Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches

Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-443-21651-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches: Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications provides different trends and approaches within the sustainability framework to assess their impact and offer possible solutions to problems facing the global sustainability paradigm. This book evaluates sustainability assessment approaches which support different levels of both decision-making and policy processes, thereby improving the management of natural and human systems. This book explores sustainable firm solutions, the upward trend of sustainability, and its variants. At the same time, different existing approaches are analyzed. These sustainable assessment approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the Product-Service-System (PSS), Circular Economy (CE), Industrial Symbiosis (IS), and Supply Chain (SC). Finally, the book explores Sustainability Indicators (SIs), which are widely used to measure and communicate progress towards sustainable development, along with Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), balancing the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social and economic).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossit, Daniel Alejandro

Mustansar Hussain, Chaudhery

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to - Evolution and Trends of Sustainability

Part 1: Approaches to Sustainable Solutions

2. Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methods
3. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Concentrating Solar Power technologies: a comparison between solar tower power and solar thermal parabolic trough generations in Brazil
4. Exploring sustainable workforce management: Trends, solution approaches, and practices
5. The challenges of undertaking and innovating with sustainable socio-environmental impact businesses: analysis of narratives from socio-environmental entrepreneurs in southern Bahia

Part 2: Sustainable Operations Management
6. Maintenance in operational condition and obsolescence management in a sustainable operations management context
7. Circular economy strategies for improving furniture management in educational institutions.
8. A multiobjective maximal covering/p-dispersion model for reverse vending machine location
9. Closed-loop supply chain and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): a literature review
10. A bi-objective mixed integer non-linear programming model for the cell switch-off problem considering quality of service and energy consumption
11. Solving a routing problem with time windows for an Argentinian case study in solid waste management

Part 3: Sustainability and Technology
12. A knowledge roadmap for digitally enabled construction and building supply chain management: A sustainability perspective
13. A cyber-physical system for improving the sustainability of freight logistics industry: A case of developing nation
14. Decision Support Systems for Green Hydrogen Supply Chain Design: A Comparative Study of Literature and Real-World Tools
15. Digital Technologies for Fostering Sustainability in Industry 4.0

Über Autor(innen)

Mustansar Hussain, Chaudhery
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas.

Rossit, Daniel Alejandro
Daniel Alejandro Rossit, PhD is an Assistant Researcher of CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina) and Teaching Assistant in the Engineering Department of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He has an Industrial Engineer degree and a PhD in Engineering. His research has focused on production problems, operations research and engineering systems optimization. He has published in journals such as Omega, International Journal of Production Research, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, among others.