a compilation of information and analysis of a range of sustainability assessment methods and their uses.

Sustainability is a key driving force for industries in the chemical, food, packaging, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors, and quantitative sustainability indicators are being incorporated into company reports. This is driving the uptake of renewable resources and the adoption of renewables.

The first book in the ‘Wiley Renewable Resources’ series, ‘Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment’, looks at the individual renewable materials and its applications.

Topics covered include sustainability performance indicators, contribution of renewables to society, potential of renewables as a feedstock for chemistry and energy, life cycle inventory analysis, net energy balancing and fuel-cycle analysis, life cycle assessment as an environmental sustainability tool, material flow analysis, use of renewables from a systems perspective, ecological footprints and bio-capacity, sustainable process index, assessment of sustainable land use in producing biomass, assessment of forest product industries, energy production industry, biofuels, organic waste treatment, oleochemical and petrochemical surfactants, bio-based packaging materials, biotechnology-based chemicals and bio-based pharmaceuticals.

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