Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Conference papers |
| URL | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6820090 |
| Title (Primary) | Establishing a robust sustainability index for the assessment of bioeconomy regions |
| Title (Secondary) | Conference Proceedings of the International Conference and Utility Exhibition 2014 (ICUE 2014) on Green Energy for Sustainable Development of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Bangkok, 19-21 March 2014 |
| Author | Hildebrandt, J.; Bezama, A.; Thrän, D. |
| Year | 2014 |
| Department | BIOENERGIE |
| Page From | 1 |
| Page To | 4 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | Bioenergy; Cascade use systems; LCF biorefineries; Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment; Multi Criteria Analysis; stakeholder value; Resource competition; Sustainability Index; Wood-based bioeconomy |
| Abstract | The Bioeconomy strategy fosters the integration of the agricultural, chemical, pulp and paper industries and the energy sector for obtaining sustainable bio-based materials and bioenergy. Basically all industrial sectors relying on biomass are facing economic burdens by resource competition. The cascade and coupled use stand as potential solutions for cross-sectoral cooperations to mutually enhance economic competitiveness. However the monitoring of trade-offs between sustainability goals of individual industries and the overall system demands extensive knowledge-based elicitations. The challenge of establishing a sustainability index arising from stakeholder's subjective perceptions of multidimensional issues requires to develop an integrated methodology out of nowadays most accepted and reliable assessment tools. This paper positions a sustainability index tool by reexamining the methodologies with regard to their appropriateness and generic strengths and weaknesses. The proposed combination of reference point approaches with preference-based elicitations is claimed as appropriate for establishing specific utility functions of sub-goals for bioeconomy. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=15493 |
| Hildebrandt, J., Bezama, A., Thrän, D. (2014): Establishing a robust sustainability index for the assessment of bioeconomy regions Conference Proceedings of the International Conference and Utility Exhibition 2014 (ICUE 2014) on Green Energy for Sustainable Development of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Bangkok, 19-21 March 2014 p. 1 - 4 |
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