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SUBMITTER: Moioli E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358151 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moioli Emanuele E Salvati Federico F Chiesa Marco M Siecha Roza T RT Manenti Flavio F Laio Francesco F Rulli Maria Cristina MC
Advances in water resources 20181101
This paper assesses the sustainability of bioenergy production under a nexus perspective through a new efficiency type index. The index describes 1st generation biofuel production under the perspective of the implied consumption of natural resources. We consider the sustainability of energy production as a sequence of steps, each characterised by its efficiency, and propose an index which returns an overall efficiency value describing the adequacy or inadequacy of the considered processes under ...[more]