Chapter 4. Techno-economic Sustainability Assessment: Methodological Approaches for Biobased Products

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-132
Author(s):  
D. Briassoulis ◽  
A. Koutinas ◽  
J. Golaszewski ◽  
A. Pikasi ◽  
D. Ladakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Biobased Products ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Methodological Approaches

scholarly journals Bio-Based Products

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Simone Wurster ◽  
Luana Ladu ◽  
Dhandy Arisaktiwardhana
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Biobased Products ◽  
Type I ◽  
Insulation Material ◽  
Expert Consultation ◽  
Automotive Components ◽  
Mulch Film

Communicating the related environmental benefits of bio-based products to consumers represents a key component of their market uptake. In this regard, the use of ecolabels ISO 14024 Type I play a crucial role. This article identifies and analyzes different criteria proposed by ecolabels for conducting a sustainability assessment of bio-based products considering its entire lifecycle. A comparison of the selected criteria with existing indicators ruled out by the SDGs is proposed. Through expert consultation, the suitability of existing ecolabel criteria for bio-based products has been tested for four applications of biobased products: food packaging from PLA; biobased automotive components; bio-based mulch film; and bio-based insulation material.

scholarly journals Financial Ratios as Indicators of Economic Sustainability: A Quantitative Analysis for Swiss Dairy Farms

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Zorn ◽  
Michele Esteves ◽  
Ivo Baur ◽  
Markus Lips
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
North American ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Dairy Farms ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Farm Accountancy Data Network ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the differences between European and North American practices and considering prevalent sustainability assessment approaches, we identified frequently used financial ratios. Five ratios relate to the indicator profitability and four to the indicator liquidity. Another eight financial indicators refer to the indicators financial efficiency, stability, solvency and repayment capacity. Based on more than 14,000 accountancies of dairy farms from the Swiss Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), we carried out a Spearman correlation analysis for normalised and harmonised financial ratios. The correlation analysis revealed mostly positive correlations. To assess the implementation of a quantitative economic sustainability assessment we compare an aggregated indicator compound of all 17 ratios with two selections of financial ratios–first, a compound European and, second, a compound North American economic sustainability indicator. The correlation between the complete and the reduced sets of indicators suggest that both aggregate economic indicators can be reasonably applied to estimate the economic sustainability for Swiss dairy farms.

Bio-Based Products

2022 ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
Simone Wurster ◽  
Luana Ladu ◽  
Dhandy Arisaktiwardhana
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Biobased Products ◽  
Type I ◽  
Insulation Material ◽  
Expert Consultation ◽  
Automotive Components ◽  
Mulch Film

Communicating the related environmental benefits of bio-based products to consumers represents a key component of their market uptake. In this regard, the use of ecolabels ISO 14024 Type I play a crucial role. This article identifies and analyzes different criteria proposed by ecolabels for conducting a sustainability assessment of bio-based products considering its entire lifecycle. A comparison of the selected criteria with existing indicators ruled out by the SDGs is proposed. Through expert consultation, the suitability of existing ecolabel criteria for bio-based products has been tested for four applications of biobased products: food packaging from PLA; biobased automotive components; bio-based mulch film; and bio-based insulation material.

scholarly journals Economic sustainability assessment in semi-steppe rangelands

2018 ◽  
Vol 637-638 ◽  
pp. 112-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Mofidi Chelan ◽  
Ahmad Alijanpour ◽  
Hossein Barani ◽  
Javad Motamedi ◽  
Hossein Azadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Economic Sustainability

scholarly journals Modeling Regulation of Economic Sustainability in Energy Systems with Diversified Resources

Sci ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Anatoly Alabugin ◽  
Sergei Aliukov
Keyword(s):  
Jump Process ◽  
Generalized Functions ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Regulatory Models

The imperfection of theoretical and methodological approaches to regulate the jump process transition when combining differentiated energy resources is a pressing issue. The goal of this paper is to develop a theory and a method to regulate the integration-balancing processes of combining diversified resources. The concept of combining integration and balancing models has been substantiated by methods of transforming multidimensional space and approximating generalized functions that represent jump-like processes. Theoretical and operational-regulatory models of economic sustainability have been developed, substantiating new concepts, patterns, properties, dependencies and indicators of the dynamics of the processes of combination; the optimality conditions for the number of approximations of generalized functions, interpreting the effects of control functions of combining resources, are determined. New methods for solving problems have been developed: the organization of the energy technology complex of facilities for enhanced resource diversification and the Center for Sustainability, improving the quality of managing dynamic processes in terms of combining and diversifying resources.

An economic sustainability assessment of “Fichi di Cosenza” PDO production compared with other profitable permanent crops

2017 ◽  
pp. 395-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Stillitano ◽  
G. Falcone ◽  
E. Spada ◽  
A.I. De Luca ◽  
N. Grillone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Economic Sustainability
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