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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...
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 ...
Integrating urban metabolism, material flow analysis and life cycle assessment ...
García-Guaita, Fernando; González-García, Sara; Villanueva-Rey, Pedro; Moreira, María Teresa; Feijoo, GumersindoAchieving urban sustainability has become imperative. The combination of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) could be considered an attractive method to assess the sustainability of a city’s metabolism. However, the need for exhaustive data makes this method time-consuming and uncertain. This study carries out a simplified UM-MFA-LCA analysis of the city of Santiago de Compostela (Spain...
Cross-vessel eco-efficiency analysis. A case study for purse seining fishing fr...
González-García, Sara; Villanueva-Rey, Pedro; Belo, Sara; Vázquez-Rowe, Ian; Teresa Moreira, María; Feijoo, Gumersindo; Arroja, LuisPurpose European pilchard captures constitute an important source of income for the Portuguese fishing sector. This raw material is used for a varied range of final seafood products, such as canning, fresh seafood consumption or bait for other fisheries. The Portuguese purse seining fleet, which concentrates most of the pilchard landings, has recently obtained the Marine Stewardship Council certification scheme...