scholarly journals Triple bottom line and life-cycle cost assessments of sustainable resource management in Boston, MA

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Farah
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Sustainable Resource Management

Focussed Areas in the Extant Literature of Green HRM

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Ella Mittal ◽  
Parvinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Green Human Resource Management

Sustainability is the important issue for most of the organisation for reaping the benefit of triple bottom line and competitive advantage. Green human resource management is one of the ways to attain the sustainability which also helps in attracting and retaining the young talent towards the organisation. The purpose of the present research is to study the concept of Green HRM with various dimensions and to investigate the mostly researched domain related to Green HRM. The study discussed the key and major focus areas in the literature in the context of GHRM as per the author's view to accomplish the stated objectives. The results of the study showed the manufacturing domain has been focused by most of the studies due to the direct consumption of natural resources more in this sector. Further, originality or practicality of the research lies as this research would be helpful to the HR practitioners to focus only on key areas to implement the concept of GHRM well in their respective organizations to formulate the competitive strategy to add value to their respective organizations.

scholarly journals A Critical Review on Advancement and Challenges of Biochar Application in Paddy Fields: Environmental and Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Benyamin Khoshnevisan ◽  
G. Venkatesh ◽  
Samieh Eskandari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Paddy Fields ◽  
Rice Grain ◽  
Bottom Line

Paddy fields emit considerable amounts of methane (CH4), which is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) and, thereby, causes significant environmental impacts, even as they generate wealth and jobs directly in the agricultural sector, and indirectly in the food-processing sector. Application of biochar in rice production systems will not just help to truncate their carbon footprints, but also add to the bottom-line. In this work, the authors have reviewed the literature on climate change, human health, and economic impacts of using organic residues to make biochar for the addition to croplands especially to rice paddy fields. Biochar-bioenergy systems range in scale from small household cook-stoves to large industrial pyrolysis plants. Biochar can be purveyed in different forms—raw, mineral-enriched, or blended with compost. The review of published environmental life cycle assessment (E-LCA) studies showed biochar has the potential to mitigate the carbon footprint of farming systems through a range of mechanisms. The most important factors are the stabilization of the carbon in the biochar and the generation of recoverable energy from pyrolysis gases produced as co-products with biochar as well as decreased fertiliser requirement and enhanced crop productivity. The quantitative review of E-LCA studies concluded that the carbon footprint of rice produced in biochar-treated soil was estimated to range from −1.43 to 2.79 kg CO2-eq per kg rice grain, implying a significant reduction relative to rice produced without a biochar soil amendment. The suppression of soil-methane emission due to the biochar addition is the dominant process with a negative contribution of 40–70% in the climate change mitigation of rice production. The review of the life cycle cost studies on biochar use as an additive in farmlands demonstrated that biochar application can be an economically-feasible approach in some conditions. Strategies like the subsidization of the initial biochar capital cost and assignment of a non-trivial price for carbon abatement in future pricing mechanisms will enhance the economic benefits for the rice farmers.

Measuring the Sustainable Return on Investment (SROI) of Waste-to-Energy

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Williams ◽  
John C. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Return On Investment ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Social Environmental

Waste to Energy facilities serve their communities in a number of important ways. Our industry does a terrific job reducing volumes that would have otherwise been destined for landfills. Energy recovery is an important and positive byproduct of that process but not the only one. Beyond these two obvious attributes you seldom hear of anything else. This is unfortunate because there are significant social, environmental, and economic benefits associated with the technology. Industry “silence” can be attributed to an inability to describe those benefits in ways people understand or see a dollar value in. In other words, we have a tough time measuring the value of “Green.” This paper describes a framework through which we can make the case for sustainable benefits associated with Waste to Energy. It begins with discussion of why it is important to seek a connection with the “triple bottom line” including the social, environmental, and economic attributes of a given program/project/facility. It sheds light on the need to think beyond traditional life cycle cost analysis techniques that focus on direct cash benefits. It describes a process through which noncash and external costs and benefits can be calculated and presented in monetary terms, referred to as the Sustainable Return on Investment or SROI (direct cash + noncash + external costs and benefits = SROI). This paper should help readers make an aggressive case to reveal the FULL VALUE of Waste to Energy across the sustainability triple bottom line.

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