Biography
Dave Styles is Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the University of Limerick. He specialises in environmental foot-printing and techno-economic assessment of food, bioproduct, energy and waste management systems, and has over 15 years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Bangor University and NUI Galway. He delivers MSc modules on the themes of engineering for net zero carbon, and the circular economy. His research group applies advanced LCA to investigate the sustainability of, inter alia, novel value chains for plant-protein foods & animal feeds, dairy products and bioenergy with a particular emphasis on understanding inter-system effects. Dave is PI/Co-I on 11 research projects, and leads the SeQUEsTER project identifying pathways towards carbon neutrality in the agriculture, forestry and land use sector. He is a member of the International Energy Agency Task 45 concerning the sustainability of bioenergy.
Publications
Book Chapter
Best Practice Application of LCM by Retailers to Improve Product Supply Chain Sustainability
Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald and Galvez-Martos, Jos'e Luis
Conference Publication
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Forster, EJ and Healey, JR and Dymond, CC and Newman, G and Davies, G and Styles, D
International Conference on Agricultural GHG Emissions and Food Security: Connecting research to policy and practice
Taft, Helen and Chadwick, D and Styles, David and Kipling, Richard and Moorby, Jon
68th Annual Meeting of the EAAP
Foskolos, Andreas and Gibbons, James and Gonzalez-MejiaGo, Alejandra and Moorby, Jonathan and Styles, David
INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY UK SECTION-CONFERENCE-C
Styles, D and Jones, MB
Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management: Proceedings of the 7th IWA International Conference, Dublin, Ireland
Irvine, KENNETH and Donohue, Ian and Wemaere, ALICE and Styles, DAVID and Hobbs, WILLIAM
Other Journal
Substituting wheat with chickpea flour in pasta production delivers more nutrition at a lower environmental cost
Saget, Sophie and Costa, Marcela and Barilli, Eleonora and Wilton-Vasconcelos, Marta and Santos, Carla Sancho and Styles, David and Williams, Mike
Sustainable Production and Consumption
Emissions down the drain: Balancing life cycle energy and greenhouse gas savings with resource use for heat recovery from kitchen drains
Schestak, Isabel and Spriet, Jan and Styles, David and Williams, A Prysor
Journal of Environmental Management
Just the tonic! Legume biorefining for alcohol has the potential to reduce Europe's protein deficit and mitigate climate change
Lienhardt, Theophile and Black, Kirsty and Saget, Sophie and Costa, Marcela Porto and Chadwick, David and Rees, Robert M and Williams, Michael and Spillane, Charles and Iannetta, Pietro M and Walker, Graeme and others
Environment international
Challenges to implementing greenhouse gas mitigation measures in Welsh livestock agriculture: A conceptual framework
Kipling, Richard Philip and Taft, Helen and Chadwick, Dave and Styles, Dave and Moorby, Jon
Th"unen Working Paper 103
Development of the EMAS Sectoral Reference Documents on Best Environmental Management Practice
Schoenberger, Harald and Canfora, Paolo and Dri, Marco and Galvez-Martos, Jose Luis and Styles, David and Antonopoulos, Ioannis Sofoklis
Learning from Frontrunners Promoting Best Practice. Publications Office of the European Union
Identified best environmental management practices to improve the energy performance of the retail trade sector in Europe
Galvez-Martos, Jose-Luis and Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald
Energy policy
Peer Reviewed Journal
Crafty Marketing: An Evaluation of Distinctive Criteria for “Craft” Beer
Morgan, Dyfed Rhys and Thomas Lane, Eifiona and Styles, David
Food Reviews International
Key performance indicators to explain energy & economic efficiency across water utilities, and identifying suitable proxies
Walker, Nathan L and Williams, A Prysor and Styles, David
Journal of Environmental Management
Region-specific emission factors for Brazil increase the estimate of nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertiliser application by 21%
Mazzetto, Andre M and Styles, David and Gibbons, James and Arndt, Claudia and Misselbrook, T and Chadwick, Dave
Atmospheric Environment
Recycling of European plastic is a pathway for plastic debris in the ocean
Bishop, George and Styles, David and Lens, Piet NL
Environment International
Consequential life cycle assessment of miscanthus livestock bedding, diverting straw to bioelectricity generation
