Mapping social context of sustainable attitudes using stakeholder analysis with discourse analysis: Investigating the maritime sector in order to provide knowledge about future technological pathways

Maritime sectors have been notorious for their slow paced innovation efforts and although it is an efficient sector, it has big impact on the environment just because of the size of the industry (M. Rahim, et al. 2016). There is a lot of activity on the seas, changes in this sector could make a big difference when making our world become more...

Adaptive Re-use of Industrial Heritage in Dutch Post-industrial Urban Area Development: The relation of the adaptive reuse and the added value in regards to the economic, social, and environmental sustainability

Urbanization, modernization, and the growth of the population put severe pressure on the current Dutch building stock. Inner-city developments in Dutch cities are limiteddue to the high density of the urban fabric. Therefore, the focus of urban transformation gradually moved from the inner-city developments to the periphery of the city. These...

Sustainability Assessment of Power Generation Systems by Applying Exergy Analysis and LCA Methods

The selection of power generation systems is important when striving for a more sustainable society. However, the results of environmental, economic and social sustainability assessments are subject to new insights into the calculation methods and to changing needs, economic conditions and societal preferences. Researchers active in the field of...