Alissa Kendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 6390287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alissa Kendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kendall |
| SIGNATURE | KENDALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1964-9080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life cycle performance and carbon handprint of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles
Electrifying the transport sector will require manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries and extensive mining of their embedded critical minerals, like lithium. Research has quantified the future demand for lithium-ion batteries, their constituent materials and their environmental impacts, but typically without contextualizing these impacts within the benefits of fleet-level decarbonization. We conduct a life cycle assessment of the United States pr…
Trade, extended use, and end of life in the Global South
The environmental impacts of exporting second‐hand electric vehicles (SH EVs) to lower‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are increasingly relevant as electric vehicle (EV) adoption rises in high‐income countries. This study uses a regionally expanded life cycle assessment model to evaluate the lifecycle environmental performance of SH EV exports, their net benefits to LMICs, and their role in the global transition to electric mobility. The mod…
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction
Should high‐cobalt EV batteries be repurposed? Using LCA to assess the impact of technological innovation on the waste hierarchy
Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) are a key technology in decarbonizing the transportation and electricity sectors, yet the use of critical materials, such as cobalt, nickel, and lithium, lead to environmental and social impacts. Reusing, repurposing, and recycling mitigate battery impacts by extending their lifespan and reducing reliance on virgin materials. Innovation that reduces demand for these problematic materials and increases battery efficien…
What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California
Clean energy technologies provide global benefits through climate mitigation and many local environmental benefits for consumers. However, the supply chains that produce them inevitably impose some environmental burden on the communities where they operate. To align with the principles of environmental justice, the burdens and benefits of clean energy supply chains should be distributed equitably, with decision-making processes that empower local…
Understanding the future of lithium
Lithium is a critical energy material in part due to an array of emerging technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems that rely on large‐format lithium ion batteries. Recent growth in demand for lithium is primarily from increased use in batteries, which comprised 46% of total lithium by end use in 2017. These technologies are often deployed to improve environmental sustainability, yet the environmental effects and sustainabil…
The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change
The food and agriculture sectors contribute significantly to climate change, but are also particularly vulnerable to its effects. Industrial ecology has robustly addressed these sectors’ contributions to climate change, but not their vulnerability to climate change. Climate change vulnerability must be addressed through development of climate change adaptation and resiliency strategies. However, there is a fundamental tension between the primary …
Understanding the future of lithium
An array of emerging technologies, from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems, relies on large‐format lithium ion batteries (LIBs). LIBs are a critical enabler of clean energy technologies commonly associated with air pollution and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. However, LIBs require lithium, and expanding the supply of lithium requires new lithium production capacity, which, in turn, changes the environmental impacts associated wi…
A taxonomy of circular economy indicators
Closing the loop on platinum from catalytic converters
In this study, material flow analysis (MFA) is applied to quantify and reduce the obstacles for advancing a circular economy (CE) of platinum (Pt) from catalytic converters (CC) in Europe. First, the value chain and related stakeholders are mapped out in an MFA‐like model to both facilitate the assessment of stocks and flows, and get a comprehensive view of potential action levers and resources to close‐the‐loop. Then, through the cross analysis …
The history and current applications of the circular economy concept
Life Cycle Environmental and Natural Resource Implications of Energy Efficiency Technologies
Life Cycle–based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part I
This first article of a two‐article series describes a framework and life cycle–based model for typical almond orchard production systems for California, where more than 80% of commercial almonds on the world market are produced. The comprehensive, multiyear, life cycle–based model includes orchard establishment and removal; field operations and inputs; emissions from orchard soils; and transport and utilization of co‐products. These processes ar…
Life Cycle–based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part II
This is the second part of a two‐article series examining California almond production. The part I article describes development of the analytical framework and life cycle–based model and presents typical energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for California almonds. This part II article builds on this by exploring uncertainty in the life cycle model through sensitivity and scenario analysis, and by examining temporary carbon storage in th…
