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Anne-Marie Boulay

General Director, Professor

Polytechnique Montreal
« J’aborde ce rôle avec enthousiasme et un profond sens des responsabilités. Je suis honorée de diriger la merveilleuse équipe du CIRAIG vers un avenir qui présente des défis et des opportunités accrus, et j’ai hâte de continuer à bâtir l’excellence et la pertinence en développant l’aide à la décision en matière de développement durable. »

AnneMarie Boulay graduated from Chemical Engineering at McGill University in 2006. After working as a consultant, she integrated CIRAIG’s team at École Polytechnique of Montreal and obtained her Ph.D. in 2013 on the assessment of water use impacts in LCA. It is for this work that she received the SETAC Europe Young Scientist Award in 2014. After more than 10 years on the topic of Life Cycle Impact Assessment, she has become an expert on water footprint, providing water footprint training for UNEP and ISO in developing countries around the world and she is the Canadian chair of ISO sub-committee on Life Cycle Assessment (TC207/SC5). She is now an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal and CIRAIG. She is currently chairing the WULCA working group on water use in LCA of UN Environment, the LEAP working group of FAO on water footprint and the MARILCA working group (UN Environment and FSLCI) on marine impacts, specifically plastic litter, in LCA. These working groups are leading the international consensus building processes and the scientific work into achieving harmonized methods for assessing important impact pathways in LCA, involving key method developers and stakeholders through international collaborative efforts.

Anne-Marie Boulay's Publications


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Cecilia Askham, Valentina H. Pauna, Anne-Marie Boulay, Peter Fantke, Olivier Jolliet, Jérôme Lavoie, Andy M. Booth, Claire Coutris, Francesca Verones, Miriam Weber, Martina G. Vijver, Amy Lusher, Carla Hajjar (2023) Generating environmental sampling and testing data for micro- and nanoplastics for use in life cycle impact assessment, Science of The Total Environment 859, p. 160038, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160038

Stephan Pfister, Laura Scherer, Anne-Marie Boulay, Masaharu Motoshita, Montserrat Núñez, Mattia Damiani, Alessandro Manzardo, Jing Huang, Andreas Link, Jonas Bunsen, Markus Berger (2022) Letter to the editor re: “The scarcity-weighted water footprint provides unreliable water sustainability scoring” by Vanham and Mekonnen, 2021, Science of The Total Environment 825, p. 154108, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2022.154108

Ivan Viveros Santos, Philippe Roux, Christel Renaud-Gentié, Annie Levasseur, Cécile Bulle, Anne-Marie Boulay (2022) Prospective life cycle assessment of viticulture under climate change scenarios, LCA Food

Ivan Viveros Santos, Annie Levasseur, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes, Anne-Marie Boulay () Modelling the influence of climate change on characterization factors for copper terrestrial ecotoxicity (submitted), Journal of Cleaner Production

Ivan Viveros Santos, Christel Renaud-Gentié, Philippe Roux, Annie Levasseur, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes, Anne-Marie Boulay () Prospective life cycle assessment of viticulture under climate change scenarios, application on two case studies in France (submitted), Science of The Total Environment

D. Maga, I. Vazquez-Rowe, Francesca Verones, Anne-Marie Boulay, Elena Corella-Puertas, Cecilia Askham () Plastic emissions to the environment – sources, quantities, pathways and impacts (submitted), Springer Handbook of Circular Plastics Economy

Elena Corella-Puertas, Anne-Marie Boulay (2022) Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of marine microplastic emissions and application on food packaging case studies, LCA Foods

Laura Debarre, Anne-Marie Boulay, Manuele Margni (2022) Freshwater consumption and domestic water deprivation in LCIA: revisiting the characterization of human health impacts, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 27(5), p. 740-754, doi:10.1007/s11367-022-02054-9

Elena Corella-Puertas, Pauline Guieu, Alessio Aufoujal, Cécile Bulle, Anne-Marie Boulay (2022) Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment, Journal of Industrial Ecology 26(6), p. 1882-1894, doi:10.1111/jiec.13269

Ali Malli, Elena Corella-Puertas, Carla Hajjar, Anne-Marie Boulay (2022) Transport mechanisms and fate of microplastics in estuarine compartments: A review, Marine Pollution Bulletin 177, Elsevier Ltd, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113553

Anne-Marie Boulay, Pascal Lesage, Ben Amor, Stephan Pfister (2021) Quantifying uncertainty for AWARE characterization factors, Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(6), p. 1588-1601, doi:10.1111/jiec.13173

Jérôme Lavoie, Anne-Marie Boulay, Cécile Bulle (2021) Aquatic micro‐ and nano‐plastics in life cycle assessment: Development of an effect factor for the quantification of their physical impact on biota, Journal of Industrial Ecology 26(6), p. 2123-2135, doi:10.1111/jiec.13140

