Nature Communications
Published: 21 April 2017
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15065?origin=ppub

Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Sarah Sim, Perrine Hamel, Benjamin Bryant, Ryan Noe, Carina Mueller, Giles Rigarlsford, Michal Kulak, Virginia Kowal, Richard Sharp, Julie Clavreul, Edward Price, Stephen Polasky, Mary Ruckelshaus & Gretchen Daily

Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

  • limitation: 1. Estimating Linear extrapolation of past changes at the country level; 2. No heterogeneity within a nation; 3. Landscape configuration and context are ignored.
  • Linking LCA with land-use change modelling and spatially explicit ecosystem services modelling.
  • Case study: impact of 3 production volumes of high-demand bio-based, high-density polyethylene(DHPE, made of maize and sugarcane).