Prospective Sustainability Assessment

Nixon, S.C., Hunt, D.T.E., Lallana, C., Boschet, A.F., Sustainable use of Europe s water , State, Prospects and Issues, Environmental Assessment Series, No 7, European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen (2004)... 

Saunders, C., D. Manhire, H. Campbell and J. Fairweather (1997), Organic Farming in New Zealand an evaluation of the current and future prospects including an assessment of research needs, MAF Policy Technical Paper No. 97/13, Wellington, New Zealand www.maf.govt.nz/niafnet/rural-nz/sustainable-resource-use/orgaiiic-production. 

Both systems are assessed from cradle to gate on three aspects of sustainability (Fig. 14.2) and for specific boundaries for reference and prospective systems (Figs. 14.3 and 14.4). The system boundaries are slightly different for three piUars of sustainabihty. For the environmental impacts, the study excludes impacts from the production of capital goods, which are typical to any previous LCA studies conducted because of its added complexity when coUecting data. Nevertheless, the economic and social impacts are assessed on an economy-wide scale, which includes aU sectors directly or indirectly related to the electricity generation process. 

Balat, H. (2010) Prospects of biofuels for a sustainable energy future a critical assessment. Energy Educ. Sci. Technol. 

Therefore, to have a sustainable skimming operation, in addition to the performance of skimmers, the overall performance of all the processes of containment by booms, storage, separation, and transportation, must be assessed, as well. The overall performance of the systems can be discussed from two prospective as in the following ... 

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