Cleaner Production initiatives and challenges for a sustainable world: an introduction to this special volume

Almeida, C.M.V.B.; Bonilla, Sílvia H.; Giannetti, Biagio F.; Huisingh, Donald

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.010

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“…4 Our paper makes three substantive contributions to the literature. First, it incorporates entrepreneurship activity into the standard environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) 3 model and…”

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Entrepreneurship and sustainability: The need for innovative and institutional solutions

Youssef

Boubaker²,

Omri

2018

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The role of innovation and institutional quality for achieving sustainability are important issues tackled by current sustainable development debates, particularly in developing countries. Using a modified environmental Kuznets curve model, the present study improves our understanding of the critical roles of innovation, institutional quality, and entrepreneurship in structural change toward a sustainable future for Africa. Our empirical results show that formal and informal entrepreneurship are conducive to reduced environmental quality and sustainability in 17 African countries however informal entrepreneurship contributes more than formal entrepreneurship to this environmental degradation. The relationship between entrepreneurship and sustainable development turns strongly positive in the presence of high levels of innovation and institutional quality. This study contributes to this emerging research strand by clarifying the conditions that allow African countries to move toward more sustainable economies. Our results highlight the important roles played by innovation and institutions for achieving sustainability in Africa.

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“…4 Our paper makes three substantive contributions to the literature. First, it incorporates entrepreneurship activity into the standard environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) 3 model and…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship and sustainability: The need for innovative and institutional solutions

Youssef

Boubaker²,

Omri

2018

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

258

114

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“…These tools are: life cycle assessment (LCA), emergy and exergy accounting, carbon balance, and multi-criteria analysis (Almeida et al 2013). Changes within the companies, such as the substitution of an input or a process modernization, are monitored in a quantitative and holistic way (Almeida et al 2013). Multi-criteria analysis allows problems involving multiple criteria to be structured and resolved.…”

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Integrating resource criticality assessment into evaluation of cleaner production possibilities for increasing resource efficiency

Malinauskienė

Kliopova

Slavickaitė

et al. 2016

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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A stable and secure source of raw materials is the key to any successful industrial activity. Resource criticality is often discussed in the context of the impact on the economies of certain geographic regions. However, the availability of required resources first of all concerns the competitiveness of industrial companies, especially in those countries which do not possess abundant natural resources. The Lithuanian economy relies heavily on imports since the country does not have abundant natural resources. The paper introduces resource criticality as an additional dimension for evaluating and prioritizing resource efficiency improvement options. Evaluation of resource criticality was integrated into the methodology for evaluation of Cleaner Production. Simple additive weighting (SAW) was used to solve the multi-criteria decision-making problem. The previous study on the natural resources that are imported to Lithuania revealed that metals are among the most important raw materials in terms of economic importance, supply, and environmental risks. Therefore, a typical metal processing company in Lithuania was selected for the detailed investigation of technological processes and Cleaner Production possibilities. The selected company processes about 3000 tons of various metals per year. The results of Process Material Flow Analysis show that most of the metal waste is generated during the metal plate cutting process (about 30.3 % of total metal consumption). Three resource efficiency improvement alternatives were evaluated and compared. The suggested decision support system was tested in order to decide on a definitive solution. The results reveal that evaluation of resource criticality in terms of geostrategic supply risk and economic importance can be used as an advantageous criterion to support the prioritization of Cleaner Production alternatives.

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“…Such an integration of the many methodologies developed and the need for a merger of analyses of both energetic, material flows (Baccini and Brunner, 2012) and economics (Amundsen, 2000;Seager and Theis, 2002;Ayres et al, 2003;Svensson et al, 2006;Alroth and Finnveden, 2011;Fiorito, 2013) should receive more attention and have a high priority in order to formulate the proper strategies to reach a sustainable society (Korhonen, 2004;Almeida et al, 2013). Furthermore, there is a need for such tools to be firmly rooted in a world view constrained in (bio-)physics (Hannon et al, 1993;Nielsen, 2007Nielsen, , 2009Nielsen and Müller, 2009).…”

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Sustainability analysis of a society based on exergy studies – a case study of the island of Samsø (Denmark)

Nielsen

Jørgensen

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Cleaner Production initiatives and challenges for a sustainable world: an introduction to this special volume

Cited by 94 publications

References 50 publications

Entrepreneurship and sustainability: The need for innovative and institutional solutions

Entrepreneurship and sustainability: The need for innovative and institutional solutions

Integrating resource criticality assessment into evaluation of cleaner production possibilities for increasing resource efficiency

Sustainability analysis of a society based on exergy studies – a case study of the island of Samsø (Denmark)

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