Francesca Verones
Francesca Verones
Professor Program for industriell økologi
Institutt for energi- og prosessteknikk Fakultet for ingeniørvitenskapBakgrunn og aktiviteter
Research
My work is related to developing models for projected impacts on aquatic, marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services. Human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems call for novel methods to assess, quantify, and spatially differentiate their extent and consequences. I focus on advancing the field of life cycle assessment (LCA) to improve and complement this widely used assessment approach.
Moreover, I am chair of a task force of the UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative on ecosystem quality within Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) and I am leading the effort to operationalize LC-Impact, a novel, spatially-differentiated LCIA method (see http://lc-impact.eu).
In 2019 I was awarded an ERC starting grant ( ATLANTIS).
Academic background
2021 - Adjunct Professor, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
2020 - Professor, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department for Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2014 - 2020 Associate Professor, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department for Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2013 - 2014 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2009 - 2013 PhD in Environmental Engineering. Institute of Env. Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - 2009 MSc in Environmental Engineering, Institute of Env. Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2003 - 2006 BSc in Environmental Engineering, Institute of Env. Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
On-going projects
2021-2025 SusHydro - Sustainable hydropower development and reservoir management as an enabler of the renewable energy transition and an accelerator to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Funded by the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiatives at NTNU. Role: co-PI
2021-2025 MAPLE - Marine Plastic Pollution: Environmental impact and life cycle scenarios. Funded by the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiatives at NTNU. Role: PI
2021-2024 FIREPLUG - Footprint and Impact of Renewable Energy: Pressure on Lands under Growth. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Role: WP5 co-leader.
2020-2023 CONSENSE - Contributing to sustainable energy systems in Norway: quantifying life-cycle impacts on biodiversity. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Role: PI
2020-2025 ATLANTIS - Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incroporating human impacts on marine ecosystems within life cycle impact assessment. Funded by the European Research Commission (ERC starting grant). Role: PI
2020-2023 LIF-OWI - Environmental, socio-economic and technological issues for life cycle assessment of offshore wind farms. Financed by FEM and Ademe, France. Role: Partner
Selected past projects
2018-2021 CitizenScience - Transforming Citizen Science for Biodiversity. Funded by NTNU. Role: co-PI
2016-2019 Footprints2.0. Funded by the Research Council of Norway. Role: PI
2015-2017 TSUNAGARI - Transsystem, unified approach for global and regional integration of socialecological study toward sustainable use of biodiv. and ecosystem services. Funded by the Norwegian Reseach Council through the Biodiversa scheme. Role: partner
2015-2019 SURE - Towards sustainable renewable energy production: Developing a Life
Cycle Impact Assessment framework for biodiversity impacts. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Role: PI
2015-2019 AfricanBioServices. Funded by the European Commission. Role: task leader
PhD students
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Jan Borgelt - Citizen Science Project
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Dafna Gilad - CONSENSE Project
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Marthe Alnes Høiberg - ATLANTIS project
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Fei Song - ATLANTIS project
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Philip Gjedde - ATLANTIS project
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Elisa Pastor Valles - SiSAl project (co-supervision)
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Johana Paola Forero Urrego (co-supervision)
Postdocs and Researchers
- Martin Dorber (Researcher) - ATLANTIS, SusHydro and Life Cycle Initiative
Emner
- TEP4550 - Energi- og prosessteknikk, fordypningsprosjekt
- TEP4930 - Industrial Ecology, Master's Thesis
- TEP4220 - Miljøpåvirkningsindikatorer for beslutningsstøtte
- TEP5100 - Industriell økologi, prosjekt
- TEP4305 - Industriell økologi, seminar - kritisk gjennomgang og formidling av vitenskap
- EP8108 - Livssyklusvurdering og miljøsystemanalyse
Vitenskapelig, faglig og kunstnerisk arbeid
Viser et utvalg av aktivitet. Se alle publikasjoner i databasen
2022
- (2022) Native range estimates for red-listed vascular plants. Scientific Data. vol. 9.
- (2022) Life-cycle impacts of onshore wind-power plants on bird richness. Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts . Bureau Waardenburg; Egmond aan zee, the Netherlands. 2022-04-07 - 2022-04-07.
2021
- (2021) Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use. Ecological Economics. vol. 185.