Anne-Marie Boulay, Francesca Verones, Ian Vázquez-Rowe (2021) Marine plastics in LCA: current status and MarILCA’s contributions, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 26(11), p. 2105-2108, doi:10.1007/s11367-021-01975-1

Anne-Marie Boulay, Katrin Drastig, Amanullah, Ashok Chapagain, Veronica Charlon, Bárbara Civit, Camillo DeCamillis, Marlos De Souza, Tim Hess, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ridha Ibidhi, Michael J. Lathuillière, Alessandro Manzardo, Tim McAllister, Ricardo A. Morales, Masaharu Motoshita, Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares, Giacomo Pirlo, Brad Ridoutt, Valentina Russo, Gloria Salmoral, Ranvir Singh, Davy Vanham, Stephen Wiedemann, Weichao Zheng, Stephan Pfister (2021) Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership, Ecological Indicators 124, p. 107391, url, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391

Shooka Karimpour, Anne-Marie Boulay, Cécile Bulle (2021) Evaluation of sector-specific AWARE characterization factors for water scarcity footprint of electricity generation, Science of The Total Environment 753, p. 142063, url, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142063

John S. Woods, Francesca Verones, Olivier Jolliet, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Anne-Marie Boulay (2021) A framework for the assessment of marine litter impacts in life cycle impact assessment, Ecological Indicators 129, p. 107918, Elsevier, url, doi:10.1016/J.ECOLIND.2021.107918

Elena Corella-Puertas, Pauline Guieu, Alessio Aufoujal, Anne-Marie Boulay (2021) Comparative LCA of single-use food containers including potential impacts from marine plastics, 71st Canadian Engineering Conference

Carla Hajjar, Cécile Bulle, Anne-Marie Boulay (2020) The fate of microplastics in the marine environment, Life Cycle Innovation Conference

Anne-Marie Boulay, Leo Lenoir (2020) Sub-national regionalisation of the AWARE indicator for water scarcity footprint calculations, Ecological Indicators 111, p. 106017, url, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.106017

Jérôme Lavoie, Anne-Marie Boulay, Cécile Bulle (2020) Micro- and Nano- Plastics in LCA: Development of an aquatic ecotoxic effect factor, SETAC SciCon

Anders Bjørn, Sarah Sim, Anne-Marie Boulay, Henry King, Julie Clavreul, Wan Yee Lam, Valerio Barbarossa, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2020) A planetary boundary-based method for freshwater use in life cycle assessment: Development and application to a tomato production case study, Ecological Indicators 110, p. 105865, url, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105865

Anders Bjørn, Chanjief Chandrakumar, Anne-Marie Boulay, Gabor Doka, Kai Fang, Natacha Gondran, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Annemarie Kerkhof, Henry King, Manuele Margni, Sarah McLaren, Carina Mueller, Mikolaj Owsianiak, Greg Peters, Sandra Roos, Serenella Sala, Gustav Sandin, Sarah Sim, Marcial Vargas-Gonzalez, Morten Ryberg (2020) Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications, ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 15(8), TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab89d7

Anne-Marie Boulay, Lorenzo Benini, Serenella Sala (2020) Marginal and non-marginal approaches in characterization: how context and scale affect the selection of an adequate characterization model. The AWARE model example, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT 25(12), p. 2380-2392, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, doi:10.1007/s11367-019-01680-0

Carla Hajjar, Cécile Bulle, Anne-Marie Boulay (2020) The fate of microplastics in the marine environment, SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting

Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni, Laure Patouillard, Anne-Marie Boulay, Guillaume Bourgault, Vincent De Bruille, Viêt Cao, Michael Hauschild, Andrew Henderson, Sebastien Humbert, Sormeh Kashef-Haghighi, Anna Kounina, Alexis Laurent, Annie Levasseur, Gladys Liard, Ralph K Rosenbaum, Pierre-Olivier Roy, Shanna Shaked, Peter Fantke, Olivier Jolliet (2019) IMPACT World+: a globally regionalized life cycle impact assessment method, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, url, doi:10.1007/s11367-019-01583-0

Anne-Marie Boulay, Léo Lenoir, Alessandro Manzardo (2019) Bridging the Data Gap in the Water Scarcity Footprint by Using Crop-Specific AWARE Factors, Water 11(12), p. 2634, url, doi:10.3390/w11122634

