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  1. Lifestyle change modelling for climate change mitigation: Complementary strengths, policy support, and research avenues

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  2. CO 2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  3. Carbon footprint reduction potential of consumption changes in five European countries in 2015, 2030, and 2050

    Article • Sustainable Production and Consumption, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  4. Climate and biodiversity targets require larger reductions in animal-sourced foods from current higher-income levels

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  5. Water temperature regulations could help to balance biodiversity and energy security

    Article • Nature Reviews Biodiversity, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  6. Fish functional diversity responses to total phosphorus in the rivers of the Baltic Sea catchment area

    Article • Environmental Pollution, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  7. Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary discussion series

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  8. Exploring the Spatial Relationship Between Carbon Storage and Biodiversity: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, March 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  9. Two-thirds of agricultural carbon and biodiversity loss occurs on one-third of the agricultural area

    Article • February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  10. MiPrime: A model for the microbially mediated impacts of organic amendments on measurable soil organic carbon fractions and associated priming effects

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  11. Land‐Use Impacts on Plant Functional Diversity Throughout Europe

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  12. Conceptual framework for considering animal welfare in sustainability assessments of foods

    Article • Sustainable Production and Consumption, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  13. Midpoint characterization factors to assess impacts of turbine water use from hydropower production

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  14. Preferences, enablers, and barriers for 1.5°C lifestyle options: Findings from Citizen Thinking Labs in five European Union countries

    Article • Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  15. Climate adaptation through crop migration requires a nexus perspective for environmental sustainability in the North China Plain

    Article • Nature Food, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  16. Animal Lives Affected by Meat Consumption Trends in the G20 Countries

    Article • Animals, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  17. Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  18. FAO’s 1.5 °C roadmap for food systems falls short

    Article • Nature Food, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  19. (In)Sufficiency of industrial decarbonization to reduce household carbon footprints to 1.5°C-compatible levels

    Article • Sustainable Production and Consumption, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  20. A protein transition can free up land to tap vast energy and negative emission potentials

    Article • One Earth, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  21. Global regionalized characterization factors for phosphorus and nitrogen impacts on freshwater fish biodiversity

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  22. Enforcing and improving water data reporting in the energy system is urgently needed

    Article • Next Energy, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  23. Frontiers 2023. What’s Cooking? An assessment of the potential impacts of selected novel alternatives to conventional animal products

    Article • December 2023, United Nations Environment Programme

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  24. Animal lives embodied in food loss and waste

    Article • Sustainable Production and Consumption, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  25. Biodiversity Impact Assessment Considering Land Use Intensities and Fragmentation

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, November 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  26. Contrasting effects of different organic amendments on the microbial responses to extreme temperature changes

    Article • Geoderma, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  27. Environmental impacts of cotton and opportunities for improvement

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  28. Ecovoltaics: Framework and future research directions to reconcile land-based solar power development with ecosystem conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  29. Prioritization of fish welfare issues in European salmonid aquaculture using the Delphi method

    Article • Aquaculture, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  30. Characterization factors for the impact of climate change on freshwater fish species

    Article • Ecological Indicators, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  31. Temporal variability in organic amendment impacts on hydro‐physical properties of sandy agricultural soils

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, May 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  32. Effects of Nitrogen Emissions on Fish Species Richness across the World’s Freshwater Ecoregions

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  33. Climate change threats to the global functional diversity of freshwater fish

    Article • Global Change Biology, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  34. Offshore Wind Energy and Marine Biodiversity in the North Sea: Life Cycle Impact Assessment for Benthic Communities

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, April 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  35. Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, February 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  36. Global water consumption impacts on riverine fish species richness in Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  37. Environmental impacts of meat and meat replacements

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  38. Adoption of plant-based diets across Europe can improve food resilience against the Russia–Ukraine conflict

    Article • Nature Food, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  39. Global extinction probabilities of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species groups for use in Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • Ecological Indicators, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  40. Relationships of priming effects with organic amendment composition and soil microbial properties

    Article • Geoderma, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  41. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation

    Article • Nature Sustainability, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  42. A Comparison Between Global Nutrient Retention Models for Freshwater Systems

    Article • Frontiers in Water, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  43. Letter to the editor re: “The scarcity-weighted water footprint provides unreliable water sustainability scoring” by

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  44. Global Human Consumption Threatens Key Biodiversity Areas

