Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6828946 |
| Title (Primary) | Establishing a robust sustainability index for the assessment of bioeconomy regions |
| Title (Secondary) | 2014 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy for Sustainable Development (ICUE), Pattaya, Thailand, 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 2014 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy for Sustainable Development (ICUE), Pattaya, Thailand, 19-21 March 2014 p. 1 - 4 |
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