Yesufu, Jalil and McCalmont, Jon P and Clifton-Brown, John C and Williams, Prysor and Hyland, John and Gibbons, James and Styles, David
GCB Bioenergy
Afforestation: Replacing livestock emissions with carbon sequestration
Duffy, Colm and O'Donoghue, Cathal and Ryan, Mary and Styles, David and Spillane, Charles
Journal of Environmental Management
Challenges to implementing greenhouse gas mitigation measures in livestock agriculture: A conceptual framework for policymakers
Kipling, Richard P and Taft, Helen E and Chadwick, David R and Styles, David and Moorby, Jon
Environmental Science & Policy
Diversification not specialization reduces global and local environmental burdens from livestock production
Soteriades, Andreas D and Foskolos, Andreas and Styles, David and Gibbons, James M
Environment international
Adapting stand-alone renewable energy technologies for the circular economy through eco-design and recycling
Gallagher, John and Basu, Biswajit and Browne, Maria and Kenna, Alan and McCormack, Sarah and Pilla, Francesco and Styles, David
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Implementation solutions for greenhouse gas mitigation measures in livestock agriculture: A framework for coherent strategy
Kipling, Richard P and Taft, Helen E and Chadwick, David R and Styles, David and Moorby, Jon
Environmental Science & Policy
Economic and environmental efficiency of UK and Ireland water companies: influence of exogenous factors and rurality
Walker, Nathan L and Norton, Andrew and Harris, Ian and Williams, A Prysor and Styles, David
Journal of environmental management
A life cycle assessment of the construction phase of eleven micro-hydropower installations in the UK
Ueda, T and Roberts, ES and Norton, A and Styles, D and Williams, AP and Ramos, HM and Gallagher, J
Journal of Cleaner Production
Data for life cycle assessment of legume biorefining for alcohol
Lienhardt, Theophile and Black, Kirsty and Saget, Sophie and Costa, Marcela Porto and Chadwick, David and Rees, Robert and Williams, Michael and Spillane, Charles and Iannetta, Pietro and Walker, Graeme and others
Data in brief
Closing nutrient loops through decentralized anaerobic digestion of organic residues in agricultural regions: A multi-dimensional sustainability assessment
Vaneeckhaute, C'eline and Styles, David and Prade, Thomas and Adams, Paul and Thelin, Gunnar and Rodhe, Lena and Gunnarsson, Inga and D’Hertefeldt, Tina
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Effects of high-sugar grasses and improved manure management on the environmental footprint of milk production at the farm level
Soteriades, Andreas D and Gonzalez-Mejia, Alejandra M and Styles, David and Foskolos, Andreas and Moorby, Jon M and Gibbons, James M
Journal of Cleaner Production
Using microalgae in the circular economy to valorise anaerobic digestate: challenges and opportunities
Stiles, William AV and Styles, David and Chapman, Stephen P and Esteves, Sandra and Bywater, Angela and Melville, Lynsey and Silkina, Alla and Lupatsch, Ingrid and Gr"unewald, Claudio Fuentes and Lovitt, Robert and others
Bioresource technology
Climate mitigation by dairy intensification depends on intensive use of spared grassland
Styles, David and Gonzalez-Mejia, Alejandra and Moorby, Jon and Foskolos, Andreas and Gibbons, James
Global change biology
Life cycle assessment of biofertilizer production and use compared with conventional liquid digestate management
Styles, David and Adams, Paul and Thelin, Gunnar and Vaneeckhaute, Céline and Chadwick, David and Withers, Paul JA
Environmental science & technology
Construction and demolition waste best management practice in Europe
G'alvez-Martos, Jos'e-Luis and Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald and Zeschmar-Lahl, Barbara
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Corrigendum to" Effects of high-sugar grasses and improved manure management on the environmental footprint of milk production at the farm level"[J. Clean. Prod. 202 (2018) 1241-1252]
Soteriades, Andreas Diomedes and Mejia, Alejandra Gonzalez and Styles, David and Foskolos, Andreas and Moorby, Jon and Gibbons, James M
Journal of Cleaner Production
Metrics and methods for characterizing dairy farm intensification using farm survey data
Gonzalez-Mejia, Alejandra and Styles, David and Wilson, Paul and Gibbons, James
PloS one
The impact of pay-as-you-throw schemes on municipal solid waste management: The exemplar case of the county of Aschaffenburg, Germany
Morlok, Juergen and Schoenberger, Harald and Styles, David and Galvez-Martos, Jose-Luis and Zeschmar-Lahl, Barbara
Resources
Intensification trends among UK dairy farms from 2001-2014.