Charlotte Pradinaud, Stephen Northey, Ben Amor, Jane Bare, Lorenzo Benini, Markus Berger, Anne-Marie Boulay, Guillaume Junqua, Michael J. Lathuilliere, Manuele Margni, Masaharu Motoshita, Briana Niblick, Sandra Payen, Stephan Pfister, Paula Quinteiro, Thomas Sonderegger, Ralph K. Rosenbaum (2019) Defining freshwater as a natural resource: a framework linking water use to the area of protection natural resources, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 24(5), p. 960-974, doi:10.1007/s11367-018-1543-8

Olivier Jolliet, Assumpció Anton, Anne-Marie Boulay, Francesco Cherubini, Peter Fantke, Annie Levasseur, Thomas E. McKone, Ottar Michelsen, Llorenç Milà i Canals, Masaharu Motoshita, Stephan Pfister, Francesca Verones, Bruce Vigon, Rolf Frischknecht (2018) Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(11), p. 2189-2207, doi:10.1007/s11367-018-1443-y

Syeda Mariya Absar, Anne-Marie Boulay, Maria F. Campa, Benjamin L. Preston, Adam Taylor (2018) The tradeoff between water and carbon footprints of Barnett Shale gas, Journal of Cleaner Production 197, p. 47-56, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.140

Montserrat Nunez, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Shooka Karimpour, Anne-Marie Boulay, Michael J. Lathuilliere, Manuele Margni, Laura Scherer, Francesca Verones, Stephan Pfister (2018) A Multimedia Hydrological Fate Modeling Framework To Assess Water Consumption Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Science & Technology 52(8), p. 4658-4667, doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b05207

Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Michael Z. Hauschild, Anne-Marie Boulay, Peter Fantke, Alexis Laurent, Montserrat Núñez, Marisa Vieira (2018) Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment, p. 167-270, Cham: Springer International Publishing, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56475-3_10

Carla Caldeira, Paula Quinteiro, Erica Castanheira, Anne-Marie Boulay, Ana C. Dias, Luis Arroja, Fausto Freire (2018) Water footprint profile of crop-based vegetable oils and waste cooking oil: Comparing two water scarcity footprint methods, Journal of Cleaner Production 195, p. 1190-1202, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.221

Masaharu Motoshita, Yuya Ono, Stephan Pfister, Anne-Marie Boulay, Markus Berger, Keisuke Nansai, Kiyotaka Tahara, Norihiro Itsubo, Atsushi Inaba (2018) Consistent characterisation factors at midpoint and endpoint relevant to agricultural water scarcity arising from freshwater consumption, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(12), p. 2276-2287, doi:10.1007/s11367-014-0811-5

Anne-Marie Boulay, Jane Bare, Lorenzo Benini, Markus Berger, Michael J. Lathuillière, Alessandro Manzardo, Manuele Margni, Masaharu Motoshita, Montserrat Núñez, Amandine Valerie Pastor, Bradley Ridoutt, Taikan Oki, Sebastien Worbe, Stephan Pfister (2018) The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE), The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(2), p. 368-378, url, doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1333-8

Cécile Houssard, Anne-Marie Boulay, Dominique Maxime, Yves Pouliot, Manuele Margni (2018) Eco-efficiency for the manufacturers and for the society: what's the difference, LCA Food

Roland Clift, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Jonathan L. Chenoweth, Ian Christie, Julie Clavreul, Carina Mueller, Leo Posthuma, Anne-Marie Boulay, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Julia Chatterton, Fabrice DeClerck, Angela Druckman, Chris France, Antonio Franco, Dieter Gerten, Mark Goedkoop, Michael Z. Hauschild, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Thomas Koellner, Eric F. Lambin, Jacquetta Lee, Simon Mair, Stuart Marshall, Michael S. McLachlan, Llorenç Milà i Canals, Cynthia Mitchell, Edward Price, Johan Rockstrom, James Suckling, Richard Murphy (2017) The Challenges of Applying Planetary Boundaries as a Basis for Strategic Decision-Making in Companies with Global Supply Chains, Sustainability 9(2), doi:10.3390/su9020279

Stephan Pfister, Anne-Marie Boulay, Markus Berger, Michalis Hadjikakou, Masaharu Motoshita, Tim Hess, Brad Ridoutt, Jan Weinzettel, Laura Scherer, Petra Döll, Alessandro Manzardo, Montserrat Núñez, Francesca Verones, Sebastien Humbert, Kurt Buxmann, Kevin Harding, Lorenzo Benini, Taikan Oki, Matthias Finkbeiner, Andrew Henderson (2017) Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016) “A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA”, Ecological Indicators 72, p. 352-359, url, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.07.051

Anders Bjørn, Anne-Marie Boulay, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Julie Clavreul, Carina Mueller, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2017) Requirements for developing planetary boundaries-based impact categories and application to freshwater use, SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting

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