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Dr. Antonino Marvuglia
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

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Antonino Marvuglia holds an MSc in Environmental Engineering (2003) and a PhD in Environmental Applied Physics (2007), both from the University of Palermo (Italy). From 2009 to 2010, he was a Marie Curie research fellow at the University College Cork (Ireland). Since 2010, he has been a researcher in Luxembourg, where is now a Senior Research and Technology Associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). He is the (co-)author of approximately 50 peer-reviewed articles and several conference papers. His research interests encompass machine learning applications to environmental data analysis, agent-based models, life cycle assessment, energy and building. sustainability.

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Journal article
Published: 31 July 2021 in Building and Environment
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The effects of climate change on the built environment represents an important research challenge. Today, green roofs (GRs) represent a viable solution for enhancing energy and urban resilience in the face of climate change, as they can have a positive impact on the building's indoor thermal comfort and energy demand, as well as inducing various environmental benefits (easing urban heat island effects, improving the management of runoff water, reducing air pollution, etc.). Thus, it is important to be able to assess their effectiveness, both today and under future climate conditions, in order to evaluate whether they can also provide a valid long-term solution. In this paper, a simulation approach is proposed to evaluate the energy and indoor-comfort efficacy of GRs installed on a cluster of buildings with respect to climate change and demographic growth. To illustrate the proposed methodology, it has been applied to two European urban environments characterized by very different climatic conditions (Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg and Palermo in Italy) considering their behaviour over a period of 60 years (2020, 2050, 2080). Results showed that, with respect to standard existing roofs (i.e., without the presence of green coverage), and considering the rising temperatures due to climate change, during cooling seasons GRs enabled significant energy savings (ranging from 20% to 50% for Esch-sur-Alzette and from 3% to 15% for Palermo), improvement of the indoor comfort (reduction of the average predicted mean votes − PMVs) and attenuation of the ceiling temperatures (2–5 °C for both contexts) of the buildings' top floors.

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Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application. Building and Environment 2021, 205, 108198 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Antonino Marvuglia, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application. Building and Environment. 2021; 205 ():108198.

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Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2021. "Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application." Building and Environment 205, no. : 108198.

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Published: 04 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Implementing nature-based solutions (NBSs) in cities, such as urban forests, can have multiple effects on the quality of life of inhabitants, acting on the mitigation of climate change, and in some cases also enhancing citizens’ social life and the transformation of customer patterns in commercial activities. Assessing this latter effect is the aim of this paper. An agent-based model (ABM) was used to assess change in commercial activities by small and midsize companies in retail due to the development of parks. The paper focuses on the potential capacity of NBS green spaces to boost retail companies’ business volumes, thus increasing their revenues, and at the same time create a pleasant feeling of space usability for the population. The type of NBS is not specified but generalized into large green spaces. The simulation contains two types of agents: (1) residents and (2) shop owners. Factors that attract new retail shops to be established in an area are simplified, based on attractor points, which identify areas such as large green spaces within and around which shops can form. The simulations provided insights on the number of retail shops that can be sustained based on the purchasing behavior of citizens that walk in parks. Four European cities were explored: Szeged (Hungary), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), Çankaya Municipality (Turkey) and Milan (Italy). The model allowed analyzing the indirect economic benefit of NBSs (i.e., large green spaces in this case) on a neighborhood’s economic structure. More precisely, the presence of green parks in the model boosted the visits of customers to local small shops located within and around them, such as cafés and kiosks, allowing for the emergence of 5–6 retail shops (on average, for about 800 walking citizens) in the case of Szeged and an average 12–14 retail shops for a simulated population of 2900 persons that walk in parks in the case of Milan. Overall, results from this modeling exercise can be considered representative for large urban green areas usually visited by a substantial number of citizens. However, their pertinence to support for local policies for NBS implementation and other decision-making related activities of socioeconomic nature is hampered by the low representativeness of source data used for the simulations.

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Rembrandt Koppelaar; Antonino Marvuglia; Lisanne Havinga; Jelena Brajković; Benedetto Rugani. Is Agent-Based Simulation a Valid Tool for Studying the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions on Local Economy? A Case Study of Four European Cities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7466 .