- (2021) Marine plastics in LCA: current status and MarILCA’s contributions. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
- (2021) Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. vol. 19 (2).
- (2021) Global distribution of potential impact hotspots for marine plastic debris entanglement. Ecological Indicators. vol. 135.
- (2021) Considering habitat conversion and fragmentation in characterisation factors for land-use impacts on vertebrate species richness. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 801.
- (2021) Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions. One Earth. vol. 4 (10).
- (2021) The MarINvaders Toolkit. Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS).
- (2021) A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets. Nature Ecology and Evolution. vol. 5.
- (2021) Life-cycle impacts of wind energy development on bird diversity in Norway. Environmental impact assessment review. vol. 90.
- (2021) Empirical Characterization Factors for Life Cycle Assessment of the Impacts of Reservoir Occupation on Macroinvertebrate Richness across the United States. Sustainability. vol. 13 (5).
- (2021) A framework for the assessment of marine litter impacts in life cycle impact assessment. Ecological Indicators. vol. 129.
2020
- (2020) Controlling biodiversity impacts of future global hydropower reservoirs by strategic site selection. Scientific Reports. vol. 10.
- (2020) Global characterization factors for terrestrial biodiversity impacts of future land inundation in Life Cycle Assessment. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 712.
- (2020) Can we locate shrimp aquaculture areas from space? – A case study for Thailand. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE). vol. 20.
- (2020) Overview of recent land cover changes in the biodiversity hotspots. 2020.
- (2020) Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. Sustainability. vol. 12 (6).
- (2020) Quantifying Europe's biodiversity footprints and the role of urbanization and income. Global Sustainability. vol. 3.
- (2020) Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase. Journal of Industrial Ecology. vol. 24 (5).
- (2020) Quantification and valuation of ecosystem services in life cycle assessment: Application of the cascade framework to rice farming systems. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 747.
- (2020) Global life-cycle impacts of onshore wind-power plants on bird richness. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. vol. 8.
- (2020) LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
2019
- (2019) Quantifying net water consumption of Norwegian hydropower reservoirs and related aquatic biodiversity impacts in Life Cycle Assessment. Environmental impact assessment review. vol. 76.
- (2019) A new framework to assess aquatic biodiversity impacts of non-consumptive water use from reservoirs in Life Cycle Assessment. ISIE 2019 ; 2019-07-07 - 2019-07-11.
- (2019) Potential Consequences of Regional Species Loss for Global Species Richness: A Quantitative Approach for Estimating Global Extinction Probabilities. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 53 (9).
- (2019) Incorporating habitat fragmentation into the characterisation of land use impacts on biodiversity. SETAC Europe 29th annual meeting . SETAC; Helsinki. 2019-05-26 - 2019-05-30.
- (2019) Reviewing the potential for including habitat fragmentation to improve life cycle impact assessments for land use impacts on biodiversity. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 2206 (2219).
- (2019) Do Amphibians and Cash Crops Compete for Scarce Water? A Spatial Correlation Analysis. Sustainability. vol. 11 (6).
- (2019) Towards integrating the ecosystem services cascade framework within the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) cause-effect methodology. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 690.
- (2019) An effect factor approach for quantifying the entanglement impact on marine species of macroplastic debris within life cycle impact assessment. Ecological Indicators. vol. 99.
- (2019) Ecosystem damage from anthropogenic seabed disturbance: A life cycle impact assessment characterisation model. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 649.
2018
- (2018) Land under water: Estimating hydropower’s land use impacts. https://geminiresearchnews.com/2018/03/land-water-estimating [Internett]. 2018-03-15.
- (2018) Using life cycle impact assessment to predict site-specific ecological impacts of remaining global hydropower potentials. EcoBalance. EcoBalance 2018 ; 2018-10-09 - 2018-10-21.
- (2018) Impacts of flow alteration on aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment: the case of Norwegian hydropower. Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (GRC) ; Les Diablerets. 2018-05-20 - 2018-05-25.
- (2018) Impacts of flow alteration on aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment: the case of Norwegian hydropower. Gordon Research Seminar on Industrial Ecology (GRS) ; Les Diablerets. 2018-05-19 - 2018-05-20.
