Natural Resource Use Efficiency in Technoeconomic Sustainability Analysis of Bio-Based Products
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: bio-based economy; bio-based products; bio-based product-related standardisation; biomass conversion processes; renewable energy on rural areas; socio-economic analysis in agriculture; agricultural experimentation (biometry)
Interests: technoeconomic assessment; environmental assessment; bioeconomy; circular economy; sustainability; biomass production; renewable energy; bio-based products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the Guest Editors of the Special Issue “Natural Resource Use Efficiency in Technoeconomic Sustainability Analysis of Bio-Based Products” in Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), we would like to invite you to contribute a research paper with the focus on the sustainability aspects of natural resource use efficiency in technoeconomic analysis of bio-based products. We hope you will find this topic of scientific interest. If you are interested in publishing the results of your research in this Special Issue, you are welcome to send a tentative title and abstract to check their suitability. We are convinced that your contribution will be highly appreciated by our readers.
“Bio-based products’ origin is in biological resources.” Their manufacturing involves the use of raw materials, air, water, energy, and land. All resources are extracted from the environment as renewable and non-renewable biotic and abiotic ones. Natural resources are not only production factors, but they also serve as natural habitats of biodiversity, emission sinks, waste dump, and other environmental services. There is a reason that natural resources should be exploited in a sustainable way by numerous activities, including efficient processing of primary and secondary biomass resources, minimizing waste generation, circulation of the biological nutrients in ecosystems, and consequent recovery of ecosystem services.
A sustainable natural resource use in bio-based production requires consideration on technical performance, economic feasibility, environmental and social consequences at the early stage of product design and process performance alternatives. Resource-addressed life-cycle technoeconomic sustainability assessment (TESA) of bio-based products takes into account the three main areas of production associated with sustainability of raw materials, conversion, and end-of-life routes. It means that commonly applied technoeconomic analysis (TEA) should be consolidated with environmental analysis by the commonly accepted life-cycle analysis (LCA) and a relatively novel approach to assess the economic dimension through the life-cycle costing (LCC) and social dimension by social LCA (S-LCA).
This Special Issue will focus on the sustainable use of natural resources in technoeconomic analysis of bio-based products in aspects such as:
- Resource-related bio-based product design;
- Resource use efficiency versus ecosystem services;
- Technical solutions for saving resource use in manufacturing of bio-based products;
- End of life routes to increase recovery of materials and energy;
- Indicators of natural resource use efficiency and saving along the entire value chain;
- A model approach for integration of assessment techniques for technoeconomic, environmental, economic, and social analyses.
Prof. Dr. Janusz Gołaszewski
Dr. Ewelina Olba-Zięty
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural resources
- bio-based products
- resource efficiency
- technoeconomic sustainability assessment
- sustainability
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