Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David Baxter, Maxwell Chipulu
Summary: This paper fills a gap in the academic literature by developing a new assessment model for sustainability-oriented innovation. The validity of the model is confirmed through testing, providing a comprehensive and validated tool for measuring organizational capability in delivering sustainable innovation.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Dominik Jasinski, James Meredith, Kerry Kirwan
Summary: A-SAM is an innovative model developed to drive sustainable decision-making in the automotive sector, enabling large car manufacturers to evaluate options and optimize decisions by quantifying external effects into monetary equivalents.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mahsa Khatibi, Khairul Anwar Mohamed Khaidzir, Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar, Ayyoob Sharifi
Summary: Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) is important for promoting sustainable cities. It allows meaningful evaluation of social, economic, and environmental impacts at the neighborhood scale. The link between the city and an individual adds to its popularity.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Ji Han, Pingfei Jiang, Peter R. N. Childs
Summary: This paper discusses key factors related to sustainable design regarding environmental impacts, and introduces a set of objective measures for evaluating sustainable product design concepts, including material, production, use, and end of life. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the use and effectiveness of these metrics. It is the first study focusing on the measurement of product design sustainability at the conceptual design stage, providing guidance to support designers in developing sustainable products.
Article
Environmental Studies
Iikka Oinonen, Riikka Paloniemi
Summary: Young people contribute to sustainability in various ways, showing their sense of responsibility towards sustainable development. Their actions differ from traditional pro-environmental behaviors. Researchers should consider sustainability actions and behaviors in a broad sense, including individual-collective, public-private sphere, and low-high effort continuums.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gorgi Krlev, Judith Terstriep
Summary: Sustainability transitions require shifts in multiple social systems, practices, and institutions. To better understand and measure the contributions of innovation, different innovation perspectives are needed. In this article, the authors review the current status of measurement across different innovation perspectives and propose a conceptual approach for measuring social innovation, enhancing our understanding of its contributions to sustainability transitions.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Robert W. Orttung, Oleg Anisimov, Svetlana Badina, Charlene Burns, Leena Cho, Benjamin DiNapoli, Matthew Jull, Melissa Shaiman, Ksenia Shapovalova, Leah Silinsky, Emily Zhang, Yelena Zhiltcova
Summary: Russia's Arctic cities have distinctive features and challenges compared to other Arctic cities. While they have advantages in terms of sustainability, there is also room for improvement through learning from other cities.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chih-Kai Yang, Hwong-Wen Ma, Kun-Hsing Liu, Mei-Hua Yuan
Summary: The circular economy represents a shift towards maximizing resource intensity and value addition. In terms of industrial waste management, this has led to a transition from the expansion of the recycling industry to the pursuit of optimum resource recovery quality. However, current methods of evaluating waste management performance, such as recycling rates, may be inadequate and misleading.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Narin Bekki, Duygu Turker
Summary: This study develops and tests a measurement model of sustainable supply chain strategies, identifying three theoretically-driven strategies and confirming a three-dimensional measurement model through survey data analysis and review of literature and corporate practices. Scholars and managers can use this model to investigate the implications of diverse sustainability strategies at supply chain context.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mei-Hua Yuan, Pei-Te Chiueh, Shang-Lien Lo
Summary: Cities are where food, energy, and water consumption takes place, which poses challenges and impact on natural resources. Renewable energy is found to play a significant role in the food-energy-water nexus at the city level, suggesting a focus on technological innovation for addressing complex challenges due to resource limitations in the future.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liano, Paul Ekins
Summary: Current environmental and sustainable development metrics fail to capture environmental sustainability in a comprehensive manner. To address this gap, the Strong Environmental Sustainability Progress Index (SESPI) is proposed, which measures whether countries can meet environmental sustainability standards by 2030 based on current trends. The results show mixed progress for European countries, indicating that overall, Europe is not on a sustainable path.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Irem Sarbat, Seren Ozmehmet Tasan
Summary: The decision making process is complex due to holistic requirements, which has significant impacts on stakeholders. This paper investigates the applicability of ergonomic indicators in monitoring and evaluating organizational processes within a hybrid multi-criteria perspective. The study identifies 15 ergonomic indicators that can facilitate sustainable process performance measurement. This research provides guidance for well-managed processes in organizations through the evaluation of ergonomic indicators on a hybrid multi-criteria perspective.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Review
Development Studies
Gabriel Andy Szalkowski, Christian Johansen
Summary: While the environmental and economic impacts of digital technologies on sustainability are well-researched, their societal implications have been largely overlooked. This study aims to fill this gap by providing a systematic review of the current research on the social sustainability impacts of digital technologies. The findings reveal an increasing interest in social sustainability, but also highlight gaps in empirical data, mathematical modeling, and consideration of security and privacy implications.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Federica Ielasi, Marco Bellucci, Mario Biggeri, Lucia Ferrone
Summary: Internal and external pressures are driving the financial system to become more socially and environmentally responsible. This study proposes a new indicator, the BESGI score, to measure the overall ESG performance of a bank. The model is unique because it is specific to banks, based on public data, and uses an innovative aggregation methodology to consider the synergies among dimensions and penalize heterogeneity.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Joana Goncalves, Ricardo Mateus, Jose Dinis Silvestre, Ana Pereira Roders, Luis Braganca
Summary: This study uses the Theory of Planned Behaviour to analyze the gap between designers' intentions and actual design decisions in heritage conservation, finding that attitudes significantly correlate with behavior while norms may not necessarily influence actions. Applying TPB to analyze designers' behaviors is an innovative methodological approach that opens up new possibilities for interventions targeting behavioral change towards sustainable conservation practices.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2021)
