Renewables-Based Technology

Contributors.
Foreword.
Series Preface.
Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
Part I: Renewables as a Resource and SustainabilityPerformance Indicators.
1 The Contribution of Renewables to Society(Göran Berndes).
2 The Potential of Renewables as a Feedstock for Chemistryand Energy (Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark, Martin K. Patel,André P. C. Faaij and Monique M. Hoogwijk).
3 Sustainability Performance Indicators (AlexeiLapkin).
Part II: Relevant Assessment Tools.
4 Life Cycle Inventory Analysis Applied to RenewableResources (Niels Jungbluth and Rolf Frischknecht).
5 Net Energy Balancing and Fuel-Cycle Analysis (HoseinShapouri, Michael Wang and James A. Duffield).
6 Life Cycle Assessment as an Environmental SustainabilityTool (Adisa Azapagic).
7 Exergy (Jo Dewulf and Herman VanLangenhove).
8 Material Flow Analysis and the Use of Renewables from aSystems Perspective (Stefan Bringezu).
9 Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity: Essential Elementsin Sustainability Assessment (William E. Rees).
10 The Sustainable Process Index (SPI) (MichaelNarodoslawsky and Anneliese Niederl).
Part III:Case Studies.
11 Assessment of Sustainable Land Use in ProducingBiomass (Helmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz Erb).
12 Assessment of the Forest Products Industries (KlausRichter, Frank Werner and Hans-Jörg Althaus).
13 Assessment of the Energy Production Industry: ModernOptions for Producing Secondary Energy Carriers from Biomass(André Faaij).
14 Assessment of Biofuels (James A. Duffield, HoseinShapouri and Michael Wang).
15 Assessment of Organic Waste Treatment (Jan-OlovSundqvist).
16 Oleochemical and Petrochemical Surfactants: An OverallAssessment (Erwan Saouter, Gert Van Hoof, Mark Stalmans andAlan Brunskill).
17 Assessment of Bio-Based Packaging Materials(Andreas Detzel, Martina Krüger and AxelOstermayer).
18 Assessment of Biotechnology-Based Chemicals (PeterSaling and Andreas Kicherer).
19 Assessment of Bio-Based Pharmaceuticals: The CephalexinCase (Alle Bruggink and Peter Nossin).
Part IV:Conclusions.
20 Conclusions (Jo Dewulf and Herman VanLangenhove).
Index.