Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use: Pt.2: Impact assessment

Conclusions: Excluding biodiversity impacts from land use significantly limits the scope of LCA. Accounting for land use in inventory modeling is dramatically enhanced if LCA is coupled with GIS. The resulting inventory data are a sound basis for biodiversity impact assessments, in particular if coupled with information on species-habitat relationships. However, much more case studies and structural analysis of indicators is required, together with an evaluation framework that enables comparisons and ranking of indicators.