Description: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."Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Stud"ies is an extensive update and sequel to the 2006 title "Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment." 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.This book is a valuable resource for academics, businesses and policy makers who are active in contributing to more sustainable production and consumption.For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrsTopics covered include:- The growing role of renewables in our society- Sustainability in the design phase of products and processes- Principles of sustainability assessment- Land use analysis- Water use analysis- Material and energy flow analysis- Exergy and cumulative exergy analysis- Carbon and environmental footprint methods- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)- Case studies: renewable energy, bio-based chemicals and bio-based materials.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource). To get started finding Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource)
Description: 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."Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Stud"ies is an extensive update and sequel to the 2006 title "Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment." 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.This book is a valuable resource for academics, businesses and policy makers who are active in contributing to more sustainable production and consumption.For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrsTopics covered include:- The growing role of renewables in our society- Sustainability in the design phase of products and processes- Principles of sustainability assessment- Land use analysis- Water use analysis- Material and energy flow analysis- Exergy and cumulative exergy analysis- Carbon and environmental footprint methods- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)- Case studies: renewable energy, bio-based chemicals and bio-based materials.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource). To get started finding Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.