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

摘要: 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, well social and ethical ones. latter include for example the competition food crops. Therefore, it becomes obvious that assessment concepts usage should not only be based economic factors, but a multi-criteria deliberation. Hence, methods Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis seem suitable in this case. At first, an approach PROMETHEE different usage, which has already been applied exemplarily rural area southern Lower Saxony, is presented. Thereafter, focus paper show how could enhanced make more sustainability potentials broader, regional scale.