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Overview

Enrico Benetto is affiliated with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology in Luxembourg and focuses on research within the fields of Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Building and Construction.

The main topics explored in Benetto's research include Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Sustainable Building Design and Assessment, and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Benetto has contributed to multiple publication venues with a concentration in:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Frontiers in Sustainability
  • Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling

Their recent scholarly papers cover a range of issues primarily focused on sustainability, life cycle assessment, and environmental frameworks:

  • Measuring the sustainability of investment funds: A critical review of methods and frameworks in sustainable finance, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Attributional & Consequential Life Cycle Assessment: Definitions, Conceptual Characteristics and Modelling Restrictions, 2021, Sustainability
  • Addressing temporal considerations in life cycle assessment, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A framework using BIM and digital twins in facilitating LCSA for buildings, 2023, Journal of Building Engineering

Frequent coauthors with whom Benetto has collaborated include:

  • Thomas Schaubroeck
  • Thomas Gibon
  • Elorri Igos
  • I. Popescu
  • Paul Baustert

Benetto's research integrates methodologies from several scientific domains to address complex sustainability challenges through quantitative assessments such as life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainable finance frameworks. The broad interdisciplinary approach spans from technical environmental engineering processes to strategic economic modeling and sustainable management practices within industries and built environments.

Best Publications

  • How to treat uncertainties in life cycle assessment studies

    Elorri Igos;Enrico Benetto;Rodolphe Meyer;Paul Baustert

  • A comprehensive review of carbon footprint analysis as an extended environmental indicator in the wine sector

    Benedetto Rugani;Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Graziella Benedetto;Enrico Benetto

  • Life Cycle Assessment of biogas production by monofermentation of energy crops and injection into the natural gas grid

    Colin Jury;Enrico Benetto;Daniel Koster;Bianca Schmitt

  • Life Cycle Assessment of building stocks from urban to transnational scales: A review

    Alessio Mastrucci;Antonino Marvuglia;Ulrich Leopold;Enrico Benetto

  • A review of urban metabolism studies to identify key methodological choices for future harmonization and implementation

    Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre;Benedetto Rugani;Sébastien Lasvaux;Adélaïde Mailhac

  • Measuring the sustainability of investment funds: A critical review of methods and frameworks in sustainable finance

    Ioana-Stefania Popescu;Claudia Hitaj;Enrico Benetto

  • Geospatial characterization of building material stocks for the life cycle assessment of end-of-life scenarios at the urban scale

    Alessio Mastrucci;Antonino Marvuglia;Emil Popovici;Ulrich Leopold

  • Life cycle assessment of ecological sanitation system for small-scale wastewater treatment.

    Enrico Benetto;Diep Nguyen;Torben Lohmann;Bianca Schmitt

  • Improvements to Emergy evaluations by using Life Cycle Assessment.

    Benedetto Rugani;Enrico Benetto

  • Environmental assessment of digestate treatment technologies using LCA methodology.

    Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Katarzyna Golkowska;Viooltje Lebuf;Céline Vaneeckhaute

  • Elimination of pharmaceutical residues in biologically pre-treated hospital wastewater using advanced UV irradiation technology: a comparative assessment.

    C. Köhler;S. Venditti;E. Igos;K. Klepiszewski

  • Attributional & consequential life cycle assessment : Definitions, conceptual characteristics and modelling restrictions

    Thomas Schaubroeck;Simon Schaubroeck;Reinout Heijungs;Alessandra Zamagni

  • Applying consequential LCA to support energy policy: Land use change effects of bioenergy production

    Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Antonino Marvuglia;Sameer Rege;Enrico Benetto

  • Tapping carbon footprint variations in the European wine sector

    Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Benedetto Rugani;Enrico Benetto

  • Integrating emergy into LCA: Potential added value and lingering obstacles

    Marco Raugei;Marco Raugei;Marco Raugei;Benedetto Rugani;Enrico Benetto;Wesley W. Ingwersen

  • Modelling approaches for consequential life-cycle assessment (C-LCA) of bioenergy: Critical review and proposed framework for biogas production

    Antonino Marvuglia;Enrico Benetto;Sameer Rege;Colin Jury

  • Addressing temporal considerations in life cycle assessment

    Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre;Ariane Christine Albers;Arnaud Helias;Ligia Tiruta-Barna

  • Integrating fuzzy multicriteria analysis and uncertainty evaluation in life cycle assessment

    Enrico Benetto;Christiane Dujet;Patrick Rousseaux

  • Combination of equilibrium models and hybrid life cycle-input–output analysis to predict the environmental impacts of energy policy scenarios

    Elorri Igos;Benedetto Rugani;Sameer Rege;Enrico Benetto

  • Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies : From Science to Innovation

    Enrico Benetto;Kilian Gericke;Mélanie Guiton

  • On the feasibility of using emergy analysis as a source of benchmarking criteria through data envelopment analysis: A case study for wind energy

    Diego Iribarren;Ian Vázquez-Rowe;Benedetto Rugani;Enrico Benetto

  • An input–output based framework to evaluate human labour in life cycle assessment

    Benedetto Rugani;Daryna Panasiuk;Enrico Benetto

  • Life Cycle Assessment of water treatment: what is the contribution of infrastructure and operation at unit process level?

    Elorri Igos;Alice Dalle;Ligia Tiruta-Barna;Enrico Benetto

  • Assessment of Life Cycle Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Promise, Problems, and Prospects

    Benoit Othoniel;Benedetto Rugani;Reinout Heijungs;Enrico Benetto

  • Is it better to remove pharmaceuticals in decentralized or conventional wastewater treatment plants? A life cycle assessment comparison

    Elorri Igos;Enrico Benetto;Silvia Venditti;Christian Kohler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Vázquez-Rowe
Ian Vázquez-Rowe Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Florin Capitanescu
Florin Capitanescu Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Laurent Drouet
Laurent Drouet European Institute
Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Miguel Brandão
Miguel Brandão Royal Institute of Technology
Marco Raugei
Marco Raugei Oxford Brookes University
Jeroen B. Guinée
Jeroen B. Guinée Leiden University
Diego Iribarren
Diego Iribarren Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Erik Meers
Erik Meers Ghent University

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