Multi Criteria Analysis for bioenergy systems assessments

Buchholz, Thomas; Rametsteiner, Ewald; Volk, Timothy A.; Luzadis, Valerie A.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.09.054

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“…However, some criticism of NAIADE can be found, such as that made by Garmendia et al and Buchholz et al [52,54]. Garmendia et al mentioned that NAIADE's characteristic of not weighting criteria is potentially problematic, since some dimensions or criteria may be considered more important than others [52].…”

Section: Literature and Method: A Participatory Multi-criteria Framewmentioning

confidence: 93%

Participatory Multi-Criteria Assessment of Forest Planning Policies in Conflicting Situations: The Case of Tenerife

Acosta

Quintana

2015

Forests

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Sustainable forest planning should involve the participation of stakeholder communities in the decision-making process. This participation can help avoid the possible rejection of new planning measures. In this paper, the decision-making process to implement regulations on the use of forest tracks on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) is analyzed. In recent years, the number of people using the island's forest environments has notably increased, leading to conflicts between different users of the tracks; as a result, the Island Council of Tenerife is working on regulating these pathways. This paper describes the framing analysis, design, and implementation of a participatory multi-criteria approach to explore, together with stakeholders, the best policy alternatives related to forest planning and management issues of forest track use. To do this, a set of tools has been developed, consisting of institutional analysis, participatory methods, and multi-criteria assessment techniques.

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Section: Literature and Method: A Participatory Multi-criteria Framewmentioning

confidence: 93%

Participatory Multi-Criteria Assessment of Forest Planning Policies in Conflicting Situations: The Case of Tenerife

Acosta

Quintana

2015

Forests

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“…Social and ecological impacts are the direct inevitable consequences of biofuels system development. The current study has adopted the key criteria (which are converted into relevant variables and parameters) identified in the works of Buchholz et al [130,131] on sustainability criteria for bioenergy systems. The study analyzed how key bioenergy stakeholders and experts perceived the list of 35 initially identified sustainability criteria for bioenergy (as shown in Table 1) found in emerging sustainability assessment frameworks [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

2011

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Abstract:The need for integrated methodological framework for sustainability assessment has been widely discussed and is urgent due to increasingly complex environmental system problems. These problems have impacts on ecosystems and human well-being which represent a threat to economic performance of countries and corporations. Integrated assessment crosses issues; spans spatial and temporal scales; looks forward and backward; and incorporates multi-stakeholder inputs. This study aims to develop an integrated methodology by capitalizing the complementary strengths of different methods used by industrial ecologists and biophysical economists. The computational methodology proposed here is systems perspective, integrative, and holistic approach for sustainability assessment which attempts to link basic science and technology to policy formulation. The framework adopts life cycle thinking methods-LCA, LCC, and SLCA; stakeholders analysis supported by multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); and dynamic system modelling. Following Pareto principle, the critical sustainability criteria, indicators and metrics (i.e., hotspots) can be identified and further modelled using system dynamics or agent based modelling and improved by data envelopment analysis (DEA) and sustainability network theory (SNT). The framework is being applied to development of biofuel supply chain networks. The framework can provide new ways of integrating knowledge across the divides between social and natural sciences as well as between critical and problem-solving research. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2011, 3 470

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“…The authors define a set of criteria and methodologies suitable to assess the sustainability of bioenergy systems. Buchholz et al (2009a) analyzed different applications based on MCA methods; their work defines the possibilities of the integration of different MCA techniques, taking into account the uncertainty of the evaluation. Among several studies, different applications of MCA in biomass evaluation were also defined in Erdogmus et al (2006) by the description of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and in Buchholz et al (2009b).…”

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Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

Sacchelli

Bernetti

Meo

et al. 2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Keywords:Wood energy chain Partial equilibrium model Multi-objective linear programming Geographic information system Sustainability assessment a b s t r a c tCombining the economics and the environmental and social aspects of bioenergy chain implementation is a difficult task, particularly for wood fuel production. Multiple aspects, such as financial analysis, technology development, natural resource exploitation and avoided environmental pollution, must be considered simultaneously. Thus, decision support models seem to be the proper tools for the overall definition of strategies in the wood energy sector.The objective of this study has been to develop a partial equilibrium model able to quantify the socioeconomic and environmental effects of policy, technology and best biomass allocation scenarios on the forest residue chain. The model, based on multi-objective linear programming and spatial analysis, considers the financial benefits/losses and the potential trends of three compartments: sawmills, forest enterprises and energy plants. In addition, the model computes avoided emissions for bioheat and bioelectricity production and introduces an impact indicator for the road transport of biomass. Model outputs are defined using a multi criteria approach. The main results stress the importance of both environmental parameters and the implementation of organic Rankine cycle technology for the optimization of the entire bioenergy chain. The model was tested in an Italian Alpine region (province of Trento).

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Multi Criteria Analysis for bioenergy systems assessments

Cited by 191 publications

References 32 publications

Participatory Multi-Criteria Assessment of Forest Planning Policies in Conflicting Situations: The Case of Tenerife

Participatory Multi-Criteria Assessment of Forest Planning Policies in Conflicting Situations: The Case of Tenerife

Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

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