Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products

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<p>Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously. Renewable energy and products have a significant role in the market today, and the same time sustainability assessment methods have advanced, with a growing standardization of environmental sustainability metrics and consideration of social issues as part of the assessment.</p><p><i>Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies</i> is an extensive update and sequel to the 2006 title<i>Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment</i>. It discusses the impressive evolution and role renewables have taken in our modern society, highlighting the importance of sustainability principles in the design phase of renewable-based technologies, and presenting a wide range of sustainability assessment methods suitable for renewables-based technologies, together with case studies to demonstrate their applications.</p><p>This book is a valuable resource for academics, businesses and policy makers who are active in contributing to more sustainable production and consumption.</p><p>For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrs</p><p>Topics covered include:</p><ul><li>The growing role of renewables in our society</li><li>Sustainability in the design phase of products and processes</li><li>Principles of sustainability assessment</li><li>Land use analysis</li><li>Water use analysis</li><li>Material and energy flow analysis</li><li>Exergy and cumulative exergy analysisCarbon and environmental footprint methods</li><li>Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)</li><li>Case studies: renewable energy, bio-based chemicals and bio-based materials.</li></ul>

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<p><b>Prof. Dr. Jo Dewulf,</b> Institute for Environment and Sustainability, JRC, European Commision, Italy and Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium<br /> Professor Dewulf performs research in the areas of environmental chemistry, environmental technology and clean technology at Ghent University. Since December  2013, he has been working as a senior researcher in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the Joint Research Institute of the European Commission. Key in his work is managing natural resources in a technically efficient way, performing thermodynamics based sustainability analysis at process, plant and cradle-to-gate level to support the development and assessment of new technologies.</p><p>Supported by:</p><p><b>Dr Steven De Meester,</b> Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium<br /> Dr De Meester works on the development of sustainability assessment methodologies for new technologies and applications of Life Cycle Assessment in industry.</p><p><b>Dr Rodrigo Alvarenga,</b>Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil</p>

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