Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products

<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>