DOCUMENTATION OF LAND USE INDICATORS ... - GaBi Software
DOCUMENTATION OF LAND USE INDICATORS ... - GaBi Software
DOCUMENTATION OF LAND USE INDICATORS ... - GaBi Software
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4<br />
DISCUSSSION<br />
AND D OUTLOOOK<br />
With the inntegration<br />
oof<br />
consisten nt land use information n in the GaB Bi databasee,<br />
for the fir rst time it iss<br />
possible too<br />
examine aand<br />
to quan ntify the effeects<br />
a prod duct or a pro ocess has oon<br />
the land d used. Thee<br />
informationn<br />
produced refers to land l qualityy<br />
parameters<br />
and is summable s aand<br />
scalable<br />
over thee<br />
whole proccess<br />
chain.<br />
However, aas<br />
this is thhe<br />
first inclusion<br />
of succh<br />
land use information n into a dataabase,<br />
there e are somee<br />
limitations to be mentioned:<br />
Lannd<br />
use inforrmation<br />
is only<br />
includedd<br />
in land co onsuming un nit processees.<br />
Enttry<br />
data is often deriv ved from ddatabases<br />
where w only country sppecific<br />
valu ues can bee<br />
gatthered.<br />
Morre<br />
site spec cific values would serv ve the accur racy of the results. Ne evertheless, ,<br />
theese<br />
values aare<br />
often dif fficult to obttain.<br />
Alloocation<br />
of transformation<br />
effects especially for f agricultu ural processses<br />
is not done d so farr<br />
andd<br />
is subject to further re esearch.<br />
Still the baackground<br />
data provid des valuablee<br />
informatio on which can<br />
be usedd<br />
to compa are differentt<br />
products oon<br />
a countryy<br />
scale. For<br />
the compaarison<br />
of ex xactly located<br />
foregrouund<br />
process ses or landd<br />
uses, indiccator<br />
valuess<br />
can be ca alculated ussing<br />
LANCA<br />
and can be includeed<br />
into unit processes. .<br />
This proceedure<br />
allowss<br />
for a detailed<br />
comparrison<br />
of loca ations.<br />
In conclussion,<br />
the land<br />
use dat tabase in G<strong>GaBi</strong><br />
gives the user a good starrting<br />
point in order too<br />
determine the main coontributors<br />
to land usee<br />
effects. Du ue to further<br />
developmment<br />
of the method, m thee<br />
tool and ddue<br />
to incrreasing<br />
dat ta availabiliity,<br />
same as a other LC CA data, laand<br />
use data<br />
will bee<br />
periodicallyy<br />
updated too<br />
ensure up p-to-dateness<br />
of results.<br />
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