Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in th...
status: published
Life cycle assessment of struvite recovery and wastewater sludge end-use : a Flemish illustration
Phosphate rock (PR) has been designated as a Critical Raw Material in the European Union (EU). This has led to increased emphasis on alternative P recovery (APR) from secondary streams like wastewater sludge (WWS). However, WWS end-use is a contentious topic, and EU member states prefer different end-use pathways (land application/incineration/valo...
Effects of Photovoltaic Solar Farms on Microclimate and Vegetation Diversity
status: published
Increasing the Sustainability of the Hybrid Mold Technique through Combined Insert Polymeric Material and Additive Manuf...
To reduce plastic waste generation from failed product batches during industrial injection molding, the sustainable production of representative prototypes is essential. Interesting is the more recent hybrid injection molding (HM) technique, in which a polymeric mold core and cavity are produced via additive manufacturing (AM) and are both placed i...
Genetically modified crops in developing countries : savior or traitor?
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Genetic modification has been used as a method to produce higher yields for consumption. However, the impact of genetic modification technology on agriculture in developing countries at the farm level often remains unclear. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the environmental, social and economic consequences of genetically modified (GM) cro...
Food biodiversity : quantifying the unquantifiable in human diets
Dietary diversity is an established public health principle, and its measurement is essential for studies of diet quality and food security. However, conventional between food group scores fail to capture the nutritional variability and ecosystem services delivered by dietary richness and dissimilarity within food groups, or the relative distributi...
How barriers towards plant-based food consumption differ according to dietary lifestyle : findings from a consumer surve...
A diet shift towards a more plant-based food consumption is advocated for sustainable, health and ethical reasons. Still, a diet change remains a societal challenge. The objective of this paper is to identify how barriers towards plant-based food consumption are experienced according to dietary lifestyle in 10 European countries. A pan-EU consumer ...
Large-scale cultured meat production: Trends, challenges and promising biomanufacturing technologies
Food systems of the future will need to face an increasingly clear reality - that a protein-rich diet is essential for good health, but traditional meat products will not suffice to ensure safety, sustainability, and equity of food supply chains at a global scale. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of bioprocess technologies needed for cell-b...
Food biodiversity and total and cause-specific mortality in 9 European countries : An analysis of a prospective cohort s...
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Background: Food biodiversity, encompassing the variety of plants, animals, and other organisms consumed as food and drink, has intrinsic potential to underpin diverse, nutritious diets and improve Earth system resilience. Dietary species richness (DSR), which is recommended as a crosscutting measure of food biodiversity, has been positively associ...
Food biodiversity and total and cause-specific mortality in 9 European countries: An analysis of a prospective cohort st...
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Background Food biodiversity, encompassing the variety of plants, animals, and other organisms consumed as food and drink, has intrinsic potential to underpin diverse, nutritious diets and improve Earth system resilience. Dietary species richness (DSR), which is recommended as a crosscutting measure of food biodiversity, has been positively associa...
