Sustainability Best Paper Awards for 2015

Sustainability is instituting annual awards to recognize the most outstanding papers in the areas of environmental, cultural, economic, technical and social sustainability of human beings published in Sustainability.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the first “Sustainability Best Paper Awards”. Nominations were selected by the Editor-in-Chief and several Editorial Board members of Sustainability from all papers published in 2011. Separate awards are given to articles and reviews, reflecting the differences in these two categories of contributions.

We are pleased to announce that the following five papers were chosen to receive “Sustainability Best Paper Awards” for 2015. I congratulate all of the authors and thank them for their significant and important contributions to the field of sustainability. I also thank the members of the Selection Committee for their efforts.

• Article Award

  • First Prize 
    David J. Murphy, Charles A.S. Hall, Michael Dale and Cutler Cleveland
    Order from Chaos: A Preliminary Protocol for Determining the EROI of Fuels
    Sustainability 2011, 3(10), 1888-1907; doi:10.3390/su3101888
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/10/1888
  • Second Prize 
    Anthony Halog and Yosef Manik
    Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
    Sustainability 2011, 3(2), 469-499; doi:10.3390/su3020469
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/2/469
  • Third Prize 
    Bertrand Hirel, Thierry Tétu, Peter J. Lea and Frédéric Dubois
    Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture
    Sustainability 2011, 3(1), 1452-1485; doi:10.3390/su3091452
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/9/1452

• Review Award

  • First Prize 
    Derek H. Lynch, Rod MacRae and Ralph C. Martin
    The Carbon and Global Warming Potential Impacts of Organic Farming: Does It Have a Significant Role in an Energy Constrained World?
    Sustainability 2011, 3(2), 322-362; doi:10.3390/su3020322
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/2/322
  • Second Prize 
    Yvan Dutil, Daniel Rousse and Guillermo Quesada
    Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target
    Sustainability 2011, 3(1), 443-464; doi:10.3390/su3020443
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/2/443

Award Selection Committee 

Editor-in-Chief 

Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada

E-Mail: [email protected]

Section Editor-in-Chief 

Prof. Dr. Helmut Haberl

Institute of Social Ecology, Alps Adria University, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, Vienna, Austria

E-Mail: [email protected]

Section Editor-in-Chief 

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Torretta

Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences, Insubria University, Via G.B. Vico 46, Varese I-21100, Italy

E-Mail: [email protected]

Section Editor-in-Chief 

Dr. Derek J. McPhee

Director of Chemistry, Amyris, Inc., 5885 Hollis St, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA

E-Mail: [email protected]