Marguerite Renouf is a Senior Scientist with Life Cycle Strategies and an Adjunct Lecturer with UQ’s School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management. Marguerite originally trained and worked as an industrial chemist, in mineral processing in Australia and overseas. However has since spent most of her career working in the field of industrial environmental management, specialising in the assessment of sustainable production systems using life cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-efficiency. In recent years her work has focused on agricultural and bio-production systems, by using LCA to test the environmental benefits of producing energy, fuels and products from agricultural crops in a resource constrained world.