rosie saad

MScA candidate
(Chemical Engineering Department - cole Polytechnique de Montral)
hala-rosie.saad@polymtl.ca

Expertise :

• Biogeochemical and soil microbiology
  • Soil science, pedology
  • Life cycle impact assessment

Start: September 2007
Director: Louise Deschênes
Co-director:

Research project:

Development of a method assessing land use impacts within LCA

Project summary:

In addition to being a dynamic and integral component of the natural ecosystem, soil is also an essential resource for several land management and economical activities such as agriculture, mining, infrastructure, etc. Thus, in order to ensure its availability for future generations, the sustainable use of land requires informed decisions based on a meaningful impact assessment within the context of Life Cycle Analysis.

This project is in collaboration with the department of "Life Cycle Engineering (LBP) from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and" Environmental Science of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Switzerland), and is also part of the Working Group of the UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. The main goal is to provide a life cycle impact assessment method regarding land use activities. More particularly, it aims to develop a series of quantitative indicators based on soil ecological quality. 

Given the data spatial variability and the diversity of possible ecological scales (soil types, terrestrial ecoregions, countries and biomes), the method is mainly focused on characterizing the effects of land use and their bio-geographical differentiation. In addition, socio-economic factors are also considered in order to assess regionalized impacts with respect to the geographical location where the activity is taking place.

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Career path:

Master in Chemical Engineering (M.A. Sc.)
CIRAIG, École Polytechnique de Montréal, in course

Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
Specialization: Environment
École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2007