TY  - SER
AU  - Hla Hla Htwe
AU  - Shipin,Oleg V.
AU  - Visvanathan,C.
AU  - Nguyen,Thi Kim Oanh
ED  - Ministry of Foreign  Affairs, Norway,
TI  - Impact of hardwood generation on rice production with regard to water footprint profile by LCA in Eucalyptus-rice agroforestry projects in Thailand
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Pathum Thani, Thailand
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Rice
KW  - Water requirements
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Plants
KW  - Eucalyptus
KW  - Agroforestry
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering and Management; Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2015
N2  - This study aimed to investigate water footprint profiles and water scarcity indicator of rice production farmed with  and  without Eucalyptus trees in Eucalyptus-Rice  agroforestry project in Thailand as well as to compare these impact potentials between two cases. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was used as a technical tool to assess the impacts from-farm gate to farm-gate stage and defining 1 tonne of rice in 8 crop cycles of rice and 1 life cycle of Eucalyptus plants and 1 tonne as a function unit of this study. This research was conducted based  on  the  Life  Cycle Inventory  (LCI)  data  of  rice  and  Eucalyptus production  obtained from  a  field  study,  and  then  analyzed  water footprint profiles by  LCA  approach  through SimaPro  version  8.0.4.26. This  research  is  basically  carried  out  in  terms  of  carbon footprint,  water  footprint  and  sustainability  evaluation  and  the  latter  two  scopes  are analyzed by my co-researchers. For water footprint profile of rice production at midpoint level, five impact potentials such as  freshwater eutrophicaton,  marine   eutrophication,  freshwater  ecotoxicity,  marine ecotoxicity  and  water  depletion  are  evaluated. This study was used ReCiPe  midpoint (H) method,  and  the  results showed that the  most potential  water-related impacts for  both systems were freshwater   ecotoxicity because   of   pesticide consumption and   water depletion (m³)  as  a  result  of  water  irrigation with  the  value  of 1.5kg  (1,4-DB  to  fresh water), 2570 m³ and 1.71kg ( 1,4 DB to fresh water), 2570m3 for 1 tonne rice production farmed without and with Eucalyptus trees respectively. In this case, quantification of water scarcity level for these two systems, water scarcity indicator (WSI) are calculated by using water scarcity method(Hoekstra et al 2012), the results showed that the value of WSI for both  systems  were  definitely  same  and  also  water  scarcity potential was  being  in  low level. This research hence showed that the Eucalyptus-Rice based agroforestry system may not have water scarcity potential in this area
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