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Miguel Brandão is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a strong emphasis on Environmental Engineering as a subfield. Additional subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Ecology.

The topics that define Brandão's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Biofuel production and bioconversion, Bioenergy crop production and management, and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques.

Brandão has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Annette Cowie, Alessandra Zamagni, Patrick Lamers, Llorenç Milà i Canals, and Roland Clift.

Their recent notable publications include the following:

  • Attributional & Consequential Life Cycle Assessment: Definitions, Conceptual Characteristics and Modelling Restrictions (2021, Sustainability)
  • Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy (2021, GCB Bioenergy)
  • Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals (2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews)
  • On quantifying sources of uncertainty in the carbon footprint of biofuels: crop/feedstock, LCA modelling approach, land-use change, and GHG metrics (2022, Biofuel Research Journal)
  • System Expansion and Substitution in LCA: A Lost Opportunity of ISO 14044 Amendment 2 (2021, Frontiers in Sustainability)

Brandão publishes frequently in a number of journals, notably Frontiers in Climate, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Sustainability, Frontiers in Sustainability, and GCB Bioenergy.

In addition to journal articles, Brandão has contributed to book publications, including a book titled Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • UNEP-SETAC guideline on global land use impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services in LCA

    Thomas Koellner;Laura de Baan;Tabea Beck;Miguel Brandão

  • A Review of the Environmental Impacts of Biobased Materials

    Martin Weiss;Juliane Haufe;Michael Carus;Miguel Brandão

  • Key issues and options in accounting for carbon sequestration and temporary storage in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting

    Miguel Brandao;Annie Levasseur;Miko U. F. Kirschbaum;Bo P. Weidema

  • Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs

    Davy Vanham;Adrian Leip;Alessandro Galli;Thomas Kastner

  • Soil Organic Carbon Changes in the Cultivation of Energy Crops: Implications for GHG Balances and Soil Quality for Use in LCA

    Miguel Brandão;Llorenç Milà i Canals;Roland Clift

  • Monetary valuation in Life Cycle Assessment: a review

    Massimo Pizzol;Bo Pedersen Weidema;Miguel Brandão;Philippe Osset

  • Assessing resource depletion in LCA: a review of methods and methodological issues

    Manfred Klinglmair;Serenella Sala;Miguel Brandão

  • A Framework for Modelling Indirect Land Use Changes in Life Cycle Assessment

    Jannick Højrup Schmidt;Bo Pedersen Weidema;Miguel Brandão

  • Climatic impact of land use in LCA—carbon transfers between vegetation/soil and air

    Ruedi Müller-Wenk;Miguel Brandão

  • Global characterisation factors to assess land use impacts on biotic production

    Miguel Brandão;Llorenç Milà i Canals

  • Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale

    Thomas Koellner;Laura de Baan;Tabea Beck;Miguel Brandão

  • Rationales for and limitations of preferred solutions for multi-functionality problems in LCA: is increased consistency possible?

    Nathan Pelletier;Fulvio Ardente;Miguel Brandão;Camillo De Camillis

  • On quantifying sources of uncertainty in the carbon footprint of biofuels: crop/feedstock, LCA modelling approach, land-use change, and GHG metrics

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

    Thomas Schaubroeck;Simon Schaubroeck;Reinout Heijungs;Alessandra Zamagni

  • Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals

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  • Assessing temporary carbon sequestration and storage projects through land use, land-use change and forestry: comparison of dynamic life cycle assessment with ton-year approaches

    Annie Levasseur;Pascal Lesage;Manuele Margni;Miguel Brandão

  • Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) does not necessarily yield more accurate results than process-based LCA

    Yi Yang;Reinout Heijungs;Reinout Heijungs;Miguel Brandão

  • Soil Processes and Functions in Critical Zone Observatories: Hypotheses and Experimental Design

    Steven Banwart;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Jaap Bloem;Winfried Blum

  • Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy

    Annette L. Cowie;Göran Berndes;Niclas Scott Bentsen;Miguel Brandão

  • Valuing temporary carbon storage

    Annie Levasseur;Miguel Brandão;Pascal Lesage;Manuele Margni

  • The Use of Life Cycle Assessment in the Support of Robust (Climate) Policy Making: Comment on "Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate-Change Mitigation ..."

    Miguel Brandão;Roland Clift;Annette Cowie;Suzie Greenhalgh

  • Quantifying the climate effects of bioenergy – Choice of reference system

    Kati Koponen;Sampo Soimakallio;Keith L. Kline;Annette Cowie

  • Biochar use for climate-change mitigation in rice cropping systems

    Ali Mohammadi;Annette Cowie;Thi Lan Anh Mai;Ruy Anaya de la Rosa

  • Status and prospects for renewable energy using wood pellets from the southeastern United States

    Virginia H. Dale;Keith L. Kline;Esther S. Parish;Annette L. Cowie

  • Attributional life cycle assessment: is a land-use baseline necessary?

    Sampo Soimakallio;Annette Cowie;Miguel Brandão;Göran Finnveden

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Cowie
Annette Cowie University of New England
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Roland Clift
Roland Clift University of Surrey
Bo Pedersen Weidema
Bo Pedersen Weidema Aalborg University
Llorenç Milà i Canals
Llorenç Milà i Canals United Nations Environment Programme, Paris
Göran Finnveden
Göran Finnveden Royal Institute of Technology
Manuele Margni
Manuele Margni Polytechnique Montréal
Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Enrico Benetto
Enrico Benetto Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Göran Berndes
Göran Berndes Chalmers University of Technology

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