Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-criteria Decision Making provides a comprehensive sustainability analysis of biofuels based on life cycle thinking and develops various multi-dimensional decision-making techniques for prioritizing biofuel production technologies. Taking a transversal approach, the book combines life cycle sustainability assessment, life cycle assessment, life cycle costing analysis, social life cycle assessment, sustainability metrics, triple bottom line, operations research methods, and supply chain design for investigating the critical factors and key enablers that influence the sustainable development of biofuel industry.This book will equip researchers and policymakers in the energy sector with the scientific methodology and metrics needed to develop strategies for viable sustainability transition. It will be a key resource for students, researchers and practitioners seeking to deepen their knowledge on energy planning and current and future trends of biofuel as an alternative fuel.- Provides an innovative approach to promoting sustainable development in biofuel production by linking supply chain design and decision support with the life cycle perspective- Features case studies and examples that illustrate the theory and methods developed- Includes material on corporate social responsibility and economic analysis of biofuels that is highly useful to policy-makers and administrators in both government and enterprise sectors

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Chapter 1: Biofuels technologies: An overview of feedstocks, processes, and technologies
Chapter 2: Biofuel transitions: An overview of regulations and standards for a more sustainable framework
Chapter 3: Triple bottom line, sustainability and sustainability assessment, an overview
Chapter 4: Indicators for sustainability assessment of biofuels: Economic, environmental, social, and technological dimensions
Chapter 5: Life cycle sustainability assessment in the energy sector
Chapter 6: Hot-spots and lessons learned from life cycle sustainability assessment of inedible vegetable-oil based biodiesel in Northern Viet Nam
Chapter 7: A life cycle assessment of tri-generation from biomass waste: The experience of the “agro-combined” of Thibar
Chapter 8: Life-cycle costing: Analysis of biofuel production systems
Chapter 9: Social life cycle assessment of biofuel production
Chapter 10: Key issue, challenges, and status quo of models for biofuel supply chain design
Chapter 11: Fuzzy multicriteria decision making on ranking the biofuels production pathways
Chapter 12: Prioritization of biofuels production pathways under uncertainties
Chapter 13: A multicriteria intuitionistic fuzzy group decision-making method for sustainability ranking of biofuel production pathways
Chapter 14: An aggregated life cycle sustainability index for ranking biofuel production pathways
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