmental impact associated with their production, it is of utmost importance to analyse all the related production processes for a better understanding of each process impact. The present study analysed the potential environmental impacts of a Portuguese regional product, the...
Addressing challenges and opportunities of the European seafood sector under a ...
Ruiz-Salmón, Israel; Margallo, María; Laso, Jara; Villanueva-Rey, Pedro; Mariño, Dolores; Quinteiro, Paula; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Nunes, Maria LeonorThe European seafood and aquaculture sectors are facing important challenges in terms of environmental threats (climate change, marine debris, resources depletion), social development (worker rights, consumer's awareness) or economic growth (market and nonmarket goods and services, global competitiveness). These issues are forcing all stakeholders, from policy-makers to citizens and industries, to move to more ...
Improving carbon stock estimates for in-use harvested wood products by linking ...
Xiaobiao Zhang; Chen, Jiaxin; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Hongqiang YangWe developed a method to better estimate the carbon stocks of in-use harvested wood products (HWP) by using the Eora multiregional input-output tables to link global HWP production and end uses, compared to existing global-scale studies that focused on semifinished HWP. Using the new method, we allocated global HWP to country-specific end uses, including solid HWP used in (1) construction, (2) furniture product...
Global warming implications from increased forest biomass utilization for bioen...
Bikuña, Koldo Saez de; Garcia, Rita; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Freire, FaustoThis article analyzes different forest management strategies to meet the increasing demand of biomass for bioenergy and assesses the resulting global warming implications. Applied to maritime pine forest plantations in Portugal, the assessed strategies are: full harvest of residues (FULL); sustainable and proactive management (SMART); expansion of forest plantations on abandoned farmland (EXP); and biomass impo...