Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within life cycle impact assessment
Environmental Pollution, Volume 341, January 2024
Naiara Casagrande, Carla O. Silva, Francesca Verones, Paula Sobral, Graça Martinho
All plastic contains additives. Once in the environment, these will start to leach out and will expose and harm aquatic biota, causing potentially lethal and sub-lethal toxic effects. Even though life cycle assessment covers the toxic impacts of several thousands of chemicals, models to assess the toxic impacts of plastic additives are only emerging. [...]Read more
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Ecosphere, Volume 14, november 2023
Francesca Verones, Philip Gjedde, Maximilian Koslowski, John S. Woods, Radek Lonka, Konstantin Stadler
Invasive species are the second most important reason for species extinction since 1500 ad. In addition, these invasive species can cause vast economic loss. In marine ecoregions, alien species introductions are increasing, and those that become invasive have caused profound changes in many marine ecoregions. [...]Read more
Ecological Indicators, Volume 135, February 2022
Marthe A.Høiberg, John S.Woods, FrancescaVerones
Marine animals have been known to interact with and become entangled in plastic debris for decades. Despite increasing annual input volumes of plastic waste to the natural environment and the threat this constitutes to marine biodiversity, impacts of mismanaged plastic waste generally remain unquantified in environmental impact assessments. [...]Read more
Ecological Indicators, Volume 99, April 2019, Pages 61-66
John S. Woods, Gorm Rødder, Francesca Verones
Plastic waste from anthropogenic activities is accumulating in the marine environment and poses a threat to marine biodiversity. Nevertheless, tools to assess the potential ecosystem damage from plastic waste are currently lacking from sustainability assessment approaches, such as life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies. [...]Read more
Ecological Indicators 129 (2021) 107918
John S. Woods, Francesca Verones, Olivier Jolliet, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Anne-Marie Boulay
Marine litter, mostly plastics, is a growing environmental problem. Environmental decision makers are beginning to take actions and implement regulations that aim to reduce plastic use and waste mismanagement. Nevertheless, life cycle assessment (LCA), a tool commonly used to assist environmental decision making, does not yet allow for considering the consequences of plastic waste leaked into the environment. [...] Read more
The Journal of Open Source Software
Radek Lonka, Francesca Verones, and Konstantin Stadler
The introduction and establishment of alien (non-native) species to foreign ecosystems is a key threat for marine biodiversity [...] Read more
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 850717).
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