The development of commercial local area resource and emissions modelling – navigating towards new perspectives and applications

Bradley, P.A.; Druckman, Angela; Jackson, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.11.009

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“…For example, water supply and sewerage systems tend to be more localised than food supply systems, that have extensive global supply chains for both inputs (e.g., fertiliser) and outputs (i.e., food). However, the effects of WEF systems may be experienced on different scales to that which they are managed, for example, the embedded water in food systems (Kumar and Singh 2005 ) or the emissions associated with production mean that localised patterns of consumption have global impacts (Bradley et al 2013 ). Furthermore, compared to these incumbent systems, innovations within the nexus tend to be more localised social or technical experiments.…”

Section: Research Challenges In the Wef Nexus Spacementioning

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Engaging stakeholders in research to address water–energy–food (WEF) nexus challenges

et al. 2018

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The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has become a popular, and potentially powerful, frame through which to analyse interactions and interdependencies between these three systems. Though the case for transdisciplinary research in this space has been made, the extent of stakeholder engagement in research remains limited with stakeholders most commonly incorporated in research as end-users. Yet, stakeholders interact with nexus issues in a variety of ways, consequently there is much that collaboration might offer to develop nexus research and enhance its application. This paper outlines four aspects of nexus research and considers the value and potential challenges for transdisciplinary research in each. We focus on assessing and visualising nexus systems; understanding governance and capacity building; the importance of scale; and the implications of future change. The paper then proceeds to describe a novel mixed-method study that deeply integrates stakeholder knowledge with insights from multiple disciplines. We argue that mixed-method research designs—in this case orientated around a number of cases studies—are best suited to understanding and addressing real-world nexus challenges, with their inevitable complex, non-linear system characteristics. Moreover, integrating multiple forms of knowledge in the manner described in this paper enables research to assess the potential for, and processes of, scaling-up innovations in the nexus space, to contribute insights to policy and decision making.

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Section: Research Challenges In the Wef Nexus Spacementioning

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“…While this focus is understandable, it has been criticised for many years as being too narrow (Marland et al., 2015; Milne, 1996; Stechemesser & Günther, 2012). In corporate practice, reference points to assess an organization's sustainability performance are either past emission levels, own reduction goals, the industry average or best practices (Bradley et al., 2013). Such information, however, does not tell us anything about whether the respective reductions are sufficient to achieve SDGs or be in line with an economy operating in the safe space of planetary boundaries.…”

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“…Assessing the role of supply chains on broader stakeholder groups(Taplin et al 2006). Applying and disseminating new accounting approaches by consultancies(Bradley et al, 2013).…”

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Corporate sustainability management accounting and multi‐level links for sustainability – A systematic review

Schaltegger

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Wenzig

et al. 2022

Int J Management Reviews

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The societal vision of sustainable development changes both the context of businesses and expectations that management should contribute to solving sustainability problems beyond organizational boundaries. Companies are influenced by macro-level developments such as new environmental regulations and by meso-level context such as social industry standards and guidelines. At the same time, companies are expected to contribute to sustainability transformations of markets at the meso-level and to solving grand sustainability problems at the macro-level such as the greenhouse effect. These developments increase and change sustainability information needs of managers and management accounting. This paper provides a systematic literature review of how sustainability management accounting (SMA) addresses links with the organization's contexts and contributions to sustainability transformations beyond organizational boundaries. The analysis questions the conventional assumption of an internal scope for SMA. It recognises this as a problematic constricting assumption in the literature and, instead, proposes a multi-level Context, Action-formation and Transformative contributions (CAT) framework for further development of SMA.

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“…The shoe manufacturer Puma was the first company to ever conduct and publicly publish an EP&L in 2012 and as of early 2015 only four—from Puma (shoes), Yorkshire Water (water), NovoNordisk (pharmaceuticals) and Kerning (luxury clothing)—have been published . Multiple studies have mentioned the need for something along the lines of EP&L accounting, or summarized what Puma has done, but no EP&Ls have involved energy companies and none have involved wind energy or wind turbines.…”

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Valuing the manufacturing externalities of wind energy: assessing the environmental profit and loss of wind turbines in Northern Europe

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This study draws from a concept from green accounting, lifecycle assessment, and industrial ecology known as "environmental profit and loss" (EP&L) to determine the extent of externalities across the manufacturing lifecycle of wind energy. So far, no EP&Ls have involved energy companies and none have involved wind energy or wind turbines. We perform on EP&L for three types of wind turbines sited and built in Northern Europe (Denmark and Norway) by a major manufacturer: a 3.2 MW onshore turbine with a mixed concrete steel foundation, a 3.0 MW offshore turbine with a steel foundation, and a 3.0 MW offshore turbine with a concrete foundation. For each of these three turbine types, we identify and monetize externalities related to carbon dioxide emissions, air pollution, and waste. We find that total environmental losses range from €1.1 million for the offshore turbine with concrete foundation to €740,000 for onshore turbines and about €500,000 for an offshore turbine with steel foundation-equivalent to almost one-fifth of construction cost in some instances. In other words, offshore turbines with steel foundations have the least environmental damage, onshore turbines are in the middle, and offshore turbines with concrete foundation the most damage. We conclude that carbon dioxide emissions dominate the amount of environmental damages and that turbines need to work for 2.5 to 5.5 years to payback their carbon debts. Even though turbines are installed in Europe, China and South Korea accounted for about 80% of damages across each type of turbine. Lastly, two components, foundations and towers, account for about 90% of all damages. We conclude with six implications for wind energy analysts, suppliers, manufacturers, and planners.

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The development of commercial local area resource and emissions modelling – navigating towards new perspectives and applications

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Engaging stakeholders in research to address water–energy–food (WEF) nexus challenges

Engaging stakeholders in research to address water–energy–food (WEF) nexus challenges

Corporate sustainability management accounting and multi‐level links for sustainability – A systematic review

Valuing the manufacturing externalities of wind energy: assessing the environmental profit and loss of wind turbines in Northern Europe

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