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Martin Dorber

Martin Dorber

Researcher, Industrial Ecology Programme
Department of Energy and Process Engineering

martin.dorber@ntnu.no
Realfagbygget, E4-158B, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 5, 7034 Trondheim
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About

Martin Dorber is a researcher at the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU.

My key research interests are to understand how anthropogenic pressures (e.g., a product) are impacting biodiversity and how we can minimize these impacts for a transition into a more sustainable world.  

More specifically I am focusing on the filed of life cycle assessment (LCA), where my research aim is to complement models that are quantifying ecosystem quality damages, with focus on aquatic, marine and terrestrial biodiversity. Currently, I am working on developing models for water consumption and water use, climate change, land use change, invasive species, marine plastic debris and ecosystem services.

In addition, I am working for several workgroups of the UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative on ecosystem quality within Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA).

Area of work

  • Water use
  • Climate change 
  • Whales, waste and sea walnuts

Education

  • 2019: PhD, Industrial Ecology, NTNU, Trondheim 
    • Quantifying biodiversity impacts of hydropower electricity production within the framework of Life Cycle Assessment

  • Master of Science, Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  • Bachelor of Science, Environmental Nature Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

Other interests

  • Wildlife-Photography 
  • Running
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Fishing

Publications

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2023

  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Barbarossa, Valerio; Núñez, Montserrat; Scherer, Laura; Link, Andreas; Damiani, Mattia. (2023) Corrigendum to “Global water consumption impacts on riverine fish species richness in Life Cycle Assessment” [Sci. Total Environ. 854 (2023) 158702] (Science of the Total Environment (2023) 854, (S0048969722058016), (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158702)). Science of the Total Environment
    Errata
  • Dorber, Martin; Panzacchi, Manuela; Strand, Olav; Van Moorter, Bram. (2023) New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower. Ambio
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Laurent, Alexis; Dorber, Martin; Rygaard, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Hauschild, Michael. (2023) Advancing water footprint assessments: Combining the impacts of water pollution and scarcity. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Dorber, Martin; de Graaf, Inge; Laurent, Alexis; Hauschild, Michael; Rygaard, Martin. (2023) Multicompartment Depletion Factors for Water Consumption on a Global Scale. Environmental Science and Technology
    Academic article

2022

  • Sanyé‑Mengual, E; Valente, António; Biganzoli, F; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Marques, Alexandra. (2022) Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
    Academic article
  • Li, Dan; Dorber, Martin; Barbarossa, Valerio; Verones, Francesca. (2022) Global characterization factors for quantifying the impacts of increasing water temperature on freshwater fish. Ecological Indicators
    Academic article
  • Verones, Francesca; Kuipers, Koen Jacobus Josefus; Núñez, Montserrat; Rosa, Francesca; Scherer, Laura; Marques, Alexandra. (2022) Global extinction probabilities of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species groups for use in Life Cycle Assessment. Ecological Indicators
    Academic article
  • Borgelt, Jan; Dorber, Martin; Høiberg, Marthe Alnes; Verones, Francesca. (2022) More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction. Communications Biology
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Barbarossa, Valerio; Núñez, Montserrat; Scherer, Laura; Link, Andreas; Damiani, Mattia. (2022) Global water consumption impacts on riverine fish species richness in Life Cycle Assessment . Science of the Total Environment
    Academic literature review
  • Næss, Jan Sandstad; Hu, Xiangping; Gvein, Maren Haug; Iordan, Cristina Maria; Cavalett, Otávio; Dorber, Martin. (2022) Climate change mitigation potentials of biofuels produced from perennial crops and natural regrowth on abandoned and degraded cropland in Nordic countries. Journal of Environmental Management
    Academic article

2021

  • Leirpoll, Malene Eldegard; Næss, Jan Sandstad; Cavalett, Otávio; Dorber, Martin; Hu, Xiangping; Cherubini, Francesco. (2021) Optimal combination of bioenergy and solar photovoltaic for renewable energy production on abandoned cropland. Renewable Energy
    Academic article

2020

  • Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Nakaoka, Masahiro; Sudo, Kenji. (2020) Can we locate shrimp aquaculture areas from space? – A case study for Thailand. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE)
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; Arvesen, Anders; Gernaat, David; Verones, Francesca. (2020) Controlling biodiversity impacts of future global hydropower reservoirs by strategic site selection. Scientific Reports
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; Kuipers, Koen; Verones, Francesca. (2020) Global characterization factors for terrestrial biodiversity impacts of future land inundation in Life Cycle Assessment. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic literature review

