Kirsi Usva

Senior Scientist
  • Phone number +358295326621
  • Email address kirsi.usva@luke.fi
  • Address Tietotie 4 31600 JOKIOINEN

Harmonisation of the life cycle assessment of food products in Finland : Review of Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) from a comparability perspective

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2025

Life cycle sustainability assessment of an agricultural product in rural areas of Western Nepal : case study of goat meat

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

System expansion is needed to handle the multifunctionality of food items in environmental impact assessment

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2025

Guidance for environmental footprint assessment of food products (Food-LCA) : Specification for external communicational purposes on the Finnish market, 2nd edition

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2025

Guidance for environmental footprint assessment of food products (Food-LCA) : Specification for external communicational purposes on the Finnish market

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2024

Assessing water scarcity impact of food products applying AWARE method within LCA

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2024

Assessment of climate change impact and resource-use efficiency of lettuce production in vertical farming and greenhouse production in Finland: a case study

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2024

Life cycle assessment of red raspberry production – a comparative case study of open field and tunnel production in Finland

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2024

Environmental sustainability of Finnish pork production: life cycle assessment of climate change and water scarcity impacts

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2023

Environmental life cycle assessment of Finnish broiler chicken production – Focus on climate change and water scarcity impacts

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2023

Comparison of IPCC and PEF methods in assessment of nitrous oxide emissions from Finnish crop production

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2022

Environmental impact assessment of Finnish feed crop production with methodological comparison of PEF and IPCC methods for climate change impact

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2022

Challenges in using soil carbon modelling in LCA of agricultural products—the devil is in the detail

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2021

Emissions from manure management and application of organic and mineral fertilizer - comparisons of methods

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2021

Data quality and acquisition in PEF studies – cases in LCA studies of Finnish potato, pork and milk

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2020

Carbon and water footprint of coffee consumed in Finland—life cycle assessment

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2020

Giving Legs to Handprint Thinking: Foundations for Evaluating the Good We Do

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2020

A Meta-Analysis on Nitrogen Retention by Buffer Zones

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2019

EcoModules - an On-line Eco-design Tool

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2018

A Meta-Analysis on Nitrogen Retention by Buffer Zones

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2018

Applying water scarcity footprint methodologies to milk production in Finland

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2018