Dr. sc. Deborah Scharfy

Work at ZHAW

Position

Teacher

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. ETH / Ecology
  ETH Zurich
  10 / 2005 - 07 / 2009
• Diploma / Agricultural Biology
  University of Hohenheim
  08 / 2000 - 08 / 2005

Continuing Education

CAS Higher Education Didactics
PHZH
07 / 2014

Projects

• Agriculture and more / Team member / completed
• Global Greenhouse Impact Model / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Scharfy, D., Boccali, N. and Stucki, M. (2017) 'Clean technologies in agriculture : how to prioritise measures?', Sustainability, 9(8). doi: 10.3390/su9081303.
• Wettstein, S. et al. (2017) 'The environmental mitigation potential of photovoltaic-powered irrigation in the production of South African maize', Sustainability, 9(1772). doi: 10.3390/su9101772.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Keller, R. et al. (2018) 'Assessment of cleantech options to mitigate the environmental impact of South African dairy farming', in Benetto, E., Gericke, K., and Guiton, M. (eds) Designing sustainable technologies, products and policies : from science to innovation. Springer. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3712.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Eymann, L. et al. (2015) 'LCA of clean technologies in food value chains of emerging economies', in Conference Proceedings : International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for 'Feeding the Planet and Energy for Life'. ENEA, pp. 167–170.

Other publications

Wettstein, S. et al. (2016) 'South African maize production : mitigating environmental impacts through solar powered irrigation', in Proceedings of LCA Food 2016.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Keller, R. et al. (2017) 'Assessment of cleantech options to mitigate the environmental impact of South African dairy and maize farming', in Life Cycle Management (LCM) 2017, Luxembourg, 3.-6. September 2017.
• Stucki, M., Wettstein, S. and Scharfy, D. (2017) 'Green technologies for food production : the mitigation potential in cereal, fruit and dairy value chains', in 6th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2017), Cape Town, South Africa, 27-28 January 2017.
• Wettstein, S. et al. (2016) 'Mitigating environmental impacts from agriculture in emerging economies : a case study of solar powered irrigation in the South African maize production', in 5th International EcoSummit Congress, EcoSummit 2016, Montpellier, France, 29. August - 1. September 2016.

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