A review of methods contributing to the assessment of the environmental sustainability of industrial systems

Angelakoglou, Komninos; Gaidajis, Georgios

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.094

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“…Things have cooled downat least politically -and more pressing needs such as economic recessions, bank failures and the current EU crisis may have taken precedence (Angelakoglou and Gaidajis, 2015;Milne and Grubnic 2011). Different motivations can be proposed.…”

Section: Evolution Of Area F: Carbon Accounting -Sample 1992-2016mentioning

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“…COP 15 Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in late 2009 -may have turned into indifference, despite the (apparently) positive results of the recent COP 21Conference on Climate Change in Paris. Things have cooled downat least politically -and more pressing needs such as economic recessions, bank failures and the current EU crisis may have taken precedence (Angelakoglou and Gaidajis, 2015;Milne and Grubnic 2011). Furthermore, from a scientific point of view, carbon accounting remains conceptually contested, as doubts have been expressed about the reliability and validity of carbon assessment methodologies (Ascui and Lovell 2011).…”

Section: Evolution Of Area F: Carbon Accounting -Sample 1992-2016mentioning

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The Evolution of Sustainability Measurement Research

Mura

Longo

Micheli

et al. 2018

Int J Management Reviews

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Research in sustainability measurement has been growing at a very high pace over the past years, and it has explored a variety of issues, from sustainability disclosure to measurement in green supply chains, from the diffusion of environmental standards to the political use of sustainability metrics. This study is the first to report and discuss the results of a comprehensive review of the sustainability measurement literature. In particular, the authors adopt a wide conceptualization of the measurement process, and analyze data through a bibliometric method–bibliographic coupling. The results show that the literature is divided into eight distinct areas of inquiry and 12 sub‐fields, some of which have expanded significantly over recent years, and others appear to be waning. Furthermore, the lack of a comprehensive view of sustainability measurement has led to the development of many separate communities, resulting in duplications of effort, incomplete framing of the problem, and the proposal of partial solutions. However, findings drawn in sustainability measurement research could inform current debates in performance measurement and management in three main ways: by emphasizing stakeholders’ roles in the design, implementation and use of measures; by indicating ways to establish common measures and sharing data between organizations; and by adopting novel theoretical perspectives. Equally, future sustainability measurement studies could benefit from consideration of extant research on strategic performance measurement and on the behavioral effects of measurement practices.

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Section: Evolution Of Area F: Carbon Accounting -Sample 1992-2016mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evolution Of Area F: Carbon Accounting -Sample 1992-2016mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of Sustainability Measurement Research

Mura

Longo

Micheli

et al. 2018

Int J Management Reviews

152

112

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“…These approaches can be classified based on their objectives, performance [34,35], strategy [36,37], or management [9,17,32,[38][39][40][41]. They can also be classified depending on the tools proposed for quantification [42][43][44][45][46][47][48], communication [49][50][51][52], or integration [12,13] (Table 1). A proposal for a model to analyse the materiality of sustainability…”

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Integrating Sustainability in Organisations: An Activity-Based Sustainability Model

Rodríguez-Olalla

Avilés-Palacios

2017

Sustainability

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Organisations have become interested in using integral management systems to increase their sustainable value. Although global integration models address sustainability in organisations, these models present shortcomings and limitations and do not describe how to achieve the integration of sustainability. This paper proposes an Activity-Based Sustainability (ABS) integration model that complements other models from an inside-out perspective. Its assessment follows a procedure similar to that proposed by the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) model of cost accounting. The model assigns impacts from activities in the value chain of a process to the objects of impact (products, services, clients, or markets) that must be managed in terms of sustainability. The main limitations of the ABS model are the need to identify and describe processes, to locate every activity that constitutes the value chain, and to quantify the impacts of these activities. The ABS model is presented as an alternative to link sustainable management accounting and sustainable communication, as well as sustainable management control and sustainability assessment. It connects these sustainable elements through the bilateral identification of the linkages among skills, processes, and practices. It also links these aspects with the contribution to sustainable development and the development of competitive advantages.

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“…Each method has specific advantages and disadvantages associated with its particular characteristics. However, the general features that an efficient method of evaluating sustainability must, as described (a) in the literature [4,24,40], (b) in the definition of sustainability, and (c) as defined by the requirements of the end-user, i.e., addressing issues related to its applicability and usability [2], do the following [14]:…”

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“…In order to facilitate their analysis, the thirteen selected methods were classified based on their particular characteristics and their basic idea in four (4) categories, namely, "Indicators/Indices", "Resource Availability Assessment", "Material and Energy Flow Analysis", and "Life-Cycle Assessment" (see Table 3). The specific categorization is based on the categorization proposed by Angelakoglou and Gaidajis [14] and is widely acceptable in the economic sectors [24]. Table 2.…”

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Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Spatial Entities with Anthropogenic Activities-Evaluation of Existing Methods

Aktsoglou

Gaidajis

2020

Sustainability

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the existing available methods that can potentially be applied to anthropogenic spatial entities to access their environmental sustainability. The paper offers an overview of existing sustainability assessment methods, discusses their adequacy, and evaluates their efficiency to assess the environmental sustainability of anthropogenic spatial entities. From a list of sixty-one (61) sustainability assessment methods for spatial entities with anthropogenic activities that had been identified and examined, thirteen (13) methods were selected to be assessed based on specific exclusion criteria set. The thirteen methods were further classified into four categories, namely, (1) Indicators/Indices, (2) Resource Availability Assessment, (3) Material and Energy Flow Analysis, and (4) Life-Cycle Assessment, and then these methods were evaluated using specific evaluation criteria. The “Resource Availability Assessment” category, and particularly the “Ecological Footprint” method, was indicated as the most appropriate method to assess the environmental sustainability of anthropogenic spatial entities.

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A review of methods contributing to the assessment of the environmental sustainability of industrial systems

Cited by 84 publications

References 107 publications

The Evolution of Sustainability Measurement Research

The Evolution of Sustainability Measurement Research

Integrating Sustainability in Organisations: An Activity-Based Sustainability Model

Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Spatial Entities with Anthropogenic Activities-Evaluation of Existing Methods

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