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Rembrandt Koppelaar, Antonino Marvuglia, Lisanne Havinga, Jelena Brajković, Benedetto Rugani. Is Agent-Based Simulation a Valid Tool for Studying the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions on Local Economy? A Case Study of Four European Cities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7466.

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Rembrandt Koppelaar; Antonino Marvuglia; Lisanne Havinga; Jelena Brajković; Benedetto Rugani. 2021. "Is Agent-Based Simulation a Valid Tool for Studying the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions on Local Economy? A Case Study of Four European Cities." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7466.

Journal article
Published: 18 February 2021 in Energies
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In a context where digital giants are increasingly influencing the actions decided by public policies, smart data platforms are a tool for collecting a great deal of information on the territory and a means of producing effective public policies to meet contemporary challenges, improve the quality of the city, and create new services. Within the framework of the Smarter Together project, the cities of Lyon (France), Munich (Germany), and Vienna (Austria) have integrated this tool into their city’s metabolism and use it at different scales. Nevertheless, the principle remains the same: the collection (or even dissemination) of internal and external data to the administration will enable the communities, companies, not-for-profit organizations, and civic administrations to “measure” the city and identify areas for improvement in the territory. Furthermore, through open data logics, public authorities can encourage external partners to become actors in territorial action by using findings from the data to produce services that will contribute to the development of the territory and increase the quality of the city and its infrastructure. Nevertheless, based on data that is relatively complex to extract and process, public data platforms raise many legal, technical, economic, and social issues. The cities either avoided collecting personal data or when dealing with sensitive data, use anonymized aggregated data. Cocreation activities with municipal, commercial, civil society stakeholders, and citizens adopted the strategies and tools of the intelligent data platforms to develop new urban mobility and government informational services for both citizens and public authorities. The data platforms are evolving for transparent alignment with 2030 climate-neutrality objectives while municipalities strive for greater agility to respond to disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Naomi Morishita-Steffen; Rémi Alberola; Baptiste Mougeot; Étienne Vignali; Camilla Wikström; Uwe Montag; Emmanuel Gastaud; Brigitte Lutz; Gerhard Hartmann; Franz Pfaffenbichler; Ali Hainoun; Bruno Gaiddon; Antonino Marvuglia; Maria Andreucci. Smarter Together: Progressing Smart Data Platforms in Lyon, Munich, and Vienna. Energies 2021, 14, 1075 .

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Naomi Morishita-Steffen, Rémi Alberola, Baptiste Mougeot, Étienne Vignali, Camilla Wikström, Uwe Montag, Emmanuel Gastaud, Brigitte Lutz, Gerhard Hartmann, Franz Pfaffenbichler, Ali Hainoun, Bruno Gaiddon, Antonino Marvuglia, Maria Andreucci. Smarter Together: Progressing Smart Data Platforms in Lyon, Munich, and Vienna. Energies. 2021; 14 (4):1075.

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Naomi Morishita-Steffen; Rémi Alberola; Baptiste Mougeot; Étienne Vignali; Camilla Wikström; Uwe Montag; Emmanuel Gastaud; Brigitte Lutz; Gerhard Hartmann; Franz Pfaffenbichler; Ali Hainoun; Bruno Gaiddon; Antonino Marvuglia; Maria Andreucci. 2021. "Smarter Together: Progressing Smart Data Platforms in Lyon, Munich, and Vienna." Energies 14, no. 4: 1075.

