Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment in Industrial Biotechnology

Magnus Fröhling is a professor of resource management at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. With his research, he aims at contributing to more sustainable industrial value chains by developing quantitative approaches for analysis, assessment and optimisation for these. Thereby he focuses on both, the material and energetic utilisation of renewable and fossil raw materials and energy carriers. Before joining TU Freiberg in 2015, Magnus Fröhling worked as group leader for the research group planning and assessment of industrial value chains at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and as a research associate at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Magnus Fröhling obtained his habilitation and teaching licence in business administration for a thesis on resource and energy efficiency in industrial value chains from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2011. With a thesis on material flow-based planning of production systems he received a doctoral degree in business administration from Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in 2005. In 2000 he completed his diploma studies in industrial engineering and management, also at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Michael Hiete is professor for chemistry and management (business chemistry) at Ulm University, Germany since 2016. His interdisciplinary research interests include techno-economic and life cycle assessment, sustainable industrial value chains as well as sustainability issues of raw materials and resources. Further interests are the sustainable built environment and risk management. In his work he uses a wide range of mostly quantitative methods. From 2012 to 2015 Michael Hiete was professor for industrial ecology and technological change at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), Universität Kassel. He received a habilitation degree and teaching licence for business management and environmental systems analysis from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and holds a diploma degree in environmental and doctorate in geosciences, both from Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig.

Part I: Introduction.- The Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessments of Industrial Biotechnology: An Introduction.- Part II: Background.- History, Current State, and Emerging Applications of Industrial Biotechnology.- Economic Aspects of Industrial Biotechnology.- Part III: Industrial Biotechnology from an Assessment Perspective.-  Environmental Aspects of Industrial Biotechnology.- Societal and Ethical Aspects of Industrial Biotechnology.- Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessments in Industrial Biotechnology: A Review of Current Approaches and Future Needs.-  Social Life Cycle Assessment for Industrial Biotechnology.- Part IV: Specific Methods and Applications.- Assessing Land Use and Biodiversity Impacts of Industrial Biotechnology.- Risk Assessment of Processes and Products in Industrial Biotechnology.- Green Chemistry and its Contributions to Industrial Biotechnology.-  Application of geobiotechnology in mining, mineral processing and metal recycling.- Assessing Industrial Biotechnology Products with LCA and Eco-Efficiency.