Uncertainty in Prospective Sustainability Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 7729
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Industrial Ecology and Sustainability Science; Decision support tools for quantitative sustainability assessment: Life Cycle assessment (LCA), Network Analysis, Valuation of externalities, Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Analysis; Quantitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods and interdisciplinary inquiries for sustainability assessment; Green technologies and green innovation, scenario analysis and futures thinking; Programming for big data analysis and statistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In facing current climate and ecological crises, technological as well as behavioral change are urgently needed, and so is the assessment of new sustainable technologies and consumption patterns. However, the future is unpredictable, constantly changing, and intrinsically uncertain. We therefore need appropriate tools and approaches to address such uncertainty in prospective studies of sustainability assessment. This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers offering insights, approaches, and tools for the particular challenges related to dealing with uncertainty in prospective sustainability assessment. We expect papers from several disciplines as well as interdisciplinary contributions.
The issue welcomes contributions on the use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to tackle, reduce, and make explicit the uncertainty of prospective sustainability assessment studies. Topics covered might vary from, for example, stochastic- or system dynamics-based approaches in the modeling and anticipation of future technological systems and the adoption of emerging technologies at scale, to participatory scenario analysis and the use of expert and stakeholder-based surveys to identify industrial learning mechanisms and anticipate systemic changes. Studies focusing on existing challenges in prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) are especially welcome.
Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Assoc. Prof. Massimo Pizzol
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Technology assessment and forecasting
- Prospective life cycle assessment
- Green innovation and green technology upscaling
- Scenarios and participatory scenario development
- Decision support on emerging technologies
- Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in sustainability assessment models
- System dynamics and agent-based modelling for sustainability
- Stakeholders involvement and expert surveying