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Published: 04 November 2020 in Ecological Modelling
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Embedding nature-based solutions (NBS) in cities is expected to bring quantifiable benefits, including resilience to flooding, drought, and heatwaves, and air quality improvement. Among NBS, green roofs have an important role in temperature regulation in buildings and in lowering the damaging effects of heatwaves on human health. In this paper a spatial microsimulation model is implemented to simulate temperature impacts of green roofs installations in cities and their capacity to attenuate the effects of heatwave episodes. Particularly vulnerable to heatwaves are elderly people with limited mobility, who have limited means to seek cooling and create cooler indoor environments. The model, implemented using the Netlogo platform (version 6.0.4), considers as agents the elderly citizens in a city area and simulates the heatwave-related health impacts, which are measured in mortality likelihood. In particular, the model simulates a generalised 1.5 °C to 3 °C indoor temperature reduction range induced by green roofs (based on inferences from green roof literature) in four different European cities: Szeged (Hungary), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), Metropolitan City of Milan (Italy) and Çankaya municipality (Turkey). The simulation utilises a ceteris paribus modelling approach, meaning that the relationships of the observed phenomenon (mortality induced by heatwaves) with other possible influencing factors (e.g. level of sport and physical activities practiced by people) are not taken into account. In the case of Szeged, Alcalá de Henares, and Çankaya municipality a substantial reduction in mortality is found to occur associated with green roofs roll out. In the case of the Metropolitan city of Milan, green roofs installations show a low mitigation effect in some scenarios. The underlying factor is the temperature threshold parameter of the model, above which heatwave mortality occurs. This parameter was inferred from the literature (Baccini M., et al., 2008) and it resulted to be substantially higher in the Metropolitan city of Milan (31.8 °C) than in the other cities. The simulation helps in obtaining results which are specific to a given city and particular scenarios therein, and provides additional insights, such as expected temperature mitigation effect induced by green roofs under climate change conditions, or the indoor temperature reduction targets that are needed for a particular city to have a maximum desired heatwave mitigation impact. However, the model parameters have to be carefully selected, after an accurate study of the domain literature.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Rembrandt Koppelaar; Benedetto Rugani. The effect of green roofs on the reduction of mortality due to heatwaves: Results from the application of a spatial microsimulation model to four European cities. Ecological Modelling 2020, 438, 109351 .

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Antonino Marvuglia, Rembrandt Koppelaar, Benedetto Rugani. The effect of green roofs on the reduction of mortality due to heatwaves: Results from the application of a spatial microsimulation model to four European cities. Ecological Modelling. 2020; 438 ():109351.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Rembrandt Koppelaar; Benedetto Rugani. 2020. "The effect of green roofs on the reduction of mortality due to heatwaves: Results from the application of a spatial microsimulation model to four European cities." Ecological Modelling 438, no. : 109351.

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Published: 04 April 2020 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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Reducing the energy consumption of buildings is a priority for carbon emissions mitigation in urban areas. Building stock energy models have been developed to support decisions of public authorities in renovation strategies. However, the burdens of renovation interventions and their temporal distribution are mostly overlooked, leading to potential overestimation of environmental benefits. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a holistic estimation of environmental impacts, but further developments are needed to correctly consider spatio-temporal aspects. We propose a spatio-temporal LCA framework to assess renovation scenarios of urban housing stocks, integrating: 1) a geospatial building-by-building stock model, 2) energy demand modelling, 3) product-based LCA, and 4) a scenario generator. Temporal aspects are considered both in the lifecycle inventory and the lifecycle impact assessment phases, by accounting for the evolution of the existing housing stock and applying time-adjusted carbon footprint calculation. We apply the framework for the carbon footprint assessment of housing renovation in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg). Results show that the renovation stage represents 4%–16% of the carbon footprint in the residual service life of existing buildings, respectively after conventional or advanced renovations. Under current renovation rates, the carbon footprint reduction would be limited to 3–4% by 2030. Pushing renovation rates to 3%, enables carbon reductions up to 28% by 2030 when combined with advanced renovations. Carbon reductions in the operational stage of buildings are offset by 8–9% due to the impacts of renovation. Using time-adjusted emissions results in higher weight for the renovation stage and slightly lower benefits for renovation.

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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; Ulrich Leopold. A spatio-temporal life cycle assessment framework for building renovation scenarios at the urban scale. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020, 126, 109834 .

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Alessio Mastrucci, Antonino Marvuglia, Enrico Benetto, Ulrich Leopold. A spatio-temporal life cycle assessment framework for building renovation scenarios at the urban scale. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2020; 126 ():109834.

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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; Ulrich Leopold. 2020. "A spatio-temporal life cycle assessment framework for building renovation scenarios at the urban scale." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 126, no. : 109834.

