A5063874029- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Process Optimization and Integration
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Economic theories and models
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
2015-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2015-2024
Tokushima University
2014
Environmental Technologies (United States)
2010-2012
Stellenbosch University
2012
Cornell University
1994-2009
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2005-2009
Federation University
2009
European Commission
2009
University of Wisconsin System
2009
This paper explores the existing confusion around conceptual definitions and interpretations of term circular bioeconomy. The co-existence diametrically opposite concept indicates lack a serious discussion its theoretical foundations. Two narratives on bioeconomy are explored in depth: (i) new economic paradigm based technological progress (the economics promises) that seeks perpetual growth; (ii) an entropic (thermodynamic) narrative reflects limits growth imposed by nature. latter makes...
The present crisis of science's governance, affecting reproducibility, scientific peer review and integrity, offers a chance to reconsider evidence based policy as it is being practiced at present. Current exercises entail forms quantification – often in the form risk analysis or cost benefit analyses which aim optimize one among set options corresponding generally single framing issue under consideration. More cogently deepening view what problem has effect distracting from could be...
This paper summarizes the main findings of GLAMUR project which starts with an apparently simple question: is “local” more sustainable than “global”? Sustainability assessment framed within a post-normal science perspective, advocating integration public deliberation and scientific research. The spans 39 local, intermediate global supply chain case studies across different commodities countries. Assessment criteria cover environmental, economic, social, health ethical sustainability...
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Faced with the twin threats of peak oil and climate change, many governments have turned for an answer to apparent panacea biofuels. Yet, increasingly, progressive implementation this solution demonstrates that promise biofuels as a replacement fossil fuels is in fact mirage that, if followed, risks leaving us short power, food doing much damage ever -- let alone consequent impact on biodiversity due additional loss habitat agricultural production rural development stress traditional farming...
This paper explores the implications of widespread success term circular economy in institutional and public debate. The concept itself implies a logical contradiction: on one hand, acknowledges dependence biophysical flows; other proposed solution—a business model guaranteeing full decoupling from natural resources—seemingly ignores that processes are subject to thermodynamic constraints. A view sustainability predicament—the flows exchanged between technosphere biosphere — is depicted show...
How to tackle uncertainties and ensure quality in integrated assessment for sustainability? To what extent does the choice of methodology condition narrative produced by analysis? The present work argues that two questions are tightly coupled. technique is never neutral. If we tools our tools, as suggested Thoreau, then it can also be said language not only a vehicle communication, driver well. For this reason, sustainability unusual discern close relationship between arguments made methods...
Abstract I argue that the popularity of circular bioeconomy concept in policy-making is symptomatic a profound crisis sustainability science, which generated by adoption an obsolete scientific paradigm, i.e., ontologies used to describe our interaction with external world. The result systemic lack quality control on science–policy interface. growing awareness pending collapse life support systems and rapidly changing world order would require society rediscuss its identity. However, current...
This article delves into the intricacies of waste management in Tehran, offering insights structured framework governing control solid materials. As collected, average daily generation municipal (MSW) region is 0.645 kg per inhabitant. Unexpectedly, impact socio-economic factors on processes such as garbage sorting, creating products from recyclable waste, and composting was shown to be comparatively weaker than that supporting elements. The initial approach entails providing environmental...
The serious food crisis in 2007 has reinstated the issue of security. In particular, it evokes an old set questions associated with sustainability adequate supply: are we facing a systemic shortage arable land for production? How is oil dependence security relation to peak (the point time when maximum rate global extraction reached)? To answer these one study role technical inputs agricultural production, especially those generated from fossil energy (how much used? which inputs? tasks?)....
The term 'Jevons Paradox' flags the need to consider different hierarchical scales at which a system under analysis changes its identity in response an innovation. Accordingly, of implications Jevons Paradox must abandon realm reductionism and deal with complexity inherent issue sustainability: When studying evolution real change how can we define "what has be sustained" that continuously becomes something else? In attempt address this question paper presents three theoretical concepts...