Gonz'alez-Mej'ia, AM and Styles, D and Wilson, P and Gibbons, J and others
Aspects of Applied Biology
Greenhouse gas mitigation of rural household biogas systems in China: a life cycle assessment
Hou, Jun and Zhang, Weifeng and Wang, Pei and Dou, Zhengxia and Gao, Liwei and Styles, David
Energies
Improving livestock production efficiencies presents a major opportunity to reduce sectoral greenhouse gas emissions
Hyland, JJ and Styles, D and Jones, DL and Williams, AP
Agricultural Systems
Climate regulation, energy provisioning and water purification: Quantifying ecosystem service delivery of bioenergy willow grown on riparian buffer zones using life cycle assessment
Styles, David and B"orjesson, Paal and d’Hertefeldt, Tina and Birkhofer, Klaus and Dauber, Jens and Adams, Paul and Patil, Sopan and Pagella, Tim and Pettersson, Lars B and Peck, Philip and others
Ambio
Environmental balance of the UK biogas sector: An evaluation by consequential life cycle assessment
Styles, David and Dominguez, Eduardo Mesa and Chadwick, Dave
Science of the Total Environment
Inventory compilation for renewable energy systems: the pitfalls of materiality thresholds and priority impact categories using hydropower case studies
Gallagher, John and Styles, David and McNabola, Aonghus and Williams, A Prysor
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Water management in the European hospitality sector: Best practice, performance benchmarks and improvement potential
Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald and Galvez-Martos, Jos'e Luis
Tourism Management
Phosphorus sorption, supply potential and availability in soils with contrasting parent material and soil chemical properties
Daly, K and Styles, D and Lalor, S and Wall, DP
European Journal of Soil Science
Current and future environmental balance of small-scale run-of-river hydropower
Gallagher, John and Styles, David and McNabola, Aonghus and Williams, A Prysor
Environmental Science & Technology
Cattle feed or bioenergy? Consequential life cycle assessment of biogas feedstock options on dairy farms
Styles, David and Gibbons, James and Williams, Arwel Prysor and Stichnothe, Heinz and Chadwick, David Robert and Healey, John Robert
Gcb Bioenergy
Life cycle environmental balance and greenhouse gas mitigation potential of micro-hydropower energy recovery in the water industry
Gallagher, John and Styles, David and McNabola, Aonghus and Williams, A Prysor
Journal of Cleaner Production
Making green technology greener: Achieving a balance between carbon and resource savings through ecodesign in hydropower systems
Gallagher, John and Styles, David and McNabola, Aonghus and Williams, A Prysor
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Consequential life cycle assessment of biogas, biofuel and biomass energy options within an arable crop rotation
Styles, David and Gibbons, James and Williams, Arwel P and Dauber, Jens and Stichnothe, Heinz and Urban, Barbara and Chadwick, David R and Jones, Davey L
Gcb Bioenergy
Assessing the impact of within crop heterogeneity (‘patchiness’) in young Miscanthus$times$ giganteus fields on economic feasibility and soil carbon sequestration
Zimmermann, Jesko and Styles, David and Hastings, Astley and Dauber, Jens and Jones, Michael B
Gcb Bioenergy
Energy recovery in the water industry using micro-hydropower: an opportunity to improve sustainability
McNabola, Aonghus and Coughlan, Paul and Corcoran, Lucy and Power, Christine and Prysor Williams, A and Harris, Ian and Gallagher, John and Styles, David
Water Policy
Evidence on the environmental impacts of farm land abandonment in high altitude/mountain regions: a systematic map
Haddaway, Neal R and Styles, David and Pullin, Andrew S
Environmental Evidence
Environmental impacts of farm land abandonment in high altitude/mountain regions: a systematic map of the evidence
Haddaway, Neal R and Styles, David and Pullin, Andrew S
Environmental Evidence
Hemp: a more sustainable annual energy crop for climate and energy policy
Finnan, John and Styles, David
Energy Policy
Case study evidence that direct regulation remains the main driver of industrial pollution avoidance and may benefit operational efficiency
Testa, Francesco and Styles, David and Iraldo, Fabio
Journal of Cleaner Production
Environmental improvement of product supply chains: A review of European retailers’ performance
Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald and Galvez-Martos, Jose-Luis
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Environmental improvement of product supply chains: Proposed best practice techniques, quantitative indicators and benchmarks of excellence for retailers