Review article
Published: 06 March 2020 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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With nearly 70% of the world population expected to live in cities by 2050, assessing the sustainability of urban systems, both existing and future ones, is becoming increasingly relevant. Making cities more sustainable is a global priority, which is highlighted by ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ being listed as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) explores the implementation and assessment of policies and technologies that contribute to the transition to a sustainable, energy efficient and regenerative society. We organized the issue according to four main research themes: 1) Renewable Energy Systems (i.e., different types of systems, qualitative assessments and public acceptance); 2) Sustainable Built Environment (which includes construction, operation and refurbishment); 3) Multi-Scale Models (considering urban sustainability transition from building to districts, or cities and regions to multi-country comparisons and their scaling across different countries); and 4) Governance and Policy (climate change mitigation and adaptation plans/policies that are reported across countries, urban services and infrastructures). This paper serves two purposes. The first is to provide an analysis about patterns, correlations and synergies found across the different topics that have been addressed over the last 20 years in the literature about cities’ sustainability paths. A bibliometric analysis and a contingency matrix show the degree of correlation between scientific journals and main topics addressed by published articles. Secondly, the paper acts as an Editorial to the VSI, introducing the wealth of research articles and topics included in it. Both the bibliometric analysis and the papers published in this VSI demonstrate the interconnectedness of energy consumption, pollutant emissions and the competition for finite resources. The aim is to present advances and challenges of this exciting and ever-evolving research field to inform and guide future studies of urban sustainability.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Lisanne Havinga; Oliver Heidrich; Jimeno Fonseca; Niki Gaitani; Diana Reckien. Advances and challenges in assessing urban sustainability: an advanced bibliometric review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020, 124, 109788 .

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Antonino Marvuglia, Lisanne Havinga, Oliver Heidrich, Jimeno Fonseca, Niki Gaitani, Diana Reckien. Advances and challenges in assessing urban sustainability: an advanced bibliometric review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2020; 124 ():109788.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Lisanne Havinga; Oliver Heidrich; Jimeno Fonseca; Niki Gaitani; Diana Reckien. 2020. "Advances and challenges in assessing urban sustainability: an advanced bibliometric review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 124, no. : 109788.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2018 in Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal
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In the constant pursue of the sustainability of socio-industrial systems, the definition of useful, reliable and informative, and at the same time simple and transparent, indicators is an important step for the evaluation of the circularity of the assessed systems. In the circular economy (CE)...

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A. Marvuglia; R. Santagata; B. Rugani; Enrico Benetto; S. Ulgiati. Emergy-based indicators to measure circularity: promises and problems. Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal 2018, 21, 179 -196.

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A. Marvuglia, R. Santagata, B. Rugani, Enrico Benetto, S. Ulgiati. Emergy-based indicators to measure circularity: promises and problems. Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal. 2018; 21 (4):179-196.

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A. Marvuglia; R. Santagata; B. Rugani; Enrico Benetto; S. Ulgiati. 2018. "Emergy-based indicators to measure circularity: promises and problems." Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal 21, no. 4: 179-196.

Conference paper
Published: 21 November 2018 in First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015
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We build an ABM for simulation of incentives for maize to produce bio-fuels in Luxembourg with an aim to conduct life cycle assessment of the additional maize and the consequent displacement of other crops in Luxembourg. This paper focuses on the discovery of market price for crops. On the supply side we have farmers who are willing to sell their produce based on their actual incurred costs and an expected markup over costs. On the demand side, we have buyers or middlemen who are responsible for quoting prices and buying the output based on their expectation of the market price and quantity. We have N buyers who participate in the market over R rounds. Each buyer has a correct expectation of the total number of buyers in each market. Thus in each round, the buyer bids for a quantity \(q_b^r=\frac {Q_b^e}{N \times R}\), where \(Q_b^e\) is the expected total output of a crop. The buyer at each round buys \(\min (q_b^r,S_t^r)\), the minimum of the planned purchase at each round r and the total supply \(S_t^r\) by farmers in the round at a price \(p_b^r\). The market clears over multiple rounds. At each round, the buyers are sorted by descending order of price quotes and the highest bidder gets buying priority. Similarly the farmers are sorted according to the ascending order of quotes. At the end of each round, the clearance prices are visible to all agents and the agents have an option of modifying their bids in the forthcoming rounds. The buyers and sellers may face a shortfall which is the difference between the target sale or purchase in each round and the actual realised sale. The shortfall is then covered by smoothing it over future rounds (1–4). The more aggressive behaviour is to cover the entire shortfall in the next round, while a more calm behaviour leads to smoothing over multiple (4) rounds. We find that there is a statistically distinct distribution of prices and shortfall over smoothing rounds and has an impact on the price discovery.

