Integrated Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Energy System Transformation Pathways

Tipping toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation.

This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and large-scale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the cur...

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Waste to Energy Technologies in Iran

Introduction: Current energy sources are coming to end and one of the main priorities of the country’s management is the energy recovery from renewable energy. Considerable quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most serious urban pollution sources. Impact assessment matrix is a new and fast tool for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Materials and Methods: In this regard, r...

Criteria Assessment of Energy Carrier Systems Sustainability

Sustainability Paradigm: Intelligent Energy System

The promotion of sustainable development is the European affirmation in the international arena and is European policy for the Union. However, the current situation— where the Sustainability is more intention than a practice—risks such European affirmation. In our analysis, we have assumed that the energy system is a complex system, which may interact with its surrounding by utilizing resources...

Sustainability and Safety Evaluation of Energy System

In the assessment of long term behavior of the complex system we have to introduce notion of sustainability as the measure for the quality of the system. It is defined as the quality which is measuring the ability of our society to secure and not compromise the ability of future generation to have quality of the life at least the same as our generation. The safety property of complex system is ...