Sustainability Assessment of Energy System
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 361
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global climate emergency is threatening several aspects like health, economic prospects, and basic food, land, and water resources for humanity. To realize a sustainable energy transition, a wide range of changes in global energy behavior is needed. Currently, the sustainability concept is being incorporated in all aspects of general life, and energy systems are not an exception due to effects on the environment due to emissions, waste, and wastewater effluents. The socioeconomics aspects of energy systems are being highlighted when new and novelty systems are designed and proposed.
In this sense, some aspects have to be addressed to form a strong strategy to realize sustainable energy systems:
- The economic valuation of the environmental costs and benefits associated with the production and consumption of energies derived from different cycles of fuel and transportation.
- Studies of strategies and identification of non-technical barriers to achieving a larger share of clean energies in the market.
- Economic analysis of emerging energy technologies, energy modelling, incorporating externalities and life cycle analysis, as well as the construction of future energy scenarios.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to attract researchers and practitioners of sustainability analysis of energy systems. This Special Issue will accept original and review articles that address the following topics:
- Analysis of the environmental consequences of energy technologies using life cycle assessment
- Analysis of the indirect land-use change (iLUC) effects of first-generation biofuels
- Quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of renewable and non-renewable energy and fuels
- Analysis of the social consequences of energy technologies using social life cycle assessment
- Life cycle sustainability assessment applied to energy technologies
- Assessment of the externalities of energy technologies using the ExternE methodology
- Using of input–output/life cycle assessment tool (IO-LCA hybrid) and its application to energy technologies
- Applying environmentally extended multi-regional input-output models (E-MRIO) to assess the effects of energy projects on the environment at the national and international levels
- Bioenergy or biofuel GHG emissions calculation tools
- Externalities assessment of energy systems
Dr. Israel Herrera-Orozco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability
- renewable energy
- life cycle assessment
- socioeconomic analysis
- bioeconomy
- circular economy
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