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through strategic management of highway pavement roughness
On-road vehicle use is responsible for about a quarter of US annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Changes in vehicles, travel behavior and fuel are likely required to meet long-term climate change mitigation goals, but may require a long time horizon to deploy. This research examines a near-term opportunity: management of pavement network roughness. Maintenance and rehabilitation treatments can make pavements smoother and reduce vehicle rolling…
Comparing environmental impacts of regional and national-scale food supply chains
Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Impacts of Using an Algal Turf Scrubber to Treat Dairy Wastewater
Using algae to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce energy products has potential environmental and economic benefits. This study evaluates the life cycle energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, eutrophication potential, and cost impacts of incorporating an algal turf scrubber (ATS) into a treatment process for dairy wastewater. A life cycle inventory and cost model was developed to simulate an ATS treatment system where harvested algae wo…
Wind Power as a Case Study
Meta‐analyses of life cycle assessments (LCAs) have become increasingly important in the context of renewable energy technologies and the decisions and policies that influence their adoption. However, a lack of transparency in reporting modeling assumptions, data, and results precludes normalizing across incommensurate system boundaries or key assumptions. This normalization step is critical for conducting valid meta‐analyses. Thus it is necessar…
Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum
The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO…
Megaquarry versus decentralized mineral production
Dynamic Modeling of In‐Use Cement Stocks in the United States
A dynamic substance‐flow model is developed to characterize the stocks and flows of cement utilized during the 20th century in the United States, using the generic cement life cycle as a systems boundary. The motivation for estimating historical inventories of cement stocks and flows is to provide accurate estimates of contemporary cement in‐use stocks in U.S. infrastructure and future discards to relevant stakeholders in U.S. infrastructure, suc…
What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California
Clean energy technologies provide global benefits through climate mitigation and many local environmental benefits for consumers. However, the supply chains that produce them inevitably impose some environmental burden on the communities where they operate. To align with the principles of environmental justice, the burdens and benefits of clean energy supply chains should be distributed equitably, with decision-making processes that empower local…
Comparing environmental impacts of regional and national-scale food supply chains
Dynamic Modeling of In‐Use Cement Stocks in the United States
A dynamic substance‐flow model is developed to characterize the stocks and flows of cement utilized during the 20th century in the United States, using the generic cement life cycle as a systems boundary. The motivation for estimating historical inventories of cement stocks and flows is to provide accurate estimates of contemporary cement in‐use stocks in U.S. infrastructure and future discards to relevant stakeholders in U.S. infrastructure, suc…
Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum
The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO…
Megaquarry versus decentralized mineral production
Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Impacts of Using an Algal Turf Scrubber to Treat Dairy Wastewater
Using algae to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce energy products has potential environmental and economic benefits. This study evaluates the life cycle energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, eutrophication potential, and cost impacts of incorporating an algal turf scrubber (ATS) into a treatment process for dairy wastewater. A life cycle inventory and cost model was developed to simulate an ATS treatment system where harvested algae wo…
Wind Power as a Case Study
Meta‐analyses of life cycle assessments (LCAs) have become increasingly important in the context of renewable energy technologies and the decisions and policies that influence their adoption. However, a lack of transparency in reporting modeling assumptions, data, and results precludes normalizing across incommensurate system boundaries or key assumptions. This normalization step is critical for conducting valid meta‐analyses. Thus it is necessar…
Comparing environmental impacts of regional and national-scale food supply chains
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through strategic management of highway pavement roughness
On-road vehicle use is responsible for about a quarter of US annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Changes in vehicles, travel behavior and fuel are likely required to meet long-term climate change mitigation goals, but may require a long time horizon to deploy. This research examines a near-term opportunity: management of pavement network roughness. Maintenance and rehabilitation treatments can make pavements smoother and reduce vehicle rolling…
Life Cycle–based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part I
