Polymer Sustainability Metrics Compared

2010 ◽  
pp. 10093010164846
Author(s):  
Steve Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Metrics

scholarly journals Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110249
Author(s):  
Siddharth Sareen
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Solar Irradiation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Energy Transitions

Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy sources competitive and fossil fuel actors are leveraging their incumbent privilege and political reach to modulate energy transitions. As techno-economic competitiveness is rapidly reconfigured in favour of sources such as solar energy, governance puzzles dominate the research frontier. Who makes key decisions about decarbonisation based on what metrics, and how are consequent benefits and burdens allocated? This article takes its point of departure in ambitious sustainability metrics for solar rollout that Portugal embraced in the late 2010s. This southwestern European country leads on hydro and wind power, and recently emerged from austerity politics after the 2008–2015 recession. Despite Europe’s best solar irradiation, its big solar push only kicked off in late 2018. In explaining how this arose and unfolded until mid-2020 and why, the article investigates what key issues ambitious rapid decarbonisation plans must address to enhance social equity. It combines attention to accountability and legitimacy to offer an analytical framework geared at generating actionable knowledge to advance an accountable energy transition. Drawing on empirical study of the contingencies that determine the implementation of sustainability metrics, the article traces how discrete acts legitimate specific trajectories of territorialisation by solar photovoltaics through discursive, bureaucratic, technocratic and financial practices. Combining empirics and perspectives from political ecology and energy geographies, it probes the politics of just energy transitions to more low-carbon and equitable societal futures.

Biodiversity Improves Life Cycle Sustainability Metrics in Algal Biofuel Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (15) ◽  
pp. 9279-9288 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Carruthers ◽  
Casey M. Godwin ◽  
David C. Hietala ◽  
Bradley J. Cardinale ◽  
Xiaoxia Nina Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Biofuel Production ◽  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Algal Biofuel

Sustainability metrics for succinic acid production: A comparison between biomass-based and petrochemical routes

2015 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Pinazo ◽  
Marcelo E. Domine ◽  
Vasile Parvulescu ◽  
Filip Petru
Keyword(s):  
Succinic Acid ◽  
Acid Production ◽  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Succinic Acid Production

scholarly journals Food System Sustainability Metrics: Policies, Quantification, and the Role of Complexity Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12408
Author(s):  
José V. Matos ◽  
Rui J. Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Complexity Sciences ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
System Sustainability ◽  
And Control

The rise of global attention toward sustainability and sustainable development (SD) has provided increased incentives for research development and investment in these areas. Food systems are at the center of human needs and global population growth sustainability concerns. These drives and the need to provide quantified support for related investment projects led to the proliferation of sustainability metrics and frameworks. While questions about sustainability definition and measurement still abound, SD policy design and control increasingly need adequate quantified support instruments. This paper aims to address this need, contributing to a more consistent and integrated application of food system sustainability metrics and quantified management of the implemented solutions. After presenting the relationships between sustainability, resilience, and robustness and summarizing food system sustainability quantification developments so far, we expose complexity sciences’ potential contributions toward SD quantified evaluation, addressing prediction, intangibles, and uncertainty issues. Finding a paramount need to make sense and bring existing sustainability metrics in context for operational use, we conclude that the articulated application of multiple and independent modeling approaches at the micro, meso, and macro levels can better help the development of food SD policies and implemented solution quantified management, with due regard to confidence levels of the results obtained.

Sustainability metrics of pretreatment processes in a waste derived lignocellulosic biomass biorefinery

2020 ◽  
Vol 298 ◽  
pp. 122558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Khairul Islam ◽  
Huaimin Wang ◽  
Shazia Rehman ◽  
Chengyu Dong ◽  
Hsien-Yi Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lignocellulosic Biomass ◽  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Pretreatment Processes

Sustainability metrics of chemicals from renewable biomass

2015 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Sheldon ◽  
Johan P.M. Sanders ◽  
Alberto Marinas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Metrics ◽  
Renewable Biomass
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