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Sameer Rege; Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; Didier Stilmant. Modelling Price Discovery in an Agent Based Model for Agriculture in Luxembourg. First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015 2018, 91 -112.

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Sameer Rege, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, Antonino Marvuglia, Enrico Benetto, Didier Stilmant. Modelling Price Discovery in an Agent Based Model for Agriculture in Luxembourg. First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015. 2018; ():91-112.

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Sameer Rege; Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; Didier Stilmant. 2018. "Modelling Price Discovery in an Agent Based Model for Agriculture in Luxembourg." First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015 , no. : 91-112.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2018 in Ecological Indicators
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Dario Torregrossa; Antonino Marvuglia; Ulrich Leopold. A novel methodology based on LCA + DEA to detect eco-efficiency shifts in wastewater treatment plants. Ecological Indicators 2018, 94, 7 -15.

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Dario Torregrossa, Antonino Marvuglia, Ulrich Leopold. A novel methodology based on LCA + DEA to detect eco-efficiency shifts in wastewater treatment plants. Ecological Indicators. 2018; 94 ():7-15.

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Dario Torregrossa; Antonino Marvuglia; Ulrich Leopold. 2018. "A novel methodology based on LCA + DEA to detect eco-efficiency shifts in wastewater treatment plants." Ecological Indicators 94, no. : 7-15.

Journal article
Published: 27 September 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Agriculture is one of the main assets of Pakistani and Indian economies, employing in both countries about 50% of the total labour force. Thus, improving agricultural sustainability in the Indo-Pak region has important implications for the local population as well as the rest of the world that relies on food imports from these countries. This article investigates the drivers and consequences of changes in crop production sustainability in India and Pakistan from an emergy-based perspective, from 2001 to 2011. However, due to the numerous crops cultivated in these regions, a detailed calculation of unit emergy values (UEVs) for each crop was not possible, therefore the paper presents a balance at country level (based on literature data for the crops’ UEVs), rather than a canonical emergy accounting. The emergy perspective was chosen to holistically evaluate and compare the environmental pressures caused by crop production in both countries. Emergy-based indicators were calculated based on the real time series of input renewable and non-renewable sources. The major findings of the work revealed that purchased renewable inputs, such as irrigating water, and purchased non-renewable inputs, such as agricultural labor, are the largest contributors among the total inputs in both countries. Labor accounted for 46.79% and 60.59% of total emergy input for crop production in India and Pakistan respectively. Overall, the production efficiency in India was greater than that in Pakistan. Emergy of crop production in Pakistan witnessed an increase of only 23%, whereas India saw an increase of 42% during the study period. Despite the lack of data on each specific agricultural process, this trend is an evidence of the fact that, if on one side the agricultural activities in the two countries were intensified to supply an increasing population, on the other side, although India performed better than Pakistan, the sustainability of the agricultural practices (from a nature-oriented perspective as assessed with emergy analysis) in both countries did not improve. . Trends of carrying capacity indicated that intensive means of agricultural production are threatening natural resources in both countries. This study empirically demonstrates the need to conserve natural resources, especially water, which have been rapidly declining in these two countries. Since both countries share these resources, this study represents an evidence for the need to cooperate for transboundary natural resource management.

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Mustafa Ali; Antonino Marvuglia; Yong Geng; Dawn Robins; Hengyu Pan; Xiaoqian Song; Zhongjue Yu; Huaping Sun. Accounting emergy-based sustainability of crops production in India and Pakistan over first decade of the 21st century. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 207, 111 -122.

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Mustafa Ali, Antonino Marvuglia, Yong Geng, Dawn Robins, Hengyu Pan, Xiaoqian Song, Zhongjue Yu, Huaping Sun. Accounting emergy-based sustainability of crops production in India and Pakistan over first decade of the 21st century. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 207 ():111-122.

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Mustafa Ali; Antonino Marvuglia; Yong Geng; Dawn Robins; Hengyu Pan; Xiaoqian Song; Zhongjue Yu; Huaping Sun. 2018. "Accounting emergy-based sustainability of crops production in India and Pakistan over first decade of the 21st century." Journal of Cleaner Production 207, no. : 111-122.

