Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7FS, UK.
Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7FS, UK.
J Environ Manage. 2020 Jun 15;264:110464. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110464. Epub 2020 Apr 4.
Sustainable operations of energy production systems have become an increasingly important policy agenda globally because of the massive pressure placed on energy resources needed to support economic development and population growth. Due to the increasing research interest in examining the operational impacts of energy production systems on the society and the environment, this paper critically reviews the academic literature on the clean, affordable and secure supply of energy focussing on methods of assessments, measures of sustainability and emerging issues in the literature. While there have been some surveys on the sustainability of energy production systems they have either tended to focus on one assessment approach or one type of energy generation technology. This study builds on previous studies by providing a broader and comprehensive examination of the literature across generation technologies and assessment methods. A systematic review of 128 scholarly articles covering a 20-year period, ending 2018, and gathered from ProQuest, Scopus, and manual search is conducted. Synthesis and critical evaluation of the reviewed papers highlight a number of research gaps that exist within the sustainable energy production systems research domain. In addition, using mapping and cluster analyses, the paper visually highlights the network of dominant research issues, which emerged from the review.
由于经济发展和人口增长对能源资源的巨大压力，能源生产系统的可持续运行已成为全球日益重要的政策议程。由于越来越多的研究关注能源生产系统对社会和环境的运营影响，本文批判性地回顾了关于能源清洁、经济实惠和安全供应的学术文献，重点关注评估方法、可持续性衡量标准和文献中的新出现问题。虽然已经有一些关于能源生产系统可持续性的调查，但它们要么倾向于关注一种评估方法，要么关注一种能源发电技术。本研究通过对跨发电技术和评估方法的文献进行更广泛和全面的检查，建立在前人的研究基础上。对 20 年来（截至 2018 年）从 ProQuest、Scopus 和手动搜索中收集的 128 篇学术文章进行了系统综述。对综述论文的综合和批判性评估突出了可持续能源生产系统研究领域存在的一些研究差距。此外，本文还使用映射和聚类分析，直观地突出了综述中出现的主导研究问题网络。
