Masaharu Motoshita(1), Kamrul Islam(1), Markus Berger(2), Anne-Marie Boulay(3), Stephan Pfister(4), Georg Seitfudem(3), Francesca Verones(5), Matthias inkbeiner(6)
1. AIST, Japan,
2. Univ. Twente, Netherlands,
3. CIRAIG, Canada,
4. ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
5. NTNU, Norway, 6 TU Berlin, Germany
RESCUE is a new ecosystem-specific midpoint indicator for LCAbased water footprint.
- Stress-weighted water volume: potential stress on aquatic ecosystems
- Deprived water volume: the magnitude of deprived water for ecosystems
RESCUE and AWARE are complementary.
- RESCUE can assess the current potential impacts on aquatic
ecosystem.
- AWARE can assess the future pressure where not yet depriving of
ecosystem water requirement.
Temporal variation of the CFs is relevant at some watersheds.
- Inventory needs to be discriminated at monthly level.