- (2018) Modeling net land occupation of hydropower reservoirs in Norway for use in life cycle assessment. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 52 (4).
- (2018) Towards Sustainable Renewables - A potential biodiversity trade-off ?. Energiforskningskonferansen 2018 ; Oslo. 2018-05-30 - 2018-05-30.
- (2018) Integrating impacts on climate change and biodiversity from forest harvest in Norway. Ecological Indicators. vol. 89.
- (2018) Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 23 (11).
- (2018) Translating regional species loss into global species extinctions. Ïndustrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference . Stefanie Hellweg; Les Diablerets. 2018-05-19 - 2018-05-25.
- (2018) Impacts of onshore wind energy production on birds and bats: recommendations for future life cycle impact assessment developments. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 23 (10).
- (2018) Prøver du å hjelpe den stakkars kloden vår? Og lurer på om det faktisk nytter?. Dagbladet Magasinet [Internett]. 2018-08-07.
- (2018) Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
- (2018) TSUNAGARI: a new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study toward conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecological Research. vol. 33 (1).
- (2018) A Multimedia Hydrological Fate Modeling Framework To Assess Water Consumption Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 52.
- (2018) Biodiversity Recovery and Transformation Impacts for Wetland Biodiversity. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 52 (15).
- (2018) A novel maximum entropy approach to hybrid monetary-physical supply-chain modelling and its application to biodiversity impacts of palm oil embodied in consumption. Environmental Research Letters. vol. 13 (11).
- (2018) Whales, waste and sea walnuts. Gordon Research Conference . ISIE; Les Diablerets. 2018-05-20 - 2018-05-25.
2017
- (2017) Life Cycle Assessment of water consumption impacts from hydropower reservoirs on aquatic biodiversity in Norway. HydroEco 2017 Conference ; Birmingham. 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-23.
- (2017) Characterization Factors for hydropower production impacts on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment. ISIE-ISSST 2017 Conference ; Chicago. 2017-06-25 - 2017-06-29.
- (2017) Health benefits, ecological threats of low-carbon electricity. Environmental Research Letters. vol. 12 (3).
- (2017) ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 22 (2).
- (2017) Integrating climate change and biodiversity impacts following forest harvest operations in Norway. LCM2017 Conference . Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology; Luxembourg. 2017-09-03 - 2017-09-06.
- (2017) Integrating impacts on climate change and biodiversity from forest harvest in Norway. Life Cycle Management (LCM) Conference . Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology; European Convention Center Luxembourg. 2017-09-03 - 2017-09-06.
- (2017) Advancing the representation of habitat fragmentation in LCIA. ISIE-ISSST ; Chicago. 2017-06-25 - 2017-06-29.
- (2017) How to quantify biodiversity footprints of consumption? A review of multi-regional input–output analysis and life cycle assessment. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. vol. 29.
- (2017) Making Marine Noise Pollution Impacts Heard: The Case of Cetaceans in the North Sea within Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Sustainability. vol. 9 (7).
- (2017) Mapping the carbon, air pollution, and biodiversity footprints of nations: A GIS + MRIO approach. ISIE-ISSST 2017: Science in Support of Sustainable and Resilient Communities ; Chicago. 2017-06-26 - 2017-06-30.
- (2017) Environmental pressure footprints vs. impact footprints: which is the better proxy?. International Input--Output Association Conference . IIOA; Atlantic City. 2017-06-12 - 2017-06-16.
- (2017) Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016) ?A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA?. Ecological Indicators. vol. 72.
- (2017) Towards harmonizing natural resources as an area of protection in life cycle impact assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
- (2017) A Maximum Entropy Approach to the Hybridization of MRIOs for the Estimation of Biodiversity Footprints. International Input-Output Conference 2017 . IIOA; Atlantic City. 2017-06-19.
- (2017) LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Journal of Cleaner Production. vol. 161.
- (2017) A case study of life cycle impacts of small-scale fishing techniques in Thailand. Cogent Environmental Science. vol. 3.
- (2017) Resource footprints and their ecosystem consequences. Scientific Reports. vol. 7.
- (2017) What are the ecosystem consequences of resource footprints?. 25th International Input-Output Conference ; 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-23.
- (2017) Biodiversity impacts from water consumption on a global scale for use in life cycle assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 22 (8).