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Published: 23 August 2018 in Ecosystem Services
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Essential environmental resources are rapidly exploited globally, while social-ecological systems at different scales fail to meet sustainable development challenges. Ecosystem services research, which at present predominantly utilizes static modelling approaches, needs better integration with socio-economic dynamics in order to assist a scientific approach to sustainability. This article focuses on Brownfield lands, a unique landscape that is undergoing transformations and provides ecosystem services that remain, at this point in time, mostly unrecognized in public discourse. We discuss the main issues associated with current modelling and valuation approaches and formulate an ecosystem-based integrated redevelopment workflow applied to the assessment of Brownfield redevelopment options.

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B.W. Kolosz; I.N. Athanasiadis; G. Cadisch; Terence Dawson; C. Giupponi; M. Honzák; J. Martinez-Lopez; A. Marvuglia; V. Mojtahed; K.B.Z. Ogutu; Hedwig van Delden; F. Villa; S. Balbi. Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land. Ecosystem Services 2018, 33, 29 -39.

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B.W. Kolosz, I.N. Athanasiadis, G. Cadisch, Terence Dawson, C. Giupponi, M. Honzák, J. Martinez-Lopez, A. Marvuglia, V. Mojtahed, K.B.Z. Ogutu, Hedwig van Delden, F. Villa, S. Balbi. Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land. Ecosystem Services. 2018; 33 ():29-39.

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B.W. Kolosz; I.N. Athanasiadis; G. Cadisch; Terence Dawson; C. Giupponi; M. Honzák; J. Martinez-Lopez; A. Marvuglia; V. Mojtahed; K.B.Z. Ogutu; Hedwig van Delden; F. Villa; S. Balbi. 2018. "Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land." Ecosystem Services 33, no. : 29-39.

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Published: 14 August 2018 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Ambitious energy policies have been established in Luxembourg, which has one of the highest Gross Domestic Products (GDP) per capita in the world but still much depends on imported fuels and electricity. Born as an alternative to GDP, the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) is applied in this study as a framework to predict socio-economic and environmental performances of Luxembourg in relation to energy policy scenarios. The ISEW for the 1960–2010 timeframe is firstly calculated and compared with GDP in order to disclose the impact of factors differently considered by the two indices, e.g. consumption trends, equity, air pollution, carbon emissions, consumer durables expenditures, investments, etc. A forecasting model to predict the ISEW trend until 2030 is then proposed to assess the relevance of national energy policies. The analysis of historical time-series shows that the ISEW grows over time at much slower pace than GDP, mostly due to increases in defensive expenditures. This gap may decline in the future by implementing those energy policies, providing a slight but tangible recovery of the economic welfare over the next 10–15 years. Several insights are ultimately given on the benefits and drawbacks of using the ISEW framework to assess long-term sustainability issues.

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Benedetto Rugani; Antonino Marvuglia; Federico Maria Pulselli. Predicting Sustainable Economic Welfare – Analysis and perspectives for Luxembourg based on energy policy scenarios. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 137, 288 -303.

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Benedetto Rugani, Antonino Marvuglia, Federico Maria Pulselli. Predicting Sustainable Economic Welfare – Analysis and perspectives for Luxembourg based on energy policy scenarios. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018; 137 ():288-303.

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Benedetto Rugani; Antonino Marvuglia; Federico Maria Pulselli. 2018. "Predicting Sustainable Economic Welfare – Analysis and perspectives for Luxembourg based on energy policy scenarios." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 137, no. : 288-303.

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Published: 04 July 2018 in Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies
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This paper synthesizes the authors’ experience in the area of integrated approaches coupling multi-objective optimization (MOO), industrial process modeling and simulation, and life cycle assessment (LCA), with particular application to the sector of drinking water production. An industrial process is intended as any process using a certain technology to produce a product or deliver a service. The paper discusses comparatively the suitability for the optimization of a real-world drinking water production plant (DWPP) of four optimization approaches, namely: (1) off-the-shelf global search metaheuristic algorithms, (2) hybrid optimizers combining global search and local search, (3) surrogate model based optimizers, and (4) local search.

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Florin Capitanescu; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto. A Synthesis of Optimization Approaches for LCA-Integrated Industrial Process Modeling: Application to Potable Water Production Plants. Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies 2018, 21 -31.

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Florin Capitanescu, Antonino Marvuglia, Enrico Benetto. A Synthesis of Optimization Approaches for LCA-Integrated Industrial Process Modeling: Application to Potable Water Production Plants. Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies. 2018; ():21-31.

