Sustainability Concept for Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Abstract

This review is aimed to introduce historical background for the sustain ability concept development for energy, water and environment systems. In the assessment of global energy and water resources attention is focussed in on the resource consumption and its relevancy to the future demand. In the review of sustainability concept development special emphasize is devoted to the definition of sustainability and its relevancy to the historical background of the sustainability idea. In order to introduce the sustainability measurement the attention is devoted to the definition of respective criteria. There have been a number of attempts to define the criterions for the assessment of the sustainability of the market products. Having those criterions as bases, it was introduced a specific application in the energy system design. Demonstration of the multi-criteria sustainability measurement of the energy system options based on the selected number indicators, namely: efficiency, economic, environmental and social indicators.