Sustainability assessment of energy technologies: Towards an integrative framework

Energy, Sustainability and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Grunwald, Armin ^a   Rösch, Christine ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

energy futures; energy policy; grassland; sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

PLANNING;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; ENERGY FUTURE; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPATIBILITY; INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS POWER; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GRASSLAND; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84860302131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21920567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-0567-1-3     Document Type: Article

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