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Sustainability Assessment of Concepts for Energetic Use of Biomass: A Multi-Criteria Decision Support Approach

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2012

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  • Nils Lerche

    (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

  • Meike Schmehl

    (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

  • Jutta Geldermann

    (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Abstract

The energetic use of biomass offers considerable advantages with respect to sustainable development. Nevertheless, concerns exist about ecological aspects, such as adverse effects on biodiversity by promoting monocultures, as well as about social and ethical ones. The latter include for example the competition with food crops. Therefore, it becomes obvious that the assessment of concepts for biomass usage should not only be based on economic factors, but on a multi-criteria deliberation. Hence, methods of Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis seem to be suitable in this case. At first, an approach based on PROMETHEE for the assessment of different concepts of biomass usage, which has already been applied exemplarily for a rural area in southern Lower Saxony, is presented. Thereafter, the focus of this paper is to show how this approach could be enhanced to make it more suitable for the sustainability assessment of biomass potentials on a broader, regional scale.

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  • Nils Lerche & Meike Schmehl & Jutta Geldermann, 2014. "Sustainability Assessment of Concepts for Energetic Use of Biomass: A Multi-Criteria Decision Support Approach," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Stefan Helber & Michael Breitner & Daniel Rösch & Cornelia Schön & Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schu (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2012, edition 127, pages 77-82, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-00795-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00795-3_12
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