This method is taken from http://www.esu-services.ch/projects/ubp06/ (23-May 2008), with adaptations by PR้ Consultants as described below. The characterisation factors have first been implemented by ESU-services Ltd. All files are provided without liability.
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Ecological Scarcity 2006 is a follow up of the Ecological scarcity 1997 method, which is called Ecopoints 97 (CH) in the SimaPro method library (superseded). The ecoinvent implementation contains seven specific impact categories, with for each substance a final UBP (environmental loading points) score as characterisation factor. This method only contains the impact category Natural resources containing only water resources. The complete method can be found in the European methods category.
Other adaptation (February 2014, version 1.09):
- Added factors for regionalized flows starting with "Water, cooling, unspecified natural origin" and "Water, turbine use, unspecified natural origin".
Other adaptation (August 2014, version 1.10):
Added water flows based on new ecoinvent regions, assuming the factors are the same for the following equivalent regions:
IAI Area 1 (Africa) = RAF (Africa)
IAI Area 2, without Quebec (North America) = RNA (North America)
IAI Area 3 (South America) = RLA (Latin America)
IAI Area 4&5 without China (Asia) = RAS (Asia)
IAI Area 8 (Gulf region) = SA (Saudi Arabia)
UN-EUROPE = RER (Europe)
UN-OCEANIA = AU (Australia)