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Francesco Cherubini is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Pollution, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their work addresses key topics related to Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Energy and Environment Impacts, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Biofuel Production and Bioconversion.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesco Cherubini include:

  • Trading-off ecosystem services for better ecological restoration: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Prioritizing sustainable development goals and linking them to ecosystem services: A global expert's knowledge evaluation, 2020, Geography and Sustainability
  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era, 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Co-benefits and trade-offs of agroforestry for climate change mitigation and other sustainability goals in West Africa, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • The impact of interventions in the global land and agri-food sectors on Nature's Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, Global Change Biology

They frequently publish in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geography and Sustainability, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Global Ecology and Conservation.

Collaborations form an important aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Xiangping Hu, Wenwu Zhao, Bo Huang, Otávio Cavalett, and Marcos Djun Barbosa Watanabe.

Best Publications

  • The biorefinery concept: Using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals

    Francesco Cherubini

  • Energy- and greenhouse gas-based LCA of biofuel and bioenergy systems: Key issues, ranges and recommendations

    Francesco Cherubini;Neil David Bird;Annette Cowie;Gerfried Jungmeier

  • Life cycle assessment of bioenergy systems: state of the art and future challenges.

    Francesco Cherubini;Anders Hammer Strømman

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • CO2 emissions from biomass combustion for bioenergy: atmospheric decay and contribution to global warming

    Francesco Cherubini;Glen Philip Peters;Terje Koren Berntsen;Anders Hammer Strømman

  • Crop residues as raw materials for biorefinery systems – A LCA case study

    Francesco Cherubini;Sergio Ulgiati

  • LCA of a biorefinery concept producing bioethanol, bioenergy, and chemicals from switchgrass

    Francesco Cherubini;Gerfried Jungmeier

  • Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

    Pete Smith;Katherine Calvin;Johnson Nkem;Donovan Campbell

  • GHG balances of bioenergy systems – Overview of key steps in the production chain and methodological concerns

    Francesco Cherubini

  • Chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass: opportunities, perspectives, and potential of biorefinery systems.

    Francesco Cherubini;Anders H. Strømman

  • Global warming potential of carbon dioxide emissions from biomass stored in the anthroposphere and used for bioenergy at end of life.

    Geoffrey Guest;Francesco Cherubini;Anders H. Strømman

  • Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities.

    Ryan M. Bright;Ryan M. Bright;Kaiguang Zhao;Robert B. Jackson;Francesco Cherubini

  • Influence of allocation methods on the environmental performance of biorefinery products—A case study

    Francesco Cherubini;Anders Hammer Strømman;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Life cycle assessment of urban waste management: energy performances and environmental impacts. The case of Rome, Italy.

    Francesco Cherubini;Silvia Bargigli;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Climate impacts of bioenergy: Inclusion of carbon cycle and albedo dynamics in life cycle impact assessment

    Ryan M. Bright;Francesco Cherubini;Anders H. Strømman

  • Site-specific global warming potentials of biogenic CO2 for bioenergy: contributions from carbon fluxes and albedo dynamics

    Francesco Cherubini;Ryan M. Bright;Anders Hammer Strømman

  • LCA of magnesium production Technological overview and worldwide estimation of environmental burdens

    Francesco Cherubini;Marco Raugei;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Environmental driving forces of urban growth and development: An emergy-based assessment of the city of Rome, Italy

    Marco Ascione;Luigi Campanella;Francesco Cherubini;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Trading-off ecosystem services for better ecological restoration: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

    Qiang Feng;Qiang Feng;Wenwu Zhao;Xiangping Hu;Yue Liu

  • Enhancing life cycle impact assessment from climate science: Review of recent findings and recommendations for application to LCA

    Annie Levasseur;Otávio Cavalett;Jan S. Fuglestvedt;Thomas Gasser;Thomas Gasser

  • Prioritizing sustainable development goals and linking them to ecosystem services: A global expert's knowledge evaluation

    Siqi Yang;Wenwu Zhao;Yanxu Liu;Francesco Cherubini

  • Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use

    Olivier Jolliet;Assumpció Antón;Anne-Marie Boulay;Anne-Marie Boulay;Francesco Cherubini

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Hammer Strømman
Anders Hammer Strømman Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sergio Ulgiati
Sergio Ulgiati Parthenope University of Naples
Wenwu Zhao
Wenwu Zhao Beijing Normal University
Marco Raugei
Marco Raugei Oxford Brookes University
Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Annette Cowie
Annette Cowie University of New England
Rasmus Astrup
Rasmus Astrup Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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