Miguel Brandão has been working on life cycle assessment of land-use systems during the last 6 years as part of his PhD and subsequently at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He has developed methods for quantifying indirect land-use changes (iLUC) and for the impact assessment of land use in LCA. His focus is on land-use competition, particularly the consequential impacts of using land for food, feed, fuel timber and carbon sinks on the economy, ecosystems and climate. He is also developing guidelines for consequential LCA and for sustainability assessment. Currently, Miguel is an LCA associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is a member of the Steering Committee of SETAC Europe LCA.
Contributed publications
De Rosa M, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Pizzol M – 2017 A flexible parametric model for a balanced account of forest carbon fluxes in LCA. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22:172–184
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2015 Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’. GCB Bioenergy, Letter to editor 7(4):565-566
Schmidt J, Weidema B P, Brandão M – 2015 A framework for modelling indirect land use changes in life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production 99:230-238
Weidema B P, Brandão M – 2015 Ethical perspectives on planetary boundaries and LCIA. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3-7 May 2015
Pizzol M, Weidema B P, Brandão M, Osset P – 2015 Monetary valuation in life cycle assessment: a review. Journal of Cleaner Production 86:170-179
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2014 Avoiding the streetlight effect: Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’ by prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner. 2.-0 LCA consultants, Skibbrogade 5, 1, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark
Weidema B P, Pizzol M, Brandão M – 2013 The Use of Monetary Valuation of Environmental Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment: State of the art, strengths and weaknesses. SCORE-LCA report Nb 2012-03, Date: 10/2013
Schmidt J, Brandão M – 2013 LCA screening of biofuels – iLUC, biomass manipulation and soil carbon. This report is an appendix to a report published by the Danish green think tank CONCITO on the climate effects from biofuels: Klimapåvirkningen fra biomasse og andre energikilder, Hovedrapport (in Danish only). CONCITO, Copenhagen.
Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2013 Conceptual challenges for internalising externalities. Presentation for 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Gothenburg 2013.08.25-28.
Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2013 LCA Data Modelling: The Consequential Approach. Chapter 3.2 in De Camillis, C., Brandão, M., Zamagni, A., Pennington, D. (eds.): Sustainability assessment of future-oriented scenarios: a review of data modelling approaches in Life Cycle Assessment. Towards recommendations for policy making and business strategies. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg, pp. 17-20
Brandão M, Levasseur A, Kirschbaum M U F, Weidema B P, Cowie A L, Joergensen S V, Hauschild M Z, Pennington D W, Chomkhamsri K – 2012 Key issues and options in accounting for carbon sequestration and temporary storage in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18 (1):230-240
Koellner T, de Baan L, Beck T, Brandão M, Civit B, Goedkoop M, Margni M, Milà i Canals L, Müller-Wenk R, Weidema B P, Wittstock B – 2012 Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18 (6):1203-1215