Circular bio-based building materials are “materials wholly or partly derived from renewable biological origins, or by-products and biowaste of plant and/or animal biomass that can be …
V Elia, MG Gnoni, F Tornese - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
In the last years, the circular economy (CE) paradigm is being widely explored by researchers and institutions as a possible path to increase the sustainability of our economic …
DI Stern - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the mainstream, resource economics, and ecological economics models of growth. A possible synthesis of energy‐based and mainstream models is presented. This …
F Saladini, N Patrizi, FM Pulselli, N Marchettini… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to growing interest in biofuels as alternative renewable energy sources, several recent studies have assessed the sustainability of their production. Emergy is a widely used …
SC Farber, R Costanza, MA Wilson - Ecological economics, 2002 - Elsevier
The purpose of this special issue is to elucidate concepts of value and methods of valuation that will assist in guiding human decisions vis-à-vis ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem …
L Alkhuzaim, Q Zhu, J Sarkis - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergy analysis has been gaining attention in its use as an environmental accounting tool. Its relationships and implications to sustainable supply chains and the circular economy are …
This paper provides a reference set of indices based on emergy, for the evaluation of ecotechnological processes and whole economies. Indices of emergy yield ratio (EYR) …
Energy consumption has always been a central issue for sustainable urban assessment and planning. Different forms of energy analysis can provide various insights for energy policy …