Guiding safe and sustainable technological innovation under uncertainty: a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaics

Blanco Rocha, C.F. (2022)

Doctoral Thesis

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

• LCA
• Ecological Risk Assessment
• Prospective
• Photovoltaics
• III-V/silicon
• Ex-ante
• Safe-by-Design
• Sustainable design
• Global Sensitivity Analysis
• Uncertainty Analysis

• All authors: Blanco Rocha, C.F.
• Supervisor: Vijver, M.G.; Peijnenburg, W.J.G.M.
• Co-supervisor: Cucurachi, S.
• Committee: Tukker, A.; Voet, E. van der; Huijbregts, M.A.J.; Bäck, T.H.W.; Dimroth, F.; Behrens, P.A.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Faculty of Science, Leiden University
• Date: 2022-09-08
• ISBN (print): 9789051919974