Environmental and socio-economic feasibility assessment of rice straw conversion to power and ethanol in Thailand

Delivand, Mitra Kami; Barz, Mirko; Gheewala, Shabbir H.; Sajjakulnukit, Boonrod

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.06.005

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Section: Discussing the State Of Social Life Cycle Assessment Indicatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Empirical research on the utilities sector (12 papers) primarily aims at comparing social impact scenarios of electric power generation, transmission, and distribution through renewable (Ahmad and Tahar 2014;Delivand et al 2012;Thornley et al 2009;Yu and Halog 2015), conventional (Shih and Tseng 2014), and/or nuclear energy alternatives (Cartelle Barros et al 2015;Klein and Whalley 2015;Maxim 2014;Santoyo-Castelazo and Azapagic 2014;Stamford and Azapagic 2011). The social impacts of water, sewage, and other systems are less frequently investigated in research related to utilities (Lehmann et al 2013;Molinos-Senante et al 2014).…”

Section: (In)consistencies and Gaps In The Empirical Experience Acrosmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Kühnen

Hahn

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

151

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Summary Industrial ecology (IE) and life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) are increasingly important in research, regulation, and corporate practice. However, the assessment of the social pillar is still at a developmental stage, because social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is fragmented and lacks a foundation on empirical experience. A critical reason is the absence of general standardized indicators that clearly reflect and measure businesses’ social impact along product life cycles and supply chains. Therefore, we systematically review trends, coherences, inconsistencies, and gaps in research on SLCA indicators across industry sectors. Overall, we find that researchers address a broad variety of sectors, but only few sectors receive sufficient empirical attention to draw reasonable conclusions while the field is additionally still largely an a‐theoretical one. Furthermore, researchers overlook important social core issues as they concentrate heavily on worker‐ and health‐related indicators. Therefore, we synthetize the most important indicators used in research as a step toward standardization (including critical challenges in applying these indicators and recommendations for their future development), highlight important trends and gaps (e.g., the focus on worker‐ and health‐related indicators and the a‐theoretical nature of the SLCA literature), and emphasize critical shortcomings in the SLCA field organized along the key phases of design, implementation, and evolution through which performance measurement approaches such as SLCA typically progress in their development and maturation. With this, we contribute to the maturation and establishment of the social pillar of LCSA and IE.

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Section: Discussing the State Of Social Life Cycle Assessment Indicatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: (In)consistencies and Gaps In The Empirical Experience Acrosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Kühnen

Hahn

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

151

114

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“…This approach has also been widely applied in countries and regions interested in developing renewable energy. For example, Bhattacharyya et al (2012) and Pandey et al (2012) first report the management and utilization of fertilizer in India, and numerous studies use this framework to investigate renewable energy production in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, United States, and China (Delivand et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2011;McCarl et al, 2009;Shafie et al, 2014;Silalertruksa and Gheewala, 2013;Soam et al, 2016;Suramaythangkoor and Gheewala, 2011).…”

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An economic analysis on Taiwanese wind power and regional development

Chen

Zhang

Kung

2020

Energy Exploration & Exploitation

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Due to environmental concern, Taiwan aims to remove nuclear power from its energy structure. Since an increase in fossil fuel-based generation is foreboded by law, the lost nuclear power can only be replaced by renewable energy sources. The maritime climate and constant monsoons make wind power a feasible alternative energy source to Taiwan. With more than 300 potential wind farm sites under consideration, the government does not have enough information to determine the best sites in terms of power generation and capital investments. To explore such information, this study employs a lifecycle analysis to identify the economic components of these sites under the estimates of wind speed data and potential wind power generation obtained in our previous study. We also use a sensitivity analysis to examine the impact of construction cost, maintenance cost, energy sale, and emission trade on the site selection decision. We show that variations in construction costs and energy prices have larger impacts than greenhouse gases prices. In addition, the results point out that most sites pass the cost-benefit examination, but site rankings may alter in the face of capital rationing and climate change. Some policy implications derived from the results are discussed in detail.

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“…At the same time, generating employment opportunities in the agribusiness sector featuring environmentally-friendly approaches for straw management (Delivand et al, 2012). Among developed countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and European Union many have shown interest in using biomass energy.…”

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Developing More Green Agribusiness: The Case for Exploiting Malaysia’s Under-Utilised Rice Straw

Rosmiza¹,

Davies

Rosniza³

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Environmental and socio-economic feasibility assessment of rice straw conversion to power and ethanol in Thailand

Cited by 43 publications

References 34 publications

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

An economic analysis on Taiwanese wind power and regional development

Developing More Green Agribusiness: The Case for Exploiting Malaysia’s Under-Utilised Rice Straw

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