Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems

Acknowledgements ix

Part I Engineering and Sustainability 1

1 Engineering Sustainability, Sustaining Engineering 3

2 A Critical History of Sustainability Engineering 23

3 Resisting Sustainability 77

Part II Life Cycle Analysis 111

4 When Social Values Make an Entry 113

5 Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) Rationalities 149

Part III Case Studies 191

6 Life Cycle Sustainability, Renewable Energy Project Development, and the Exclusion of Local Knowledge in California's Western Antelope Valley (WAV) 193

7 Through an Ethnographic Lens: Local-Regional Politics of Utility Solar and Wind Siting in California 235

8 Epilogue 303

Bibliography 317

Appendix 1: Solar Ranch One Timeline (Siting, Permitting, Financing and Pre-Construction) 346

Appendix 2: Sample of Community Concerns as Regards to the Solar Ranch One, Alpine, Wildflower and Blue

Sky RE projects 349

Index 355

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