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Environmental performance evaluation of agro-industrial innovations – Part 2: methodological approach for performing vulnerability analysis of watersheds

2010; Elsevier BV; Volume: 18; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.04.013

1879-1786

Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo, Géraldo Stachetti Rodrigues, Armando Caldeira-Pires, Morsyleide de Freitas Rosa, Fernando Antônio Souza de Aragão, Vicente de Paulo Pereira Barbosa Vieira, Francisco Suetônio Bastos Mota,

Agricultural Innovations and Practices

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.