Markus Berger

TL;DR: This study analyzes water consumption and the resulting impacts of Volkswagen's car models Polo, Golf, and Passat and represents the first application of impact-oriented water footprint methods on complex industrial products.

TL;DR: The current challenges of assessing impacts of resource use in LCA have been addressed by defining the safeguard subject for mineral resources, formulating key questions related to this safeguard subject, recommending existing LCIA methods in relation to these questions, and highlighting areas for future method development.

TL;DR: A thorough review of existing life cycle impact assessment methods addressing impacts of mineral resource use, covering a broad overview of basic impact mechanisms to a detailed discussion of method-specific modeling supports a better understanding of what the methods actually assess and highlights their strengths and limitations.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive method has been developed to measure resource efficiency of products, processes and services in the context of sustainable development (ESSENZ), and 21 categories are established to measure impacts on the environment, physical and socio-economic availability of the used resources as well as their societal acceptance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the consistent development of midpoint and endpoint characterisation factors (CFs) for assessing the impacts of freshwater consumption in relation to agricultural water scarcity.