Cécile Bulle

Cécile Bulle is a professor of sustainable development strategy in the social and environmental responsibility department of the school of management sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (ESG-UQÀM). She obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Polytechnique Montréal in 2007. She is co-holder of the International Chair on Life Cycle, the main research unit of CIRAIG, the International Reference Center on Life Cycle of products, processes and services, which is one of the most recognized research centers in the world in life cycle analysis.

Her research interests are sustainable real estate, modeling the impact of the life cycle, in particular the toxic impacts of metals, the depletion of resources and the use of water and the operationalization of the Cycle Analysis. community life (sustainable neighborhoods, etc.) and individuals. She teaches life cycle analysis, sustainable building management, sustainable real estate and corporate social responsibility. She is currently leading the IMPACT World + project, a major project involving several research teams around the world to develop the very first method for assessing the impacts of the regionalized life cycle.

She is the author of forty-seven scientific articles published in international journals and more than one hundred and fifty communications in international symposia. She has also participated in several life cycle working groups, notably under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), acts as reviewer for ten scientific journals and has participated in supervision of around forty master’s and doctoral students.

Cécile Bulle's Publications


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Titouan Greffe, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2023) An instrumental value-based framework for assessing the damages of abiotic resources use in life cycle assessment, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 28(1), p. 53-69, doi:10.1007/s11367-022-02107-z

Gabrielle Trottier, Katrine Turgeon, Daniel Boisclair, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2022) The impacts of hydropower on freshwater macroinvertebrate richness: A global meta-analysis, PLOS ONE 17(8), p. e0273089, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273089

Titouan Greffe, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2022) A framework for assessing the damages of resource services loss in life cycle assessment, SETAC Copenhagen

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

Elena Corella-Puertas, Pauline Guieu, Alessio Aufoujal, Cécile Bulle (2022) Impact assessment of microplastic emissions in LCA : Preliminary characterization factors for expanded polystyrene and tire and road wear particles, SETAC Europe 32nd annual meeting

Wafaa Baabou, Anders Bjørn, Cécile Bulle (2022) Absolute Environmental Sustainability of Materials Dissipation: Application for Construction Sector, Resources 11(8), p. 76, doi:10.3390/resources11080076

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

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

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

Katrine Turgeon, Gabrielle Trottier, Christian Turpin, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2021) Empirical characterization factors to be used in LCA and assessing the effects of hydropower on fish richness, ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 121, RADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107047

Gabrielle Trottier, Katrine Turgeon, Francesca Verones, Daniel Boisclair, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2021) Empirical Characterization Factors for Life Cycle Assessment of the Impacts of Reservoir Occupation on Macroinvertebrate Richness across the United States, SUSTAINABILITY 13(5), ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND: MDPI, doi:10.3390/su13052701

Titouan Greffe, Manuele Margni, Masaharu Motoshita, Cécile Bulle () A framework for consistently assessing natural resources services loss in life cycle assessment (submitted)

Wafaa Baabou, Anders Bjørn, Cécile Bulle (2021) Abolute sustainability for the life cycle impact assessment of mineral and metallic ressources deplation, IcRS

Maryam Jahanbani, Ivan Viveros Santos, ‪Frédéric-Georges Fontaine, Cécile Bulle () Creating CO2 capture, recovery and valorization processes while avoiding environmental burden shifting (submitted), Journal of CO2 Utilization

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

Ivan Viveros Santos, Philippe Roux, Cécile Bulle, Annie Levasseur, Louise Deschênes (2020) AGEC-LCI: an open access tool for calculating emissions from fertilizers and metal-based fungicides applications., SETAC SciCon

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

Wafaa Baabou, Anders Bjørn, Cécile Bulle (2020) Absolute sustainability for the life cycle impact assessment of mineral and metallic resources depletion, LCIC

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

Camille Chabas, Cécile Bulle (2020) Developping a Life Cycle Impact Assessment Model Based on Functionality to Assess Competition Between Users, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology

Anders Bjørn, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Manuele Margni, Andrew D Henderson, Sandra Payen, Cécile Bulle (2020) A comprehensive planetary boundary-based method for the nitrogen cycle in life cycle assessment: Development and application to a tomato production case study, SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 715, RADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136813

