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Stephan Pfister

Stephan Pfister

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
15851
World Ranking
2457
National Ranking
71

Overview

Stephan Pfister is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science and engineering. Their research covers a broad spectrum of topics primarily related to sustainability, environmental impact, and resource management.

Their recent publications include:

  • Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method, 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Regionalized life cycle assessment of present and future lithium production for Li-ion batteries, 2022, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • A highly resolved MRIO database for analyzing environmental footprints and Green Economy Progress, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Toward sustainable reprocessing and valorization of sulfidic copper tailings: Scenarios and prospective LCA, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Pfister frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

The scientist collaborates often with other researchers, including:

  • Stefanie Hellweg
  • Laura Scherer
  • Christopher Oberschelp
  • Francesca Rosa
  • Alexandra Marques

Stephan Pfister's main fields of study are Environmental Science and Engineering.

Their subfields of specialization include:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ecology

Key topics covered in Pfister's work are:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Best Publications

  • Assessing the environmental impacts of freshwater consumption in LCA

    Stephan Pfister;Annette Koehler;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

    Junguo Liu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang;Simon N. Gosling;Matti Kummu

  • The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE)

    Anne Marie Boulay;Anne Marie Boulay;Jane Bare;Lorenzo Benini;Markus Berger

  • A revised approach to water footprinting to make transparent the impacts of consumption and production on global freshwater scarcity

    Bradley G. Ridoutt;Stephan Pfister

  • Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

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  • Review of methods addressing freshwater use in life cycle inventory and impact assessment

    Anna Kounina;Anna Kounina;Manuele Margni;Manuele Margni;Jean-Baptiste Bayart;Anne-Marie Boulay

  • COMPARISON OF BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN APPROACHES TO CALCULATING THE WATER FOOTPRINTS OF NATIONS

    Kuishuang Feng;Ashok Chapagain;Sangwon Suh;Stephan Pfister

  • Environmental impacts of water use in global crop production: hotspots and trade-offs with land use.

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer;Annette Koehler;Stefanie Hellweg

  • A framework for assessing off-stream freshwater use in LCA

    Jean-Baptiste Bayart;Cécile Bulle;Louise Deschênes;Manuele Margni

  • Virtual Scarce Water in China

    Kuishuang Feng;Klaus Hubacek;Stephan Pfister;Yang Yu

  • Life Cycle Inventory and Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer

    Franziska Stoessel;Ronnie Juraske;Stephan Pfister;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Monthly water stress: spatially and temporally explicit consumptive water footprint of global crop production

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer

  • Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

    B. Oberle;S. Bringezu;S. Hatfield-Dodds;S. Hellweg

  • Global emission hotspots of coal power generation

    Christopher Oberschelp;Stephan Pfister;Catherine Raptis;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016) “A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA”

    Stephan Pfister;Anne-Marie Boulay;Markus Berger;Michalis Hadjikakou

  • LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

    Francesca Verones;Jane Bare;Cecile Bulle;Rolf Frischknecht

  • A new water footprint calculation method integrating consumptive and degradative water use into a single stand-alone weighted indicator

    Bradley G. Ridoutt;Stephan Pfister

  • LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method

    Francesca Verones;Stefanie Hellweg;Assumpció Antón;Ligia B. Azevedo;Ligia B. Azevedo

  • Spatially Explicit Analysis of Biodiversity Loss Due to Global Agriculture, Pasture and Forest Land Use from a Producer and Consumer Perspective

    Abhishek Chaudhary;Stephan Pfister;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Projected water consumption in future global agriculture: Scenarios and related impacts

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer;Annette Koehler;Stefanie Hellweg

  • GIS-Based Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment: How Big Is Small Enough? Methodology and Case Study of Electricity Generation

    Christopher L. Mutel;Stephan Pfister;Stephan Pfister;Stefanie Hellweg

  • The environmental relevance of freshwater consumption in global power production

    Stephan Pfister;Dominik Saner;Annette Koehler;Annette Koehler

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Manuele Margni
Manuele Margni Polytechnique Montréal
Peter Fantke
Peter Fantke Technical University of Denmark
Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter Bayer
Peter Bayer Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
Assumpció Antón
Assumpció Antón Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark

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