Thomas Schaubroeck

TL;DR: The hypothesized granulation pathways include granule replication by division and budding and are driven by growth and/or decay based on species-specific physiology and by hydrodynamic shear and mixing.

TL;DR: The outcomes show that the complete life cycle results in a prevention of resource extraction from nature and a potential mitigation of diversity loss but it also leads to a damaging effect on human health, mainly via climate change and heavy metal toxicity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the concept of the recyclability benefit rate indicator, which expresses the potential envi- ronmental savings that can be achieved from recycling the product over the environmental burdens of virgin production followed by disposal.

TL;DR: Two indicators using net primary production (NPP) loss as a relevant proxy to primarily assess the impact of land use on ecosystem health are introduced and the advantages and limitations compared to state-of-the-art NPP-based land use indicators are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a roadmap to address three conceptual challenges: (1) framing which areas should primarily be sustained and hence on which the impact should be assessed, that is, re-defining of the AoPs; (2) accounting for the interconnectedness among AoPs (e.g., influence of ecosystems on human well-being); and (3) the assessment of both benefit and damage to the AoP.