Laure Patouillard, Daphne Lorne, Pierre Collet, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2020) Prioritizing regionalization to enhance interpretation in consequential life cycle assessment: application to alternative transportation scenarios using partial equilibrium economic modeling, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT 25(12), p. 2325-2341, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, doi:10.1007/s11367-020-01785-x

Camille Chabas, Cécile Bulle (2020) Developping a Life Cycle Impact Assessment Model Based on Functionality to Assess Competition Between Users, ACLCA

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

Camille Chabas, Cécile Bulle (2020) Developping a Life Cycle Impact Assessment Model Based on Functionality to Assess Competition Between Users, SETAC SciCon

Pierre-Olivier Roy, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes (2019) Global-scale atmospheric modeling of aerosols to assess metal source-receptor relationships for life cycle assessment, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 24(1), p. 93-103, url, doi:10.1007/s11367-018-1508-y

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

Anders Bjørn, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Patrick Keys, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Sarah E. Cornell, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2019) Challenges and opportunities towards improved application of the planetary boundary for land-system change in life cycle assessment of products, Science of The Total Environment 696, p. 133964, url, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133964

Laure Patouillard, Pierre Collet, Pascal Lesage, Pablo Tirado Seco, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2019) Prioritizing regionalization efforts in life cycle assessment through global sensitivity analysis: a sector meta-analysis based on ecoinvent v3, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, p. 1-17, doi:10.1007/s11367-019-01635-5

You Zhang, Zengwei Yuan, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle, Hui Hua, Songyan Jiang, Xuewei Liu (2019) Intensive carbon dioxide emission of coal chemical industry in China, Applied Energy 236, p. 540-550, url, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.12.022

Laure Patouillard, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2019) Continental version of IMPACT World+: A regionalized life cyle impact assessment method for Latin America, CILCA 2019

Farzaneh Rezaei, Pascale Lesage, Cécile Bulle (2019) Integration of the building information modeling and the life cycle assessment at the early and detailed building design stages, Building and Environment 153, p. 158-167, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.01.034

Ivan Viveros Santos, Cécile Bulle, Annie Levasseur, Louise Deschênes (2019) Regionalized Terrestrial Ecotoxicity Assessment of Copper-Based Fungicides Applied in Viticulture, SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting

Michael J. Lathuillière, Cécile Bulle, Mark S. Johnson (2019) Complementarity in mid-point impacts for water use in life cycle assessment applied to cropland and cattle production in Southern Amazonia, Journal of Cleaner Production 219, p. 497-507, url, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.021

Anders Bjørn, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Patrick Keys, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Sarah E. Cornell, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2019) Using life cycle assessment to link production and consumption activities to biogeophysical effects of land use, Open Science Meeting 2019 | Global Land Programme

Rifat-Ara Karim, Louise Deschênes, Cécile Bulle (2019) Regionalized aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factor for zinc emitted to soil accounting for speciation and the transfer through groundwater, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 24(11), p. 2008-2022, url, doi:10.1007/s11367-019-01633-7

Gabrielle Trottier, Katrine Turgeon, Verones. Francesca, Daniel Boisclair, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2019) Regionalized evaluation of change in aquatic insect species richness due to river impoundment., American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA)

Ivan Viveros Santos, Cécile Bulle, Annie Levasseur, Louise Deschênes (2018) Regionalized Terrestrial Ecotoxicity Assessment of Copper-Based Fungicides Applied in Viticulture, Sustainability 10(7), p. 2522, url, doi:10.3390/su10072522

Laure Patouillard, Cécile Bulle, Cécile Querleu, Dominique Maxime, Philippe Osset, Manuele Margni (2018) Critical review and practical recommendations to integrate the spatial dimension in Life Cycle Assessment, Journal of Cleaner Production. 177, p. 398-412

Michael Lathuillière, Cécile Bulle, Mark Johnson (2018) A contribution to harmonize water footprint assessments, Global Environmental Change 53, p. 252-264, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.10.004

Elaine Garcia de Lima, Cécile Bulle, Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya (2018) A Functionality Based Wood Substitutability Index, Sustainability 10(6), p. 1750