2019

  • Dorber, Martin; Mattson, Kim Rainer; Sandlund, Odd Terje; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2019) Quantifying net water consumption of Norwegian hydropower reservoirs and related aquatic biodiversity impacts in Life Cycle Assessment . Environmental impact assessment review
    Academic article

2018

  • Dorber, Martin; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Modeling net land occupation of hydropower reservoirs in Norway for use in life cycle assessment. Environmental Science and Technology
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Barbarossa, Valerio; Núñez, Montserrat; Scherer, Laura; Link, Andreas; Damiani, Mattia. (2023) Corrigendum to “Global water consumption impacts on riverine fish species richness in Life Cycle Assessment” [Sci. Total Environ. 854 (2023) 158702] (Science of the Total Environment (2023) 854, (S0048969722058016), (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158702)). Science of the Total Environment
    Errata
  • Dorber, Martin; Panzacchi, Manuela; Strand, Olav; Van Moorter, Bram. (2023) New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower. Ambio
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Laurent, Alexis; Dorber, Martin; Rygaard, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Hauschild, Michael. (2023) Advancing water footprint assessments: Combining the impacts of water pollution and scarcity. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Dorber, Martin; de Graaf, Inge; Laurent, Alexis; Hauschild, Michael; Rygaard, Martin. (2023) Multicompartment Depletion Factors for Water Consumption on a Global Scale. Environmental Science and Technology
    Academic article
  • Sanyé‑Mengual, E; Valente, António; Biganzoli, F; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Marques, Alexandra. (2022) Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
    Academic article
  • Li, Dan; Dorber, Martin; Barbarossa, Valerio; Verones, Francesca. (2022) Global characterization factors for quantifying the impacts of increasing water temperature on freshwater fish. Ecological Indicators
    Academic article
  • Verones, Francesca; Kuipers, Koen Jacobus Josefus; Núñez, Montserrat; Rosa, Francesca; Scherer, Laura; Marques, Alexandra. (2022) Global extinction probabilities of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species groups for use in Life Cycle Assessment. Ecological Indicators
    Academic article
  • Borgelt, Jan; Dorber, Martin; Høiberg, Marthe Alnes; Verones, Francesca. (2022) More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction. Communications Biology
    Academic article
  • Pierrat, Eleonore; Barbarossa, Valerio; Núñez, Montserrat; Scherer, Laura; Link, Andreas; Damiani, Mattia. (2022) Global water consumption impacts on riverine fish species richness in Life Cycle Assessment . Science of the Total Environment
    Academic literature review
  • Næss, Jan Sandstad; Hu, Xiangping; Gvein, Maren Haug; Iordan, Cristina Maria; Cavalett, Otávio; Dorber, Martin. (2022) Climate change mitigation potentials of biofuels produced from perennial crops and natural regrowth on abandoned and degraded cropland in Nordic countries. Journal of Environmental Management
    Academic article
  • Leirpoll, Malene Eldegard; Næss, Jan Sandstad; Cavalett, Otávio; Dorber, Martin; Hu, Xiangping; Cherubini, Francesco. (2021) Optimal combination of bioenergy and solar photovoltaic for renewable energy production on abandoned cropland. Renewable Energy
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Nakaoka, Masahiro; Sudo, Kenji. (2020) Can we locate shrimp aquaculture areas from space? – A case study for Thailand. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE)
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; Arvesen, Anders; Gernaat, David; Verones, Francesca. (2020) Controlling biodiversity impacts of future global hydropower reservoirs by strategic site selection. Scientific Reports
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; Kuipers, Koen; Verones, Francesca. (2020) Global characterization factors for terrestrial biodiversity impacts of future land inundation in Life Cycle Assessment. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic literature review
  • Dorber, Martin; Mattson, Kim Rainer; Sandlund, Odd Terje; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2019) Quantifying net water consumption of Norwegian hydropower reservoirs and related aquatic biodiversity impacts in Life Cycle Assessment . Environmental impact assessment review
    Academic article
  • Dorber, Martin; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Modeling net land occupation of hydropower reservoirs in Norway for use in life cycle assessment. Environmental Science and Technology
    Academic article

