Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Chapter 5

Overview of environmental footprints

Lidija Čuček*, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš* and Zdravko Kravanja^†,    ^*Centre for Process Integration and Intensification - CPI², Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering - MŰKKI, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary,    ^†University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

With climate change and other negative environmental impacts, there is an increased interest in measuring and reducing environmental burdens. However, the question is how to measure and reduce environmental burdens. Recently, the researchers, organizations, policy-makers, and others are putting forth efforts to develop concepts and metrics measuring environmental sustainability. Among those concepts and metrics, environmental ...