Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches: Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications

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). Explores innovative strategies and advanced trends of sustainable approaches, engineering, and industrial applicationsAnalyzes sustainability assessments and their role in planning and project processesReviews state-of-the-art sustainable technologiesEvaluates approaches for organizations to achieve both sustainability assessment and sustainable solutions INDICE: 1. Introduction to - Evolution and Trends of SustainabilityPart 1: Approaches to Sustainable Solutions2. Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methods3. 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 practices5. The challenges of undertaking and innovating with sustainable socio-environmental impact businesses: analysis of narratives from socio-environmental entrepreneurs in southern BahiaPart 2: Sustainable Operations Management6. Maintenance in operational condition and obsolescence management in a sustainable operations management context7. Circular economy strategies for improving furniture management in educational institutions.8. A multiobjective maximal covering/p-dispersion model for reverse vending machine location9. Closed-loop supply chain and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): a literature review10. A bi-objective mixed integer non-linear programming model for the cell switch-off problem considering quality of service and energy consumption11. Solving a routing problem with time windows for an Argentinian case study in solid waste management Part 3: Sustainability and Technology12. A knowledge roadmap for digitally enabled construction and building supply chain management: A sustainability perspective13. A cyber-physical system for improving the sustainability of freight logistics industry: A case of developing nation14. Decision Support Systems for Green Hydrogen Supply Chain Design: A Comparative Study of Literature and Real-World Tools15. Digital Technologies for Fostering Sustainability in Industry 4.0

• ISBN: 978-0-443-21651-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 550
• Fecha Publicación: 14/06/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés