Search Results - subject:"System boundaries"

Process mapping for relevance : revisiting the sustainability opportunity study

Rosvall, Max - In: Embracing Sustainability Management Through Excellence …, (pp. 162-173). 2024

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Circular economy : the concept and its limitations

Korhonen, Jouni; Honkasalo, Antero; Seppälä, Jyri - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 143 (2018), pp. 37-46

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The Importance of Considering Product Loss Rates in Life Cycle Assessment: The Example of Closure Systems for Bottled Wine

Kounina, Anna; Tatti, Elisa; Humbert, Sebastien; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2673-2706

the drain and replacing it with a new bottle). This study aims to illustrate the importance of accurately defining system … boundaries related to wine packaging systems. <em>Methods:</em> The environmental impacts resulting from wine loss rates as …

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System Energy Assessment (SEA), Defining a Standard Measure of EROI for Energy Businesses as Whole Systems

Henshaw, Philip F.; King, Carey; Zarnikau, Jay - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1908-1943

A more objective method for measuring the energy needs of businesses, System Energy Assessment (SEA), measures the combined impacts of material supply chains and service supply chains, to assess businesses as whole self-managing net-energy systems. The method is demonstrated using a model Wind...

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Evaluation of a feeding strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming: The level of analysis matters

Van Middelaar, C.E.; Berentsen, P.B.M.; Dijkstra, J.; … - In: Agricultural Systems 121 (2013) C, pp. 9-22

The dairy sector contributes to climate change through emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), via mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Replacing grass silage with maize silage is a feeding strategy to reduce enteric CH4 emission. The effect of this strategy on GHG...

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How methodological issues affect the energy indicator results for different electricity generation technologies

Modahl, Ingunn Saur; Raadal, Hanne Lerche; Gagnon, Luc; … - In: Energy Policy 63 (2013) C, pp. 283-299

The aim of this paper is to improve the basis for the comparison of energy products. The paper will discuss important methodological issues with regard to various energy indicators and it will, by means of a few selected energy indicators, show examples of results for hydropower, wind power and...

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