Land Use

Interpretation of land use

In addition to the necessity to include land use in LCAs and the methodological aspects, we also investigated the options in the interpretation of land use in agriculture.
A detailed discussion can be found in:

• G. A. Reinhardt, G. Zemanek:
  Ökobilanz Bioenergieträger. Basisdaten, Ergebnisse, Bewertungen ( LCA of bioenergy sources. Data, results, valuations; in German). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2000

Contact:
Guido Reinhardt (06221/4767-31; guido.reinhardt(at)ifeu.de)
Juergen Giegrich (06221/4767-21; juergen.giegrich@ifeu.de)

Modelling land use

IFEU developed a methodology of how to assess land use in collaboration with the Büro für angewandte Waldökologie, Duvensee (Bureau for applied forest ecology). 
Case studies have been applied for agriculture, forestry, and mining. Basic studies as well as applications can be found, among others, in the following publication:

• H. Fehrenbach:
  Operationalisierung der Wirkungskategorie Naturraumbeanspruchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung landwirtschaftlich genutzter Flächen - internes Arbeitspapier (pdf 267 KB). (Operationalisation of land-use as a category of Life Cycle – Impact Assessment (LCIA) with particular reference to agricultural land;) in German, internal Working Paper; Heidelberg 2000
• ifeu, IKP, BFH (eds.): 
  Verifizierung verschiedener Methoden zur Wirkungsabschätzung des Wirkkriteriums Naturrauminanspruchnahme/Landnutzung/
  Landverbrauch. ( pdf 890 KB) (Verification of different methods to assess the impact of the impact criterion land use, in German).  Heidelberg/Stuttgart/Hamburg 1999

Contact:
Juergen Giegrich (06221/4767-21; juergen.giegrich@ifeu.de).
Horst Fehrenbach (06221/4767-16; horst.fehrenbach@ifeu.de).