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6428
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8830
National Ranking
411

Overview

Nathan Pelletier is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a broad range of subfields including Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Food Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics related to sustainability and environmental impact within agricultural and food systems. Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Pelletier has contributed to several research papers with significant citation counts. Notable recent publications include:

  • Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security, 2021, published in One Earth
  • Farm-level decision support tools: A review of methodological choices and their consistency with principles of sustainability assessment, 2020, published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Waste valorization technology options for the egg and broiler industries: A review and recommendations, 2020, published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Allocation methods in life cycle assessments (LCAs) of agri-food co-products and food waste valorization systems: Systematic review and recommendations, 2023, published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Design considerations for net zero energy buildings for intensive, confined poultry production: A review of current insights, knowledge gaps, and future directions, 2021, published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

The scientist frequently publishes in journals that focus on cleaner production, sustainability, and resource conservation. The main publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling

Pelletier collaborates often with several co-authors, reflecting a network of scholarly interaction. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Vivek Arulnathan
  • Ian Turner
  • Nicole Bamber
  • Mohammad Davoud Heidari
  • Florian Grassauer

Best Publications

  • Comparative life cycle environmental impacts of three beef production strategies in the Upper Midwestern United States

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  • Forecasting potential global environmental costs of livestock production 2000–2050

    Nathan Pelletier;Peter Tyedmers

  • Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems

    Nathan Pelletier;Eric Audsley;Sonja Brodt;Tara Garnett

  • Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems

    Nathan Pelletier;Peter Tyedmers;Ulf Sonesson;Astrid Scholz

  • Feeding farmed salmon: Is organic better?

    N. Pelletier;P. Tyedmers

  • Environmental performance in the US broiler poultry sector: Life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas, ozone depleting, acidifying and eutrophying emissions

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  • Impact categories for life cycle assessment research of seafood production systems: Review and prospectus

    Nathan L. Pelletier;Nathan W. Ayer;Peter H. Tyedmers;Sarah A. Kruse

  • Scenario Modeling Potential Eco-Efficiency Gains from a Transition to Organic Agriculture: Life Cycle Perspectives on Canadian Canola, Corn, Soy, and Wheat Production

    N. Pelletier;N. Arsenault;P. Tyedmers

  • Comparing sources and analysis of uncertainty in consequential and attributional life cycle assessment: review of current practice and recommendations

    Nicole Bamber;Ian Turner;Vivek Arulnathan;Yang Li

  • Co-Product Allocation in Life Cycle Assessments of Seafood Production Systems: Review of Problems and Strategies

    Nathan W. Ayer;Peter H. Tyedmers;Nathan L. Pelletier;Ulf Sonesson

  • 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

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Frozen Tilapia Fillets From Indonesian Lake‐Based and Pond‐Based Intensive Aquaculture Systems

    Nathan Pelletier;Peter Tyedmers

  • Allocation solutions for secondary material production and end of life recovery: Proposals for product policy initiatives

    K. Allacker;F. Mathieux;S. Manfredi;N. Pelletier

  • Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security

    Patrik John Gustav Henriksson;Patrik John Gustav Henriksson;Patrik John Gustav Henriksson;Max Troell;Max Troell;Lauren Katherine Banks;Lauren Katherine Banks;Ben Belton;Ben Belton

  • An Ecological Economic Critique of the Use of Market Information in Life Cycle Assessment Research

    Nathan Pelletier;Peter Tyedmers

  • Life Cycle Considerations for Improving Sustainability Assessments in Seafood Awareness Campaigns

    Nathan Pelletier;Peter Tyedmers

  • Life cycle assessment of high- and low-profitability commodity and deep-bedded niche swine production systems in the Upper Midwestern United States

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  • Comparative environmental performance of artisanal and commercial feed use in Peruvian freshwater aquaculture

    Angel Avadí;Nathan Pelletier;Joël Aubin;Stéphane Ralite

  • Nutritional Attributes, Substitutability, Scalability, and Environmental Intensity of an Illustrative Subset of Current and Future Protein Sources for Aquaculture Feeds: Joint Consideration of Potential Synergies and Trade-offs

    Nathan Pelletier;Dane H. Klinger;Neil A. Sims;Janice Renee Yoshioka

  • The European Commission Organisation Environmental Footprint method: comparison with other methods, and rationales for key requirements

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  • Life cycle assessment of Canadian egg products, with differentiation by hen housing system type

    Nathan Pelletier

  • Farm-level decision support tools: A review of methodological choices and their consistency with principles of sustainability assessment

    Vivek Arulnathan;Mohammad Davoud Heidari;Maurice Doyon;Eric Li

  • Waste valorization technology options for the egg and broiler industries: A review and recommendations

    Farah Kanani;Mohammad Davoud Heidari;Brandon H. Gilroyed;Nathan Pelletier

  • Design considerations for net zero energy buildings for intensive, confined poultry production: A review of current insights, knowledge gaps, and future directions

    Y. Li;V. Arulnathan;M.D. Heidari;N. Pelletier

  • Proposed Local Ecological Impact Categories and Indicators for Life Cycle Assessment of Aquaculture A Salmon Aquaculture Case Study

    Jennifer S. Ford;Nathan L. Pelletier;Friederike Ziegler;Astrid J. Scholz

  • Social Sustainability in Trade and Development Policy

    Nathan Pelletier;Eda Ustaoglu;Catherine Benoit;Greg Norris

  • Scenarios for shale gas development and their related land use impacts in the Baltic Basin, Northern Poland

    Claudia Baranzelli;Ine Vandecasteele;Ricardo Ribeiro Barranco;Ines Mari i Rivero

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Tyedmers
Peter Tyedmers Dalhousie University
Max Troell
Max Troell Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Melanie D. Jones
Melanie D. Jones University of British Columbia
Ulf Sonesson
Ulf Sonesson RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Miguel Brandão
Miguel Brandão Royal Institute of Technology
John N. Kittinger
John N. Kittinger Arizona State University
Tina M. Widowski
Tina M. Widowski University of Guelph

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