Styles, David and Schoenberger, Harald and Galvez-Martos, Jose-Luis
Journal of environmental management
Using a Strategic Environmental Assessment framework to quantify the environmental impact of bioenergy plans
Finnan, John and Styles, David and Fitzgerald, Joanne and Connolly, John and Donnelly, Alison
Gcb Bioenergy
Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications
Dauber, Jens and Brown, Chris and Fernando, Ana Luisa and Finnan, John and Krasuska, Ewa and Ponitka, Jens and Styles, David and Thr"an, Daniela and Van Groenigen, Kees Jan and Weih, Martin and others
BioRisk
A proposed framework for determining the environmental impact of replacing agricultural grassland with Miscanthus in Ireland
Donnelly, Alison and Styles, David and Fitzgerald, Joanne and Finnan, John
Gcb Bioenergy
Measuring the environmental performance of IPPC industry: II. Applying the Environmental Emissions Index to quantify environmental performance trends from routinely reported data
Styles, David and O’Leary, Eileen and Jones, Michael B
Environmental science & policy
Measuring the environmental performance of IPPC industry: I. Devising a quantitative science-based and policy-weighted Environmental Emissions Index
Styles, David and O’brien, Phillip and O’Boyle, Shane and Cunningham, Peter and Donlon, Brian and Jones, Michael B
environmental science & policy
A quantitative integrated assessment of pollution prevention achieved by Integrated Pollution Prevention Control licensing
Styles, David and O'Brien, Kieran and Jones, Michael B
Environment International
Miscanthus and willow heat production—An effective land-use strategy for greenhouse gas emission avoidance in Ireland?
Styles, David and Jones, Michael B
Energy Policy
Energy crops in Ireland: an economic comparison of willow and Miscanthus production with conventional farming systems
Styles, David and Thorne, Fiona and Jones, Michael B
Biomass and Bioenergy
Life-cycle environmental and economic impacts of energy-crop fuel-chains: an integrated assessment of potential GHG avoidance in Ireland
Styles, David and Jones, Michael B
environmental science & policy
Meteorological and management influences on seasonal variation in phosphorus fractions extracted from soils in western Ireland
Styles, David and Coxon, Catherine
Geoderma
Current and future financial competitiveness of electricity and heat from energy crops: A case study from Ireland
Styles, David and Jones, Michael B
Energy Policy
Energy crops in Ireland: quantifying the potential life-cycle greenhouse gas reductions of energy-crop electricity
Styles, David and Jones, Michael B
Biomass and Bioenergy
Linking soil phosphorus to water quality in the Mask catchment of western Ireland through the analysis of moist soil samples
Styles, David and Donohue, Ian and Coxon, Catherine and Irvine, Kenneth
Agriculture, ecosystems & environment
Laboratory drying of organic-matter rich soils: Phosphorus solubility effects, influence of soil characteristics, and consequences for environmental interpretation
Styles, David and Coxon, Catherine
Geoderma
Importance of spatial and temporal patterns for assessment of risk of diffuse nutrient emissions to surface waters
Donohue, Ian and Styles, David and Coxon, Catherine and Irvine, Kenneth
Journal of Hydrology
Published Report
Implementation of the Climate-Smart village approach
N"ageli Juan, Laia and Murray, Una and McKeown, Peter C and Styles, David and Spillane, Charles and Bonilla Findji, Osana and Mart'inez Bar'on, Deissy
Best environmental management pratice for the agriculture sector - crop and animal production
Antonopoulos, I., Canfora, P., Dri, M., Guadillat, P. Styles, D., Williamson, J., Jewer, A., Haddaway, N., Price, M.
Best environmental management practice in the retail trade sector
Sch"onberger, Harald and Martos, Jose Luis Galvez and Styles, David
European Commission JRC Scientific And Policy Reports. Learning from frontrunners
Best environmental management practice in the tourism sector
Styles, David and Sch"onberger, Harald and Galvez Martos, JL
Emissions from IPPC Industry: Quantifying Pollution Trends and Regulatory Effectiveness
Styles, David and Jones, Michael
Energy crops in Ireland: An assessment of their potential contribution to sustainable agriculture, electricity and heat production
Styles, David and Jones, Michael B
EPA, Wexford, Johnstown Castle
Eutrophication from agricultural sources--phosphorus chemistry of mineral and peat soils in Ireland
Daly, K and Styles, D
Final Report. EPA, Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford, Ireland
Eutrophication from Agricultural Sources: Phosphorus Chemistry of Mineral and Peat Soils in Ireland (2000-LS-2.1. 1b-M2)
Daly, Karen and Styles, David