Environmental Sustainability: Analysis, Allocation, and Assessment of Land Use for Sustainability

[932484] matthew将根据公开数据创建美国土地使用清单，该清单将分配用于生产美国经济商品的土地。然后，这些数据将被纳入一个混合过程-经济投入产出生命周期评估框架，以评估整个生产供应链中土地利用的重要性。将考虑将土地利用纳入生命周期分析的独特挑战，最重要的是分配问题。完成土地利用清单和将土地利用准确地纳入生命周期评估的开发方法，将允许对许多可持续性研究问题的土地利用进行深入分析。清单和结果数据将在互联网上提供，以便其他土地利用和可持续性研究人员可以查阅。将使用新创建的数据集进行一些案例研究，以量化美国和全球土地利用变化的影响。为此，重点领域将是增加生物燃料生产的使用（以评估粮食与燃料的争论），以及通过考虑大都市地区的总土地足迹来考虑城市化的影响。该项目将通过在现有的能源、空气和水排放以及有毒物质释放的重点领域增加一个相关和重要的类别（土地使用），为环境可持续性社区服务。该项目将编制关于土地利用可持续性的课程单元，并将通过互联网传播。

0932484MatthewsAn inventory of land use in the United States based on publicly available data will be created that will assign the land used to produce commodities in the U.S. economy. These data will then be incorporated into a hybrid process - economic input-output life cycle assessment framework to evaluate the importance of land use across the supply chain of production. Unique challenges associated with the inclusion of land use in life cycle analysis will be considered, most importantly allocation issues. Completion of a land use inventory and development methods to accurately include land use in life cycle assessment will permit an in-depth analysis of land use for many sustainability research questions. The inventory and resulting data will be made available on the Internet so that it is accessible to other land use and sustainability researchers. A number of case studies using the newly created data set will be conducted to quantify the implications of land use change within the U.S. as well as globally. For these, the focus areas will be on increased use of biofuels production (to assess food versus fuel debates) and on the effects of urbanization by considering the total land footprint of metropolitan areas. This project will serve the environmental sustainability community by adding a relevant and significant category (land use) to the existing focus areas of energy, air and water emissions, and toxic releases. The project will develop course modules on land use sustainability that will be disseminated via the Internet.