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Florin Capitanescu; Antonino Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto. 2018. "A Synthesis of Optimization Approaches for LCA-Integrated Industrial Process Modeling: Application to Potable Water Production Plants." Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies , no. : 21-31.

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Published: 04 July 2018 in Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies
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Access to data on built environment databases makes nowadays possible generating models of the urban spaces to facilitate visualization and analysis of information and synthesize it in sustainability indicators to support urban planning decisions. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can greatly benefit from this wealth of potentially available information. The use of LCA data in models developed in Building Information Modelling (BIM) platforms is likely to facilitate the implementation of quantitative environmental assessment in the construction field and their extension, from the building to the city level. Within sustainable urban planning and management, also Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) play a potentially important role, although benefits, co-benefits and costs associated with NBS projects still remain not sufficiently understood. All those aspects have been discussed via the presentation of case studies, proofs of concept and experts’ visions within this session.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Benedetto Rugani; Germain Adell. LCM at the Urban Scale: BIM and Nature Based Solutions. Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies 2018, 261 -267.

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Antonino Marvuglia, Benedetto Rugani, Germain Adell. LCM at the Urban Scale: BIM and Nature Based Solutions. Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies. 2018; ():261-267.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Benedetto Rugani; Germain Adell. 2018. "LCM at the Urban Scale: BIM and Nature Based Solutions." Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies , no. : 261-267.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2018 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Mustafa Ali; Antonino Marvuglia; Yong Geng; Nawaz Chaudhry; Shahid Khokhar. Emergy based carbon footprinting of household solid waste management scenarios in Pakistan. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2018, 131, 283 -296.

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Mustafa Ali, Antonino Marvuglia, Yong Geng, Nawaz Chaudhry, Shahid Khokhar. Emergy based carbon footprinting of household solid waste management scenarios in Pakistan. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2018; 131 ():283-296.

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Mustafa Ali; Antonino Marvuglia; Yong Geng; Nawaz Chaudhry; Shahid Khokhar. 2018. "Emergy based carbon footprinting of household solid waste management scenarios in Pakistan." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 131, no. : 283-296.

Letter to the editor
Published: 19 February 2018 in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners face many challenges in their efforts to describe, share, review, and revise their product system models, and to reproduce the models and results of others. Current life cycle inventory modeling techniques have weaknesses in the areas of describing model structure, documenting the use of proxy or non-ideal data, specifying allocation, and including modeler’s observations and assumptions—all affecting how the study is interpreted and limiting the reuse of models. Moreover, LCA software systems manage modeling information in different and sometimes non-compatible ways. Practitioners must also deal with licensing, privacy/confidentiality of data, and other issues around data access which impact how a model can be shared. This letter was prepared by a working group of the North American Life Cycle Assessment Advisory Group to support the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative’s Flagship Activity on Data, Methods, and Product Sustainability Information. The aim of the working group is to define a roadmap of the technical advances needed to achieve easier LCA model sharing and improve replicability of LCA results among different users in a way that is independent of the LCA software used to compute the results and does not infringe on any licensing restrictions or confidentiality requirements. This is intended to be a consensus document providing the state of the art in this area, with milestones for research and implementation needed to resolve current issues. The roadmap identifies fifteen milestones in three areas: “describing model contents,” “describing model structure,” and “collaborative use of models.” The milestones should support researchers and software developers in advancing practitioners’ abilities to share and review product system models.

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Brandon Kuczenski; Antonino Marvuglia; Miguel F. Astudillo; Wesley W. Ingwersen; M. Barclay Satterfield; David P. Evers; Christoph Koffler; Tomás Navarrete; Ben Amor; Lise Laurin. LCA capability roadmap—product system model description and revision. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 2018, 23, 1685 -1692.

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Brandon Kuczenski, Antonino Marvuglia, Miguel F. Astudillo, Wesley W. Ingwersen, M. Barclay Satterfield, David P. Evers, Christoph Koffler, Tomás Navarrete, Ben Amor, Lise Laurin. LCA capability roadmap—product system model description and revision. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 2018; 23 (8):1685-1692.

