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Approaches for measuring the sustainability of energy systems or energy technologies—if they are meant to comply with the complexity and multiplicity of relationships between man, machine and nature—need to be concrete and measureable, but also abstract and not too narrow, to bridge normative settings and functional requirements as well as, to be analytic, interpretive and solution-oriented.
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Jenssen, T. (2013). A Kaleidoscope of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. In: Jenssen, T. (eds) Glances at Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5137-1_8
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