Michaliszyn-Gabryś, B.; Bronder, J.; Krupanek, J. Social Life Cycle Assessment of Laser Weed Control System: A Case Study. Sustainability2024, 16, 2590.
Michaliszyn-Gabryś, B.; Bronder, J.; Krupanek, J. Social Life Cycle Assessment of Laser Weed Control System: A Case Study. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2590.
Michaliszyn-Gabryś, B.; Bronder, J.; Krupanek, J. Social Life Cycle Assessment of Laser Weed Control System: A Case Study. Sustainability2024, 16, 2590.
Michaliszyn-Gabryś, B.; Bronder, J.; Krupanek, J. Social Life Cycle Assessment of Laser Weed Control System: A Case Study. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2590.
Abstract
Agriculture is an important sector of European Union in societal , economic and environmental dimensions. Sustainability of the sector require improvements in its key operations. Weeding is one of the crucial operation having impact on farms’ productivity, safety for farmers, food security and environmental state. To achieve EU policy goals of sustainable agriculture there are needed new technical and organizational solutions. One of the advanced techniques are laser based
weeding technique. It is important to understand well the impacts of introduction of these tech-niques to the markets and agricultural practice in sustainability context. For that reason Social Life Cycle Assessment was performed. The method was based on participatory approach. The as-sessment was carried in three perspectives: general society, farmers, and business perspective re-lated to agriculture. Expert interviews based on questionnaires and workshops were realized to get the opinions on the impacts of a new laser technique on particular aspects of its implementation. The results show generally positive impact in all perspectives, especially in the perspective of farmers.
Keywords
precision agriculture; weeding; laser based system; Social Life Cycle Assessment; sustainability
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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