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Purpose – The Renewable Energy Directive (RED) is a specific example of life cycle assessment (LCA) applied to legislative measures that have far-reaching implications for economic operators. This paper aims to analyze LCA limitations for biofuels based on RED from an environmental accounting...
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must respect some sustainability criteria. We present in this paper an approach based on the complementarity of two … different tools to evaluate the Brazilian biofuel’s sustainability from the REN Directive’s perspective. On the one hand, the …
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“institutional entrepreneurs” (WBCSD and SustainAbility), who have contributed along towards the institutionalization of big …
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This paper investigates the cost of biomass co-firing in European coal power stations. We propose a tractable and … original method, that enables us to get expressions of biomass and CO2 breakeven points for co-firing in different types of … coal plants. We call them carbon switching price and biomass switching price. They correspond to carbon and biomass prices …
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how they could contribute to produce good quality LCA studies. For this, a case study was conducted on the sustainability … main findings emerge from this doctoral work. The first refers to the analysis of the sustainability evaluation required by …
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the French biotechnology sector, Regional Studies. The models of the geography of innovation do not take into account the …
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relationships of European biotechnology small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Findings – In this paper it is shown that …
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China faces significant challenges in reconciling food security goals with the objective of becoming a low-carbon economy. Agriculture accounts for approximately 11 % of China’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with cereal production representing a large proportion (about 32 %) of...
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socioeconomic risks related to the lack of sustainability of these practices in the long run. In this paper we address the notion of … sustainability and confront it with Tandroy's current productive and economic system. By means of the viability theory, we …
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