Markus Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4349702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7670-2584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, Aware2.0
Supported by the Life Cycle Initiative, in 2018, the Water Use in Life Cycle Assessment (WULCA) working group published Available Water Remaining (AWARE), a consensus‐based method for water scarcity impact assessment. This article presents AWARE2.0, an update based on new data and an improved calculation process and recommended by the authors of the original AWARE publication. Water availability for 1990–2019 and the global water consumption inve…
Evolution of global water footprints of crop production in 1990–2019
Crop production has the largest water footprint (WF) of all economic sectors and ranks as a leading cause of water scarcity. Despite this, our understanding of historical changes in global WFs of crops remains limited. In this study, we analyse the recently published dataset on green and blue WFs of 175 individual crops in 1990–2019. We explore the main changes in unit WFs (expressed in m 3 t −1 yr −1 ) and WFs of production (m 3 yr −1 ) and conn…
Domestic water versus imported virtual blue water for agricultural production: A comparison based on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions
The supply of water, food, and energy in our global economy is highly interlinked. Virtual blue water embedded into internationally traded food crops has therefore been extensively researched in recent years. This study focuses on the often neglected energy needed to supply this blue irrigation water. It provides a globally applicable and spatially explicit approach to the watershed level for water source specific quantification of energy consump…
Groundwater-dependent ecosystems at risk – global hotspot analysis and implications
Many land-based ecosystems are dependent on groundwater and could be threatened by human groundwater abstraction. One key challenge for the description of associated impacts is the initial localisation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs). This usually requires a mixture of extensive site-specific data collection and the use of geospatial datasets and remote sensing techniques. To date, no study has succeeded in identifying different types …
Finding Common Ground: Halle Pastors in North America and Their Shifting Stance Towards a Transnational Mission to Native Americans, 1742–1807
While Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg and his pastor colleagues from Halle have gone down in history for their pioneering work – organizing the Lutheran Church on North American soil – they are not known for missionary projects to Native Americans. This article examines how things changed after a second generation of Halle pastors arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1760s. It was, above all, down to Mühlenberg’s later son-in-law Johann Christoph Kunze, w…
Germany's global water consumption under consideration of the local safe operating spaces of watersheds worldwide
Germany is one of the five largest consumer markets in the world. Given that both supply chains and water consumption in agriculture, industry and underlying resource extraction and energy generation are globally intertwined, consumption in Germany undeniably has a major impact on global water consumption. This paper aims to determine Germany's global consumption-induced water consumption (hereinafter water consumption), with a particular focus o…
Chymase inhibition: A key factor in the anti-inflammatory activity of ethanolic extracts and spilanthol isolated from Acmella oleracea
Raw material criticality assessment as a complement to environmental life cycle assessment: Examining methods for product‐level supply risk assessment
The diversity of raw materials used in modern products, compounded by the risk of supply disruptions—due to uneven geological distribution of resources, along with socioeconomic factors like production concentration and political (in)stability of raw material producing countries—has drawn attention to the subject of raw material “criticality.” In this article, we review the state of the art regarding the integration of criticality assessment, her…
Life Cycle Based CO 2 Emission Credits: Options for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Current Tailpipe Emissions Regulation in the Automotive Industry
The current focus on the use phase in automotive carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) legislation bares a risk of unintended consequences as often reductions in the use phase come along with increasing CO 2 emissions in other life cycle (LC) phases. This study presents voluntary policy options in form of LC‐based CO 2 emission credits. They were developed by desk research considering existing applications of LCA in practice (e.g., environmental reports) and fe…
Methodological Challenges in Volumetric and Impact‐Oriented Water Footprints
This work identifies shortcomings in water footprinting and discusses whether the water footprint should be a volumetric or impact‐oriented index. A key challenge is the current definition of water consumption according to which evaporated water is regarded as lost for the originating watershed per se. Continental evaporation recycling rates of up to 100% within short time and length scales show that this definition is not generally valid. Also, …
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Methodological Challenges in Volumetric and Impact‐Oriented Water Footprints
