Assessment of environmental and social impacts due to the inclusion of novel solutions for nutrient recovery: towards sustainability in agriculture

Identificador:  TDX:3898

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3898

Autors:  Pereira Andrade, Edilene

Resum:
Agriculture plays an important role in supporting food, strongly related to many challenges of Sustainability such as climate change, water shortages, poverty and food insecurity would be a source of food. We therefore need to pass from an aqro-food system with the goal of aauqmenting productivity, to another build around more principles Sustainable agriculture. The aim of this thesis is to assess the environmental and social impacts of new Technologies and solutions focused on nutrient recovery and nutrient recycling in agriculture. With this purpose, propagate the development of methodologies and set of indicators focused on the main issues direct and indirect social and environmental aspects of the sector. In addition, it is intended to help end users prevent and mitigate, when possible environmental and social impacts of farming and livestock systems. Also, van develop a facilious uti lizard to present social and arybiental assessments for fingering agents directly and indirectly involved in the sector. End products are focused on agriculture, but can extend to other sectors, such as forestry or fishing, following the methododology spread