Life Cycle Assessment Of Urban Food Consumption

DOI

10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

life cycle assessment (LCA); urban food consumption; environmental impacts

Abstract

Rapid urbanization brings a quick growth of urban environmental pressure. Food consumption is taken as one of the most resource demanding and polluting daily activities in urban life, and is also the important part of urban environmental impact. We calculated the environmental impact of urban food consumption of a Chinese city named Dalian in 2012, including human ingestion and human excretion. The results show the degree of contributions made by all stages of food consumption to impact categories, and that food production and home cooking are the main contributors of environmental impact of Dalian in 2012. Decision-makers can optimize the corresponding stages of urban food consumption for different environmental problems, and the results can provide technical support for urban environmental impact assessment.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yu Qi
AU  - Yun Zhang
AU  - Hui Jiang
AU  - Yufei Zeng
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - Life Cycle Assessment Of Urban Food Consumption
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 43
EP  - 46
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.10
DO  - 10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.10
ID  - Qi2016/05
ER  -