A critical review of reductionist approaches for assessing the progress towards sustainability

A Gasparatos, M El-Haram, M Horner - Environmental impact assessment …, 2008 - Elsevier
The increasing prominence of Sustainable Development as a policy objective has initiated a
debate on appropriate frameworks and tools that will both provide guidance for a shift …

Exergy as a global energy sustainability indicator. A review of the state of the art

JC Romero, P Linares - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper looks at the suitability of using exergy as an indicator for energy sustainability
studies, by reviewing the relevant literature and describing and assessing the different uses …

A circular economy within the planetary boundaries: Towards a resource-based, systemic approach

H Desing, D Brunner, F Takacs, S Nahrath… - Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
Circular Economy (CE) is the buzzword of today, promising an economy able to prosper on
limited resources by closing material cycles. However, there is no guarantee that simple …

Exergoenvironmental analysis for evaluation of the environmental impact of energy conversion systems

L Meyer, G Tsatsaronis, J Buchgeister, L Schebek - Energy, 2009 - Elsevier
To improve the ecological performance of energy conversion systems, it is essential to
understand the formation of environmental impact at component level. A method has been …

The argument against a reductionist approach for measuring sustainable development performance and the need for methodological pluralism

A Gasparatos, M El-Haram, M Horner - Accounting forum, 2009 - Elsevier
Both sustainability and sustainable development continue to remain elusive concepts even
now, 20 years after the Brundtland Commission report that brought them into prominence …

Overcoming the inadequacy of single-criterion approaches to Life Cycle Assessment

S Ulgiati, M Raugei, S Bargigli - Ecological modelling, 2006 - Elsevier
In this work, the authors intend to introduce to the scientific community a novel integrated
approach to environmental impact assessment, appropriately named SUstainability …

Advancing quantification methods of sustainability: A critical examination emergy, exergy, ecological footprint, and ecological information-based approaches

A Kharrazi, S Kraines, L Hoang, M Yarime - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
Sustainability is increasingly used to describe a paradigm for shaping the social and
economic future of mankind. While the concept of sustainability remains elusive, various …

Novel application for exergy and thermoeconomic analysis of processes simulated with Aspen Plus®

E Querol, B Gonzalez-Regueral, A Ramos… - Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
A visual basic application for Microsoft® Excel 2007 has been developed as a helpful tool to
perform mass, energy, exergy and thermoeconomic (MHBT) calculations during the …

Thermoeconomic modeling and optimization of a hydrogen production system using geothermal energy

C Yilmaz - Geothermics, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermoeconomic optimization procedure is applied using genetic algorithm method to an
integrated system composed of an alkaline water electrolysis unit for hydrogen production …

Rethinking vulnerability in city-systems: A methodological proposal to assess “urban entropy”

R Fistola, C Gargiulo, RA La Rocca - Environmental impact assessment …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aims at proposing a possible alternative point of view to investigate the
vulnerability of urban systems. The basic ideal refers to the possibility of thinking about …