Environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations – Part 2: methodological approach for performing vulnerability analysis of watersheds |
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| Authors: | Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues Armando Caldeira-Pires Morsyleide de Freitas Rosa Fernando Antônio Sousa de Aragão Vicente de Paulo Pereira Barbosa Vieira Francisco Suetônio Bastos Mota |
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| Institution: | 3. USDA/ARS, Southern Plains Range Research Station, Woodward, OK 73801;4. The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73401;2. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State 39762;3. Prairie Research Unit, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State 39756;4. North Mississippi Branch Experiment Station, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State 38635;2. University of Arkansas Livestock and Forestry Research Station, Batesville 72501 |
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| Abstract: | Environmental vulnerability analysis has been sparsely used in environmental performance evaluation (EPE) of technological innovations. The present paper proposes a methodological approach to carry out vulnerability analysis of watersheds and to integrate this analysis into methods of environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations. This approach is applied to the Ambitec-Life Cycle method, described in Part 1 (this issue) of this study. The case study of green coconut substrate compared to ripe coconut substrate, also described in Part 1 (this issue), is now presented considering the vulnerability analysis of the watersheds where the life cycle stages of these products occur. The integration of vulnerability analysis in Ambitec-Life Cycle contributes to a better understanding of the environmental aspects of agro-industrial technological innovations with potential to cause significant impacts in watersheds where these innovations are implemented. |
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