Overview
- Presents innovative multi-criteria decision analysis methods for sustainable energy systems
- Explores numerous different criteria and conditions in a systematic way
- Utilizes case studies, examples, and illustrations to clearly demonstrate points
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (11 papers)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents various multi-criteria analysis methods for sustainability-oriented analysis and decision-making for energy systems, under various different conditions and scenarios. It presents methodologies to answer the questions relating to which of the options are the most sustainable among the alternatives, and how multi-criteria decision analysis methods can be used to select the most sustainable energy systems.
A systematic innovative methodological framework is presented, which enables the most appropriate energy system to be selected under different conditions including:
This book is of interest to researchers, engineers, decision makers, and postgraduate students within the field of energy systems, sustainability, and multi-criteria decision analysis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Jingzheng Ren is currently Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Southern Denmark, and Associated Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security & Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). He received his Ph.D. degree in 2015 from the University of Padua, He worked as Fulltime Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark before moving to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published more than 200 publications including 150 journal papers, 1 authored book, 11 edited books, and more than 40 book chapters. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer) and Subject Editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), and he has also served as the session chair, an academic member, and a technical committee member of many international conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Systems Evaluation (Volume 2)
Book Subtitle: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Editors: Jingzheng Ren
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67376-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67375-8Published: 25 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67378-9Published: 26 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67376-5Published: 24 May 2021
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 278
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general