ENVSTY 230 NEU Biomass as Renewable Energy Sustainability Questions

Find an article from the

Journal of Sustainability

or Sustainability Science

1. What topic did you search for to find this paper?

2. Provide the correct bibliographic reference for this paper.

3. What previous work & knowledge led to this study? What gap in knowledge will the study fill?

4. What Sustainability concept did this paper advance?

5. What is/are the specific research question(s)?

6. How were the data gathered and what methods are used to analyze the data?

Note: There are different types of studies – describe which type is study the paper you read is:

1. research studies collect and analyze data with statistical tests.
2. Meta analyses collect data from lots of other papers, and analyze the data with statistical tests
3. “case studies” look at other studies, and discuss them, but do not have metrics or data. They do not present data or statistical analyses.
4. Theoretical studies discuss issues, but do not use data and do not provide statistical analyses.

7. What are the major research findings?

8. Why is this research broadly important to the field and to society?

9. What could this paper have done better? Think critically – is there something this paper could have done differently?

10. Would you recommend others in the class read this paper? Why or why not?