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Overview

Serenella Sala is affiliated with the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with an emphasis on several interconnected subfields including environmental engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, strategy and management, building and construction, and food science.

The topics Serenella Sala has extensively explored include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment

Their publication record reveals a pattern of involvement with several key journals in the field, including:

  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainable Production and Consumption

Among notable recent papers they have authored are:

  • "The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades", 2021, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • "Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries", 2020, Journal of Environmental Management

In addition, some influential papers in which Serenella Sala collaborated include:

  • "Sustainability of food waste biorefinery: A review on valorisation pathways, techno-economic constraints, and environmental assessment", 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • "Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications", 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method", 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology

Frequent co-authors they have worked with include Carla Caldeira, Esther Sanyé-Mengual, Valeria De Laurentiis, Andrea Martino Amadei, and Sara Corrado. These collaborative efforts span various research topics and contribute to the breadth of their scholarly output.

Best Publications

  • Current options for the valorization of food manufacturing waste: a review

    Nadia Mirabella;Valentina Castellani;Serenella Sala

  • A systemic framework for sustainability assessment

    Serenella Sala;Biagio Ciuffo;Peter Nijkamp

  • Identifying best existing practice for characterization modeling in life cycle impact assessment

    Michael Zwicky Hauschild;Mark Goedkoop;Jeroen Guinée;Reinout Heijungs

  • The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

    Bruno Notarnicola;Serenella Sala;Assumpció Anton;Sarah J. McLaren

  • Environmental impacts of food consumption in Europe

    Bruno Notarnicola;Giuseppe Tassielli;Pietro Alexander Renzulli;Valentina Castellani

  • Sustainable performance index for tourism policy development

    V. Castellani;S. Sala

  • Ecological vulnerability in risk assessment. A review and perspectives

    H.J. De Lange;S. Sala;M. Vighi;J.H. Faber

  • Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and comparison of indicators frameworks

    Lucia Mancini;Serenella Sala

  • Quantification of food waste per product group along the food supply chain in the European Union: a mass flow analysis

    Carla Caldeira;Valeria De Laurentiis;Sara Corrado;Freija van Holsteijn

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

    Davy Vanham;Adrian Leip;Alessandro Galli;Thomas Kastner

  • Progress in sustainability science: lessons learnt from current methodologies for sustainability assessment: Part 1

    Serenella Sala;Francesca Farioli;Alessandra Zamagni

  • In quest of reducing the environmental impacts of food production and consumption

    Serenella Sala;Assumpcio’ Anton;Sarah J. McLaren;Bruno Notarnicola

  • Food waste accounting along global and European food supply chains: State of the art and outlook.

    Sara Corrado;Serenella Sala

  • Normalisation and weighting in life cycle assessment: quo vadis?

    Massimo Pizzol;Alexis Laurent;Serenella Sala;Bo Pedersen Weidema

  • Life cycle sustainability assessment in the context of sustainability science progress (part 2)

    Serenella Sala;Francesca Farioli;Alessandra Zamagni

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

    Manfred Klinglmair;Serenella Sala;Miguel Brandão

  • Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications

    Anders Bjorn;Anders Bjorn;Chanjief Chandrakumar;Anne-Marie Boulay;Gabor Doka

  • Sustainability of food waste biorefinery: A review on valorisation pathways, techno-economic constraints, and environmental assessment

    Carla Caldeira;Anestis Vlysidis;Gianluca Fiore;Valeria De Laurentiis

  • Quantifying household waste of fresh fruit and vegetables in the EU.

    Valeria De Laurentiis;Sara Corrado;Serenella Sala

  • Beyond the throwaway society: A life cycle-based assessment of the environmental benefit of reuse

    Valentina Castellani;Serenella Sala;Nadia Mirabella

  • Food waste accounting methodologies: Challenges, opportunities, and further advancements

    Sara Corrado;Carla Caldeira;Mattias Eriksson;Ole Jørgen Hanssen

  • Ecological Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment in the sustainability assessment of tourism activities

    Valentina Castellani;Serenella Sala

  • Techno-economic and profitability analysis of food waste biorefineries at European level

    Jorge Cristóbal;Carla Caldeira;Sara Corrado;Serenella Sala

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexis Laurent
Alexis Laurent Technical University of Denmark
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Peter Fantke
Peter Fantke Technical University of Denmark
Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Manuele Margni
Manuele Margni Polytechnique Montréal
Assumpció Antón
Assumpció Antón Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Jo Dewulf
Jo Dewulf Ghent University
Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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