IMPACT4SOIL OpenAire Crossref Microsoft Academic Graph Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining Closed Access 2011-07-14 Abstract<p>Bioenergy expansion can significantly impact water resources in the region in which it occurs. Investment, policy, and resource management decisions related to bioenergy should therefore take this critical consideration into account. Water resource impacts can defy easy quantification because water consumption varies spatially and temporally, different water sources are not necessarily commensurable, and impact depends on the state of the resource base that is drawn upon. This perspective offers an assessment framework that operators and policy￢ﾀﾐmakers can use in evaluating projects to avoid or mitigate detrimental effects. We adapt water footprint (WF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to the bioenergy context, describing comprehensive life cycle inventory (LCI) approaches that account for blue and green water use as well as for pollution effects, varying sources, coproduct allocation, and spatial heterogeneity. Impact assessment requires that characterization (weighting) factors be derived so that consumption values can be summed and compared across resources and locations. We recommend that characterization draw on metrics of water stress, accounting for environmental flow requirements, climatic variability, and non￢ﾀﾐlinearity of water stress effects. Finally, we describe some location￢ﾀﾐspecific impacts of concern that may not be revealed through common analytical approaches and may warrant closer consideration. ￂﾩ 2011 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd</p> 13. Climate action 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy 6. Clean water 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 12. Responsible consumption Kevin Fingerman, Stuart Orr, Brian Richter, P. Vugteveen, Göran Berndes, 2011-07-01 journalpaper Abstract<p>Bioenergy expansion can significantly impact water resources in the region in which it occurs. Investment, policy, and resource management decisions related to bioenergy should therefore take this critical consideration into account. Water resource impacts can defy easy quantification because water consumption varies spatially and temporally, different water sources are not necessarily commensurable, and impact depends on the state of the resource base that is drawn upon. This perspective offers an assessment framework that operators and policy￢ﾀﾐmakers can use in evaluating projects to avoid or mitigate detrimental effects. We adapt water footprint (WF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to the bioenergy context, describing comprehensive life cycle inventory (LCI) approaches that account for blue and green water use as well as for pollution effects, varying sources, coproduct allocation, and spatial heterogeneity. Impact assessment requires that characterization (weighting) factors be derived so that consumption values can be summed and compared across resources and locations. We recommend that characterization draw on metrics of water stress, accounting for environmental flow requirements, climatic variability, and non￢ﾀﾐlinearity of water stress effects. Finally, we describe some location￢ﾀﾐspecific impacts of concern that may not be revealed through common analytical approaches and may warrant closer consideration. ￂﾩ 2011 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd</p> Impact Assessment At The Bioenergy-Water Nexus 10.1002/bbb.294 https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.294