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Global land use impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services in LCA

  • GLOBAL LAND USE IMPACTS ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN LCA
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Acknowledgments

For the financial and intellectual support of research underlying this special issue, the authors want to thank the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. The research was also funded through the projects myEcosystem (ETH Research Grant CH1-0308-3) and Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods for Improved Sustainability Characterisation of Technologies under the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission. We appreciated the critical feedback of numerous anonymous reviewers on the papers published in this special issue.

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  1. Professorship of Ecological Services, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences, GEO II, University of Bayreuth, Room 1.17, Universitaetsstr. 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany

    Thomas Koellner

  2. Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

    Roland Geyer

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Koellner, T., Geyer, R. Global land use impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services in LCA. Int J Life Cycle Assess 18, 1185–1187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-013-0580-6

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