Laure Patouillard, Pierre Collet, Pascal Lesage, Pablo Tirado-Seco, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2018) Reduce the uncertainty of LCA results by prioritizing the regionalization effort: a sectorial meta-analysis, SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting

Peter Fantke, Nicoló Aurisano, Jane Bare, Thomas Backhaus, Cécile Bulle, Peter M. Chapman, Dick De Zwart, Robert Dwyer, Alexi Ernstoff, Laura Golsteijn, Hanna Holmquist, Olivier Jolliet, Thomas E. McKone, Mikołaj Owsianiak, Willie Peijnenburg, Leo Posthuma, Sandra Roos, Erwan Saouter, Diederik Schowanek, Nico M. van Straalen, Martina G Vijver, Michael Hauschild (2018) Toward harmonizing ecotoxicity characterization in life cycle impact assessment, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 37(12), p. 2955-2971, url, doi:10.1002/etc.4261

François Saunier, Sylvie Fradette, Ferrere Clerveaux, Sylvain Lefebvre, Eric Madore, Gabriel Veilleux, Cécile Bulle, Richard Surprenant (2018) Comparison of Life-cycle Assessment between Bio-catalyzed Potassium Carbonate System, Amine-Based Capture and UNO MK3 Technology, CCUS Conference

Francesca Verones, Jane Bare, Cécile Bulle, Rolf Frischknecht, Michael Hauschild, Stefanie Hellweg, Andrew Henderson, Olivier Jolliet, Alexis Laurent, Xun Liao, Jan Paul Lindner, Danielle Maya de Souza, Ottar Michelsen, Laure Patouillard, Stephan Pfister, Léo Posthuma, Valentina Prado, Brad Ridoutt, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Serenella Sala, Cassia Ugaya, Marisa Vieira, Peter Fantke (2017) LCIA framework and crosscutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, Journal of Cleaner Production 161, p. 957-967

Katrine Turgeon, Gabrielle Trottier, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Daniel Boisclair, Christian Turpin, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni (2017) Assessing the impacts of hydroelectricity production on aquatic ecosystems in LCA: A multi-scale approach, SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting

Michael Lathuillière, Eduardo J. Miranda, Cécile Bulle, Eduardo G. Couto, Mark S. Johnson (2017) Land occupation and transformation impact of soybean production in southern Amazonia, Brazil, Journal of Cleaner Production 149, p. 680-689, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.120

Flor Hernández-Padilla, Manuele Margni, Adalberto Noyola, Leonor Guereca-Hernandez, Cécile Bulle (2017) Assessing wastewater treatment in Latin America and the Caribbean: enhancing Life cycle assessment interpretation by regionalization and impact assessment sensibility, Journal of Cleaner Production. 142, p. 2140-2153

Anders Bjørn, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez, Richard Wood, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2017) Absolute sustainability assessment of product life cycles through downscaling of planetary boundary to industry level, ISIE/ISSST 2017 Joint Conference

Clara Tromson, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes (2017) Including the spatial variability of metal speciation in the effect factor in life cycle impact assessment: Limits of the equilibrium partitioning method, Science of the Total Environment 581, p. 117-125

Geneviève Plouffe, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes (2017) Accounting for metal speciation in terrestrial ecotoxicity: a compromise between coherence across metals and validation data availability, SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting

Gabrielle Trottier, Katrine Turgeon, Francesca Verones, Daniel Boisclair, Cécile Bulle, Manuele Margni () Changes in freshwater macroinvertebrate richness due to river impoundment in the United States (submitted), Sustainability

Ivan Viveros Santos, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes (2017) Profil environnemental d’une bouteille de vin consommé au Québec, Congrès Cidres et Alcools d’ici.

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

Guillaume Majeau-Bettez, Anders Bjørn, Richard Wood, Manuele Margni, Cécile Bulle (2017) Absolute sustainability assessment of product life cycles through calculation of carrying capacity entitlement at industry level, SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting, url

Ivan Viveros Santos, Cécile Bulle, Louise Deschênes (2016) Accounting for spatial variability and speciation in copper terrestrial ecotoxicity: Case study of wine consumption in Quebec, 22nd LCA Case Study Symposium

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