- (2017) Ecosystem Quality in LCIA: status quo, harmonization, and suggestions for the way forward. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
2016
- (2016) Terrestrial biodiversity loss in Norway due to hydropower production: A Life Cycle Assessment approach. Sfécologie 2016-International Conference of Ecological Sciences ; Marseille. 2016-10-24 - 2016-10-28.
- (2016) Are Wave and Tidal Energy Plants New Green Technologies?. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 50.
- (2016) Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 21 (3).
- (2016) Impacts from hydropower production on biodiversity in an LCA framework—review and recommendations. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 21 (3).
- (2016) An allometric approach to quantify the extinction vulnerability of birds and mammals. Ecology. vol. 97 (3).
- (2016) ReCiPe 2016:A harmonized life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level Report I: Characterization. 2016.
- (2016) Quantifying wind energy impacts on ecosystems: an LCA approach. Ecobalance conference ; Kyoto. 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) On the suitability of input–output analysis for calculating product-specific biodiversity footprints. Ecological Indicators. vol. 60.
- (2016) Prospects by WULCA in the impact modelling of water consumption in LCA. SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting . SETAC Europe; Nantes. 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-26.
- (2016) Normalisation and weighting in life cycle assessment: quo vadis?. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
- (2016) Area of concern: a new paradigm in life cycle assessment for the development of footprint metrics. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. vol. 21 (2).
- (2016) Natural Resources as an Area of Protection in LCA - outcomes of the discussion by the working group on resources within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting . SETAC Europe; Nantes. 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-26.
- (2016) Current Developments in Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Ecobalance conference ; 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) Reaching consensus on cross-cutting issues. SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting . SETAC Europe; Nantes. 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-26.
- (2016) Comparing the life cycle impact of different fishing techniques in Thailand. Ecobalance conference ; Kyoto. 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) Impacts of hydropower production on biodiversity: overview and the way forward. Ecobalance conference ; Kyoto. 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) Reaching consensus on cross-cutting issues in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). Ecobalance conference ; Kyoto. 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) Environmental pressure footprints vs. impact footprints: which is the better proxy?. Ecobalance conference ; Kyoto. 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-06.
- (2016) Water Use Analysis. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies.
- (2016) Advancing marine impact assessment within life cycle assessment (LCA). SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting . SETAC Europe; Nantes. 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-26.
- (2016) Towards a meaningful assessment of marine ecological impacts in life cycle assessment (LCA). Environment International. vol. 89-90.
- (2016) Accounting for biodiversity impacts of seabed damage in life cycle assessment. SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting . SETAC Europe; Nantes. 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-26.
- (2016) Quantifying marine ecological impacts in life cycle assessment. On the application of genomic tools for biomonitoring of the marine environment: from technology to legal and socio-economic aspects. . University of Geneva; 2016-04-04 - 2016-04-05.
2015
- (2015) Quantifying Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity: Combining Species–Area Models and Vulnerability Indicators. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 49 (16).
- (2015) Making Sense of the Minefield of Footprint Indicators. Environmental Science and Technology.
- (2015) Global guidance task force on cross-cutting issues: task force meeting. UNEP-SETAC global guidance meeting Barcelona 2015 . UNEP SETAC; Barcelona. 2015-05-07 - 2015-05-08.
- (2015) LC-Impact. Special session at ISIE conference . Francesca Verones /ISIE; Guildford. 2015-07-06 - 2015-07-06.
- (2015) Life Cycle Assessment and the Natural Environment: Current Assessment Options and the Way Forward. International Workshop of Area-Capability Enhancement in Coastal Zone . Research Insitute for Humanity and Nature; Kyoto. 2015-12-14 - 2015-12-16.
- (2015) Harmonizing the Assessment of Biodiversity Effects from Land and Water Use within LCA. Environmental Science and Technology. vol. 49 (6).
- (2015) Resource footprints and their ecosystem consequences. Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology - ISIE Conference 2015 . International Society for industrial ecology; Guildford. 2015-07-06 - 2015-07-10.
- (2015) Quantifying the ecosystem impacts of resource footprints. Transformations -11th Annual meeting . European Society for Environmental Economics; Leeds. 2015-06-30 - 2015-07-03.