Climate Change Technology R&amp;D Portfolio Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Baker, Erin; Keisler, Jeffrey M.; Chon, Haewon

doi:10.2172/940975

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“…Furthermore, it is appropriate for the integration of qualitative data (Saaty, 1977;Sabaei, et al, 2015) using practitioner derived scoring scales. While weighting derivation is a characteristic strength of AHP, it can have significant influence on final scores or recommendations (Baker, et al, 2001), potential mitigation strategies are explored in literature (de Jong, 1984;Marcus & Minc, 1988). Large criteria counts can also cause issues within AHP, effecting both workloads and consistency.…”

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Custodians of carbon: creating a circular carbon economy

Newman,

Dowson,

Platt

et al. 2023

Front. Energy Res.

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To stand a chance of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions and in the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals society must move away from being consumers of carbon to being custodians. While SDG 7 focuses on clean energy, chemicals and materials are themselves energy, energy stored in chemical bonds. Behavioural change is needed to appreciate the societal value of carbon and to recycle carbon already present in the environment, so extracting more fossil carbon from the Earth is avoided. Society needs to develop new technologies such as carbon capture and utilisation to create value-added products from what is otherwise waste. To do this effectively, the social impact of change must be considered, its effect on the environment, and whether this transition makes economic sense. If there is social injustice, then new approaches are needed. If there is no environmental benefit, then interventions must be reconsidered. This becomes an iterative process seeking to achieve the best-balanced scenarios. As new technologies develop, interventions by governments providing aid to subsidise and accelerate new technologies will be needed. Care must be taken to ensure fiduciary duty is applied so the best possible use of public money is delivered. In this paper a systems approach is taken in developing a new circular carbon economy, where models are developed to include lifecycle, techno-economic, and social impact assessment studies into any policy development and commercialisation plans. It is vitally important to develop this methodological thinking early in that planning phase to avoid serious errors that could be costly financially, socially and environmentally. In early stages of development, a coarse-grained approach is required focusing on hotspot analysis. Once hotspots have been identified, finer grained analysis can be undertaken to develop rational approaches to process and policy development. It is vitally important that all disciplines are included within the development of such models, relying not only on engineers and scientists, but also social scientists, psychologists and financial experts. If such an approach is developed now, there is a good chance of identifying acceptable pathways to achieving sustainable development goals. This paper addresses gaps in the CO2 utilisation where social and fiscal issues are often overlooked.

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Custodians of carbon: creating a circular carbon economy

Newman,

Dowson,

Platt

et al. 2023

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Many studies have been performed on sustainability multi-criteria assessment (Bockstaller et al 2015;Sadok et al 2008), and a number of recurrent points have been raised, despite the absence of a preferred methodology relevant to all sustainability assessment issues. Criteria must be relevant, understandable, measurable, nonredundant, and as few in number as possible, and a complete assessment requires all the criteria to be considered together (Baker et al 2002;Keeney and Raiffa 1976;Maystre et al 1994;Recchia et al 2011;Sadok et al 2009).…”

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Sustainability assessment in innovation design processes: place, role, and conditions of use in agrifood systems. A review

Perrin

Bertoluci

Angevin

et al. 2023

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Facing the ecological and social crisis that the agrifood systems cross, a profound transformation of food systems is required, necessitating systemic and sustainable innovations. Sustainability assessments are generally performed to identify and/or validate the improvement in sustainability conferred by a designed artifact relative to the current or standard situation. However, they can have many other benefits in the design process. Here, we review the place, role, and conditions of use of sustainability assessment in innovation design processes in agrifood systems. By cross-referencing published findings and our own experience, we formalize a design process highlighting the place of sustainability assessment, whether design is intended for the creation of an agricultural or food artifact. We identify three types of assessment: initial diagnosis, screening between solutions at the ideation stage, and evaluation at the prototyping and development stages. We discuss ways of performing each of these assessments and highlight general key points about sustainability assessment. A first set of key points relate to criteria and indicators, a second set to the role of stakeholders, a third one to the adaptive nature of the assessment, and the last one to the uncertainty consideration. These key points provide guidance for efficient assessment in the design of innovations to increase the sustainability of agrifood systems. Thus, we demonstrate that the design process of innovations for sustainable agrifood systems requires (1) to formalize the place and mode of assessment, (2) to make use of relevant sustainability criteria and indicators, (3) to reinforce participatory practices, and (4) to adapt the assessment to the context of the designed artifact, to facilitate choices between imperfect solutions. Such an approach aims to promote innovations that meet the expectations of the system’s direct stakeholders, but also integrate the needs of invisible actors such as the environment or the well-being of populations.

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“…Once the problem has been defined, Figure 1 includes an outline of the steps in the decision process [33]. This process is followed by the methodology developed and described in this section.…”

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Typology Selection of Retaining Walls Based on Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods

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In civil engineering and construction, in the selection of the most adequate and sustainable alternative, all of the alternatives and selection criteria, such as the requirements of the construction process (which are often overlooked) and the preferences of designers, clients, or contractors, are not always taken into account. The purpose of this article is to suggest a methodology that may allow studying all of the possible alternatives to find the most ideal solution among all of the existing possibilities for the selection of retaining walls to be built in infrastructures in different environments. For this purpose, all typologies of retaining walls and selection criteria (external requirements, construction requirements, characteristics of the natural land and economic criteria) are first identified. Subsequently, a simple methodological method is proposed, allowing the relative importance of each criterion to be established and allowing us to select the most suitable solution for each situation by successively applying different multicriteria decision-making methods. Finally, the methodology developed is applied to two projects in different locations with different constraints. The results obtained provide a set of compromise solutions that remain as best-rank alternatives when the weights of the criteria change. Therefore, the methodology developed can be applied to the selection of typologies of other structures in future projects.

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Climate Change Technology R&D Portfolio Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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Custodians of carbon: creating a circular carbon economy

Custodians of carbon: creating a circular carbon economy

Sustainability assessment in innovation design processes: place, role, and conditions of use in agrifood systems. A review

Typology Selection of Retaining Walls Based on Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods

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