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Brandon Kuczenski; Antonino Marvuglia; Miguel F. Astudillo; Wesley W. Ingwersen; M. Barclay Satterfield; David P. Evers; Christoph Koffler; Tomás Navarrete; Ben Amor; Lise Laurin. 2018. "LCA capability roadmap—product system model description and revision." The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23, no. 8: 1685-1692.

Review
Published: 01 January 2018 in AIMS Agriculture and Food
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Agent-Based Models (ABMs) have been adopted to simulate very different kinds of complex systems, from biological systems to complex coupled human-natural systems. In particular, when used to simulate man-managed systems, they have the advantage of allowing human behavioral aspects to be considered in the modelling framework. This paper provides a literature review of the application of ABMs for agricultural and land use modelling. One section is specifically devoted to the coupling of ABMs and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models. The aim of the paper is to give a perspective of the different “modelling blocks” one needs to take into account to build an ABM, dealing with general issues that must be considered regardless of the domain of application (such as validity, uncertainty, parameter sensitivity, agent definition, data provision), and providing concrete examples related specifically to ABMs applied to agricultural and land use modelling. The paper highlights the difficulties that the modelers can encounter in dealing with each of these modelling blocks, and presents the solutions that can be envisioned (mentioning those that have been applied in certain cases in the literature). As a general conclusion, we can observe that solutions based on complex systems simulations are starting, to some extent, to be influential in policymaking; however, practical user-friendly tools that allow scenario simulations also to non-expert users are clearly still lacking.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez; Paul Baustert; Enrico Benetto. Implementation of Agent-Based Models to support Life Cycle Assessment: A review focusing on agriculture and land use. AIMS Agriculture and Food 2018, 3, 535 -560.

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Antonino Marvuglia, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, Paul Baustert, Enrico Benetto. Implementation of Agent-Based Models to support Life Cycle Assessment: A review focusing on agriculture and land use. AIMS Agriculture and Food. 2018; 3 (4):535-560.

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Antonino Marvuglia; Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez; Paul Baustert; Enrico Benetto. 2018. "Implementation of Agent-Based Models to support Life Cycle Assessment: A review focusing on agriculture and land use." AIMS Agriculture and Food 3, no. 4: 535-560.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in European Journal of Operational Research
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F. Capitanescu; A. Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; A. Ahmadi; L. Tiruta-Barna. Linear programming-based directed local search for expensive multi-objective optimization problems: Application to drinking water production plants. European Journal of Operational Research 2017, 262, 322 -334.

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F. Capitanescu, A. Marvuglia, Enrico Benetto, A. Ahmadi, L. Tiruta-Barna. Linear programming-based directed local search for expensive multi-objective optimization problems: Application to drinking water production plants. European Journal of Operational Research. 2017; 262 (1):322-334.

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F. Capitanescu; A. Marvuglia; Enrico Benetto; A. Ahmadi; L. Tiruta-Barna. 2017. "Linear programming-based directed local search for expensive multi-objective optimization problems: Application to drinking water production plants." European Journal of Operational Research 262, no. 1: 322-334.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2017 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Emil Popovici; Ulrich Leopold; Enrico Benetto. Geospatial characterization of building material stocks for the life cycle assessment of end-of-life scenarios at the urban scale. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2017, 123, 54 -66.

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Alessio Mastrucci, Antonino Marvuglia, Emil Popovici, Ulrich Leopold, Enrico Benetto. Geospatial characterization of building material stocks for the life cycle assessment of end-of-life scenarios at the urban scale. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2017; 123 ():54-66.

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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Emil Popovici; Ulrich Leopold; Enrico Benetto. 2017. "Geospatial characterization of building material stocks for the life cycle assessment of end-of-life scenarios at the urban scale." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 123, no. : 54-66.

Review
Published: 01 July 2017 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Ulrich Leopold; Enrico Benetto. Life Cycle Assessment of building stocks from urban to transnational scales: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2017, 74, 316 -332.

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Alessio Mastrucci, Antonino Marvuglia, Ulrich Leopold, Enrico Benetto. Life Cycle Assessment of building stocks from urban to transnational scales: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2017; 74 ():316-332.

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Alessio Mastrucci; Antonino Marvuglia; Ulrich Leopold; Enrico Benetto. 2017. "Life Cycle Assessment of building stocks from urban to transnational scales: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 74, no. : 316-332.