This work identifies shortcomings in water footprinting and discusses whether the water footprint should be a volumetric or impact‐oriented index. A key challenge is the current definition of water consumption according to which evaporated water is regarded as lost for the originating watershed per se. Continental evaporation recycling rates of up to 100% within short time and length scales show that this definition is not generally valid. Also, …
Life Cycle Based CO 2 Emission Credits: Options for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Current Tailpipe Emissions Regulation in the Automotive Industry
The current focus on the use phase in automotive carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) legislation bares a risk of unintended consequences as often reductions in the use phase come along with increasing CO 2 emissions in other life cycle (LC) phases. This study presents voluntary policy options in form of LC‐based CO 2 emission credits. They were developed by desk research considering existing applications of LCA in practice (e.g., environmental reports) and fe…
Raw material criticality assessment as a complement to environmental life cycle assessment: Examining methods for product‐level supply risk assessment
The diversity of raw materials used in modern products, compounded by the risk of supply disruptions—due to uneven geological distribution of resources, along with socioeconomic factors like production concentration and political (in)stability of raw material producing countries—has drawn attention to the subject of raw material “criticality.” In this article, we review the state of the art regarding the integration of criticality assessment, her…
Germany's global water consumption under consideration of the local safe operating spaces of watersheds worldwide
Germany is one of the five largest consumer markets in the world. Given that both supply chains and water consumption in agriculture, industry and underlying resource extraction and energy generation are globally intertwined, consumption in Germany undeniably has a major impact on global water consumption. This paper aims to determine Germany's global consumption-induced water consumption (hereinafter water consumption), with a particular focus o…
Chymase inhibition: A key factor in the anti-inflammatory activity of ethanolic extracts and spilanthol isolated from Acmella oleracea
Finding Common Ground: Halle Pastors in North America and Their Shifting Stance Towards a Transnational Mission to Native Americans, 1742–1807
While Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg and his pastor colleagues from Halle have gone down in history for their pioneering work – organizing the Lutheran Church on North American soil – they are not known for missionary projects to Native Americans. This article examines how things changed after a second generation of Halle pastors arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1760s. It was, above all, down to Mühlenberg’s later son-in-law Johann Christoph Kunze, w…
Domestic water versus imported virtual blue water for agricultural production: A comparison based on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions
The supply of water, food, and energy in our global economy is highly interlinked. Virtual blue water embedded into internationally traded food crops has therefore been extensively researched in recent years. This study focuses on the often neglected energy needed to supply this blue irrigation water. It provides a globally applicable and spatially explicit approach to the watershed level for water source specific quantification of energy consump…
Groundwater-dependent ecosystems at risk – global hotspot analysis and implications
Many land-based ecosystems are dependent on groundwater and could be threatened by human groundwater abstraction. One key challenge for the description of associated impacts is the initial localisation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs). This usually requires a mixture of extensive site-specific data collection and the use of geospatial datasets and remote sensing techniques. To date, no study has succeeded in identifying different types …
Evolution of global water footprints of crop production in 1990–2019
Crop production has the largest water footprint (WF) of all economic sectors and ranks as a leading cause of water scarcity. Despite this, our understanding of historical changes in global WFs of crops remains limited. In this study, we analyse the recently published dataset on green and blue WFs of 175 individual crops in 1990–2019. We explore the main changes in unit WFs (expressed in m 3 t −1 yr −1 ) and WFs of production (m 3 yr −1 ) and conn…
The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, Aware2.0
Supported by the Life Cycle Initiative, in 2018, the Water Use in Life Cycle Assessment (WULCA) working group published Available Water Remaining (AWARE), a consensus‐based method for water scarcity impact assessment. This article presents AWARE2.0, an update based on new data and an improved calculation process and recommended by the authors of the original AWARE publication. Water availability for 1990–2019 and the global water consumption inve…
Environmental Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Natural resource economics (4 works) · Water scarcity (4 works) · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Environmental economics (3 works)