The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0

This dataset includes the AWARE2.0 characterization factors as documented in the article "The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0" (DOI: 10.1111/jiec.70023). When using the dataset in your own work, please cite the article and provide reference to this zenodo repository. For importing the country-level characterization factors into LCA software, please see the AWARE2.0 implementations (openLCA, SimaPro, brightway2) in IMPACT World+, version 2.1: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14041258 Content: AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.gpkg: Geospatial file containing the AWARE2.0 basins as polygons with associated monthly and annual CFs AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.kmz: Version of AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.gpkg for GoogleEarth AWARE20_Native_CFs.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs on basin level (monthly and annual) and associated water consumption used for weighting AWARE20_Intermediate_Variables.xlsx: Intermediate Variables from the calculation of the AWARE2.0 CFs, such as the longterm average natural and actual water availability, the AMDs, the EFRs, etc. AWARE20_Countries_and_Regions.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs aggregated according to geography definitions of GLAM and ecoinvent (version 2.5, applicable to ecoinvent 3.10) AWARE20_Subnational_Resolution.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs aggregated to subnational resolution, using the GADM dataset version 4.1 (https://gadm.org/old_versions.html) figures_AWARE_AWARE20_comparison_all_basins.zip: Figures comparing CFs, AMDs, Natural and Actual Availability, EWRs, and EFR coefficients between AWARE and AWARE2.0, for each of the 8149 basins individually. Consult these figures for a visual impression of how and why CFs might have changed between AWARE and AWARE2.0. Changes: v1.0.0 (corresponding to published article): update of readme sheets with appropriate references to corresponding article update of reference "Müller Schmied et al. (2024)" added file: AWARE20_Subnational_Resolution.xlsx v0.0.3: use bug-fixed WaterGAP2.2e data from Sept 2023 added country and subnational aggregations changed "NoData" to "NotDefined" in the tables added gridcell pHWC to intermediate variables corrected table of water consumption data without post-processing in "Intermediate_Variables" Caveats: Spatial CF aggregations for treaties: Due to the creation date of the data set, the BRICS aggregations do not include the states that joined after 2023.