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  45. The Role of Different Types of Actors In The Future of Sustainable Agriculture In a Dutch Peri-urban Area

    Article • Environmental Management, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  46. Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts

    Article • Sustainability Science, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  47. Characterization factors for ocean acidification impacts on marine biodiversity

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  48. Climate change and CCS increase the water vulnerability of China's thermoelectric power fleet

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  49. Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss

    Article • Ecological Economics, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  50. Biodiversity Loss from Freshwater Use for China’s Electricity Generation

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, February 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  51. Dietary change in high-income nations alone can lead to substantial double climate dividend

    Article • Nature Food, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  52. Regionalized nitrogen fate in freshwater systems on a global scale

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  53. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production: an expert elicitation

    Article • December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  54. Species loss from land use of oil palm plantations in Thailand

    Article • Ecological Indicators, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  55. Linking land use inventories to biodiversity impact assessment methods

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  56. Overlooked benefits of a staple food transition

    Article • Nature Food, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  57. Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target

    Article • Global Environmental Change, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  58. The energy-water nexus of China’s interprovincial and seasonal electric power transmission

    Article • Applied Energy, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  59. Closing yield and harvest area gaps to mitigate water scarcity related to China’s rice production

    Article • Agricultural Water Management, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  60. Environmental impacts of the nutrition transition and potential hunger eradication in emerging countries

    Article • Sustainability Science, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  61. China's potential SO2 emissions from coal by 2050

    Article • Energy Policy, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  62. Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  63. Water scarcity footprint of hydropower based on a seasonal approach - Global assessment with sensitivities of model assumptions tested on specific cases

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  64. Characterizing Land Use Impacts on Functional Plant Diversity for Life Cycle Assessments

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  65. Balancing food production within the planetary water boundary

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  66. Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  67. Opportunity for a Dietary Win-Win-Win in Nutrition, Environment, and Animal Welfare

    Article • One Earth, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  68. Life Cycle Assessment of Food Systems

    Article • One Earth, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  69. Water use of electricity technologies: A global meta-analysis

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  70. Linking global crop and livestock consumption to local production hotspots

    Article • Global Food Security, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  71. A MCDM-based framework for selection of general circulation models and projection of spatio-temporal rainfall changes: A case study of Nigeria

    Article • Atmospheric Research, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Shamsuddin Shahid , Dr. Laura Scherer

  72. Advancing the application of a model-independent open-source geospatial tool for national-scale spatiotemporal simulations

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  73. Water-scarcity footprints and water productivities indicate unsustainable wheat production in China

    Article • Agricultural Water Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  74. BRIC and MINT countries' environmental impacts rising despite alleviative consumption patterns

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  75. Trade-offs between social and environmental Sustainable Development Goals

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  76. Environmental responsibility for sulfur dioxide emissions and associated biodiversity loss across Chinese provinces

    Article • Environmental Pollution, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  77. A Multimedia Hydrological Fate Modeling Framework To Assess Water Consumption Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  78. Greenhouse gas emissions of hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, January 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  79. Mapping and linking supply- and demand-side measures in climate-smart agriculture. A review

    Article • Agronomy for Sustainable Development, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  80. Framework for integrating animal welfare into life cycle sustainability assessment

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  81. Linking country level food supply to global land and water use and biodiversity impacts: The case of Finland

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  82. Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016) “A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA”

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  83. Global water footprint assessment of hydropower

    Article • Renewable Energy, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  84. Expanding Kenya's protected areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity to maximize coverage of plant diversity

    Article • Conservation Biology, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  85. Hydropower's Biogenic Carbon Footprint

    Article • PLOS One, September 2016, PLOS

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  86. Global Biodiversity Loss by Freshwater Consumption and Eutrophication from Swiss Food Consumption

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, July 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  87. Dealing with uncertainty in water scarcity footprints

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  88. Uncertainty analysis of the environmental sustainability of biofuels

    Article • Energy Sustainability and Society, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  89. Large-Scale Hydrological Modeling for Calculating Water Stress Indices: Implications of Improved Spatiotemporal Resolution, Surface-Groundwater Differentiation, and Uncertainty Characterization

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, April 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  90. Modelling spatially explicit impacts from phosphorus emissions in agriculture

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Scherer

  91. The challenge of sample-stabilisation in the era of multi-residue analytical methods: A practical guideline for the stabilisation of 46 organic micropollutants in aqueous samples

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Scherer