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The black goby Gobius niger Linnaeus, 1758 in the Marchica Lagoon (Alboran Sea, Morocco): spatio-temporal distribution, its environmental drivers, and the site-related footprint Hasselt University
Gobies (Gobiidae) are well represented in the Marchica Lagoon on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, both in terms of species richness and in terms of abundance, with the black goby, Gobius niger Linnaeus, 1758, being the dominant species. The present study aims to examine (1) the spatial and temporal distribution of G. niger and its environmental drivers in the lagoon and (2) the potential lagoon-related footprint using morphometric, genetic, and ...
The ABC’s of Ecological and Nutrition Labels. The Impact of Label Theme and Complexity on the Environmental Footprint of Online Grocery Choices KU Leuven
Current food production and consumption patterns pose serious threats to our global environment. The goal of the current research is to investigate whether the presence of specific informational cues, i.e., ecological labels and nutrition labels, can improve the environmental impact of food choices. Two online experiments were carried out in which young adults were asked to select products in a grocery shop setting, and to indicate quantities ...
Improving the resource footprint evaluation of products recovered from wastewater University of Antwerp Ghent University
Shifting from a linear to a circular economy has consequences on how the sustainability of products is assessed. This is the case for products recovered from resources such as sewage sludge. The “zero-burden” assumption is commonly used in Life Cycle Assessment and considers that waste streams are burden-free, which becomes debatable when comparing waste-based with virgin material-based products in the context of the growing circular economy. If ...
Adapting postharvest activities in the value chain of fisheries and aquaculture to the effects of climate change and mitigating their climate footprint through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Climate change events are impacting EU Postharvest (PH) value chains, resulting in rising costs and unpredictable supply flows of raw materials. Despite this, direct economic costs (e.g. fuel, transport) are the top priority for producers to mitigate, with less emphasis on how future changes in climate will impact businesses. New species may be added to the PH industry, while further development of wild caught fisheries and technological ...
Improving footprint calculations of small open economies University of Antwerp
In a small, open and resource-poor economy, import and export dependency have an ever-growing impact on local policy decisions, which makes local (environmental) policy-makers increasingly depend on global data. This increases the interest in models that link local production and consumption data to global production, trade and environmental data. The recent increase in availability of global environmentally extended multi-regional input-output ...
Microbial protein : future sustainable food supply route with low environmental footprint Ghent University
The Water Suitcase of Migrants: Assessing Virtual Water Fluxes Associated to Human Migration KU Leuven
Disentangling the relations between human migrations and water resources is relevant for food security and trade policy in water-scarce countries. It is commonly believed that human migrations are beneficial to the water endowments of origin countries for reducing the pressure on local resources. We show here that such belief is over-simplistic. We reframe the problem by considering the international food trade and the corresponding virtual ...