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.
Renewables' can either be the substituted raw materials that are used in a given industry, (e.g. the use of biomass for fuel); the use and/or modification of a crop for use in a new industry (e.g. plant cellulose), or the reuse of a waste product (e.g. organic waste for energy production).

This is the first book in the Wiley Renewable Resources series that brings together the range of sustainability assessment methods and their uses. Ensuing books in the series will look at individual renewable materials and applications.

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Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Series Preface
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I Renewables as a Resource and Sustainability Performance Indicators
1 The Contribution of Renewables to Society
2 The Potential of Renewables as a Feedstock for Chemistry and Energy
3 Sustainability Performance Indicators
Part II Relevant Assessment Tools
4 Life Cycle Inventory Analysis Applied to Renewable Resources
5 Net Energy Balancing and Fuel-Cycle Analysis
6 Life Cycle Assessment as an Environmental Sustainability Tool
7 Exergy
8 Material Flow Analysis and the Use of Renewables from a Systems Perspective
9 Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment
10 The Sustainable Process Index (SPI)
Part III Case Studies
11 Assessment of Sustainable Land Use in Producing Biomass
12 Assessment of the Forest Products Industries
13 Assessment of the Energy Production Industry: Modern Options for Producing Secondary Energy Carriers from Biomass
14 Assessment of Biofuels
15 Assessment of Organic Waste Treatment
16 Oleochemical and Petrochemical Surfactants: An Overall Assessment
17 Assessment of Bio-Based Packaging Materials
18 Assessment of Biotechnology-Based Chemicals
Assessment of Bio-Based Pharmaceuticals: The Cephalexin Case
Part IV Conclusions
20 Conclusions
Index

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