This first article of a two‐article series describes a framework and life cycle–based model for typical almond orchard production systems for California, where more than 80% of commercial almonds on the world market are produced. The comprehensive, multiyear, life cycle–based model includes orchard establishment and removal; field operations and inputs; emissions from orchard soils; and transport and utilization of co‐products. These processes ar…
Life Cycle–based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part II
This is the second part of a two‐article series examining California almond production. The part I article describes development of the analytical framework and life cycle–based model and presents typical energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for California almonds. This part II article builds on this by exploring uncertainty in the life cycle model through sensitivity and scenario analysis, and by examining temporary carbon storage in th…
Life Cycle Environmental and Natural Resource Implications of Energy Efficiency Technologies
The history and current applications of the circular economy concept
A taxonomy of circular economy indicators
Closing the loop on platinum from catalytic converters
In this study, material flow analysis (MFA) is applied to quantify and reduce the obstacles for advancing a circular economy (CE) of platinum (Pt) from catalytic converters (CC) in Europe. First, the value chain and related stakeholders are mapped out in an MFA‐like model to both facilitate the assessment of stocks and flows, and get a comprehensive view of potential action levers and resources to close‐the‐loop. Then, through the cross analysis …
Understanding the future of lithium
Lithium is a critical energy material in part due to an array of emerging technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems that rely on large‐format lithium ion batteries. Recent growth in demand for lithium is primarily from increased use in batteries, which comprised 46% of total lithium by end use in 2017. These technologies are often deployed to improve environmental sustainability, yet the environmental effects and sustainabil…
The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change
The food and agriculture sectors contribute significantly to climate change, but are also particularly vulnerable to its effects. Industrial ecology has robustly addressed these sectors’ contributions to climate change, but not their vulnerability to climate change. Climate change vulnerability must be addressed through development of climate change adaptation and resiliency strategies. However, there is a fundamental tension between the primary …
Understanding the future of lithium
An array of emerging technologies, from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems, relies on large‐format lithium ion batteries (LIBs). LIBs are a critical enabler of clean energy technologies commonly associated with air pollution and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. However, LIBs require lithium, and expanding the supply of lithium requires new lithium production capacity, which, in turn, changes the environmental impacts associated wi…
Should high‐cobalt EV batteries be repurposed? Using LCA to assess the impact of technological innovation on the waste hierarchy
Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) are a key technology in decarbonizing the transportation and electricity sectors, yet the use of critical materials, such as cobalt, nickel, and lithium, lead to environmental and social impacts. Reusing, repurposing, and recycling mitigate battery impacts by extending their lifespan and reducing reliance on virgin materials. Innovation that reduces demand for these problematic materials and increases battery efficien…
What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California
Clean energy technologies provide global benefits through climate mitigation and many local environmental benefits for consumers. However, the supply chains that produce them inevitably impose some environmental burden on the communities where they operate. To align with the principles of environmental justice, the burdens and benefits of clean energy supply chains should be distributed equitably, with decision-making processes that empower local…
Trade, extended use, and end of life in the Global South
The environmental impacts of exporting second‐hand electric vehicles (SH EVs) to lower‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are increasingly relevant as electric vehicle (EV) adoption rises in high‐income countries. This study uses a regionally expanded life cycle assessment model to evaluate the lifecycle environmental performance of SH EV exports, their net benefits to LMICs, and their role in the global transition to electric mobility. The mod…
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction
Life cycle performance and carbon handprint of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles
Electrifying the transport sector will require manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries and extensive mining of their embedded critical minerals, like lithium. Research has quantified the future demand for lithium-ion batteries, their constituent materials and their environmental impacts, but typically without contextualizing these impacts within the benefits of fleet-level decarbonization. We conduct a life cycle assessment of the United States pr…
Environmental Science (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Engineering (14 works) · Life-cycle assessment (11 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (10 works) · Greenhouse gas (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Environmental economics (8 works) · Ecology (7 works)