Teaching

Courses

  • TEP4220 - Environmental impact indicators for decision support

Media

2023

  • Lecture
    Verones, Francesca; Pettersen, Johan Berg; Dorber, Martin. (2023) Development of an Effect factor for marine plastics’ impact on cultural ecosystem service. International Society for Industrial Ecology 11th International conference on industrial ecology , Leiden, the Netherlands 2023-07-02 - 2023-07-05
  • Academic lecture
    Verones, Francesca; Dorber, Martin; Pettersen, Johan Berg. (2023) Development of an Effect factor for marine plastics’ impact on cultural ecosystem service. International Society for Industrial Ecology ISIE 2023 Conference “Transitions in a world in turmoil" , Leiden, the Netherlands 2023-07-01 - 2023-07-05

2022

  • Academic lecture
    Panzacchi, Manuela; Van Moorter, Bram; Kivimäki, Illka; Saerens, Marco; Strand, Olav; Tveraa, Torkild. (2022) Statistical tools to quantify cumulative impacts on nature & simulate effects of development or mitigation measures . NVE Norges Energidager 2022 , Oslo 2022-10-20 - 2022-10-21
  • Lecture
    Song, Fei; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Pettersen, Johan Berg. (2022) Integrate the impact of marine plastic debris on carbon sequestration into life cycle impact assessment . The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan EcoBalance 2022 , Fukuoka 2022-10-30 - 2022-11-02
  • Poster
    Song, Fei; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Pettersen, Johan Berg. (2022) Suffocating the ocean: modeling the impacts of plastic debris on carbon sequestration. SETAC SETAC Europe 32nd Annual Meeting , Copenhagen 2022-05-15 - 2022-05-19
  • Lecture
    Song, Fei; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; Pettersen, Johan Berg. (2022) Development of an effect factor for marine plastics’ impact on marine carbon sequestration. LCA Discussion Forum 82nd LCA Discussion Forum Addressing the issue of plastic pollution: status quo and the way forward , Zurich 2022-11-04 - 2022-11-04

2019

  • Academic lecture
    Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca. (2019) A new framework to assess aquatic biodiversity impacts of non-consumptive water use from reservoirs in Life Cycle Assessment. ISIE 2019 2019-07-07 - 2019-07-11

2018

  • Interview
    Bazilchuk, Nancy Reney; Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Land under water: Estimating hydropower’s land use impacts. https://geminiresearchnews.com/2018/03/land-water-estimating https://geminiresearchnews.com/2018/03/land-water-estimating [Internet] 2018-03-15
  • Academic lecture
    Dorber, Martin; Arvesen, Anders; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Using life cycle impact assessment to predict site-specific ecological impacts of remaining global hydropower potentials. EcoBalance . EcoBalance 2018 2018-10-09 - 2018-10-21
  • Poster
    Dorber, Martin; Sandlund, Odd Terje; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Towards Sustainable Renewables - A potential biodiversity trade-off ? . Energiforskningskonferansen 2018 , Oslo 2018-05-30 - 2018-05-30
  • Poster
    Dorber, Martin; May, Roelof Frans; Sandlund, Odd Terje; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Impacts of flow alteration on aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment: the case of Norwegian hydropower . Gordon Research Seminar on Industrial Ecology (GRS) , Les Diablerets 2018-05-19 - 2018-05-20
  • Poster
    Dorber, Martin; May, Roelof Frans; Sandlund, Odd Terje; Verones, Francesca. (2018) Impacts of flow alteration on aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment: the case of Norwegian hydropower . Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (GRC) , Les Diablerets 2018-05-20 - 2018-05-25

2017

  • Poster
    Dorber, Martin; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2017) Characterization Factors for hydropower production impacts on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment . ISIE-ISSST 2017 Conference , Chicago 2017-06-25 - 2017-06-29
  • Academic lecture
    Dorber, Martin; Mattson, Kim Rainer; Sandlund, Odd Terje; May, Roelof Frans; Verones, Francesca. (2017) Life Cycle Assessment of water consumption impacts from hydropower reservoirs on aquatic biodiversity in Norway. HydroEco 2017 Conference , Birmingham 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-23

2016

  • Academic lecture
    Dorber, Martin; Verones, Francesca; May, Roelof Frans. (2016) Terrestrial biodiversity loss in Norway due to hydropower production: A Life Cycle Assessment approach. Sfécologie 2016-International Conference of Ecological Sciences , Marseille 2016-10-24 - 2016-10-28
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