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View article: Ecosystem Collaboration for Sustainability: Learnings from the Food System
Ecosystem Collaboration for Sustainability: Learnings from the Food System Open
Individual firm and ecosystem level efforts are required to meaningfully improve sustainability across the food system. While there has been extensive research on collaboration for sustainability in the food system, these studies focus on …
View article: Operationalizing leverage points in business model design for sustainable systems change
Operationalizing leverage points in business model design for sustainable systems change Open
Systems change can help to address sustainability challenges and interventions at deep leverage points of a system can be applied to do so. By studying 9 sustainable entrepreneurial businesses, this paper looked at how entrepreneurial firm…
View article: Toward more ethical engagements between Western and Indigenous sciences
Toward more ethical engagements between Western and Indigenous sciences Open
There is growing interest among Western-trained scientists in engaging with Indigenous sciences. This interest has arisen in response to social pressures to reckon with the colonial foundations of Western science and decentre Western ways …
View article: Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility
Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility Open
Biomanufacturing practitioners and researchers describe the norms that should govern the growing, global field, to include safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility. These '4S Principles' should be broadly adopted so that…
View article: Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation
Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation Open
This conceptual paper reviews recent efforts to confront colonialism in conservation, with an emphasis on the challenges and complexities that have emerged among settler organizations engaged in this work. We consider recent academic and g…
View article: Comparison of outflow hydrographs following dam breach arising from overtopping, wide-width overtopping, and geotechnical seepage failure mechanisms.
Comparison of outflow hydrographs following dam breach arising from overtopping, wide-width overtopping, and geotechnical seepage failure mechanisms. Open
Dam breach is a large-scale, highly unsteady, and complex water-sediment flow. Dam breach events span scenarios involving natural dams (created following valley blocking landslides) to scenarios involving anthropogenic structures such as w…
View article: Unpacking Additive Manufacturing Challenges and Opportunities in Moving towards Sustainability: An Exploratory Study
Unpacking Additive Manufacturing Challenges and Opportunities in Moving towards Sustainability: An Exploratory Study Open
The global market for Additive Manufacturing (AM) is expected to grow, which may increase the prominence of sustainability aspects in the manufacturing process. A growing number of AM academics and practitioners have started to pay attenti…
View article: Key tasks for ensuring economic viability of circular projects: Learnings from a real-world project on repurposing electric vehicle batteries
Key tasks for ensuring economic viability of circular projects: Learnings from a real-world project on repurposing electric vehicle batteries Open
In order to reach sustainable consumption and production patterns at scale, the implementation of a circular economy (CE) and the corresponding circular business models (CBM) increasingly need to become competitive with linear alternatives…
View article: A literature review of energy waste in the manufacturing industry
A literature review of energy waste in the manufacturing industry Open
In order to respond to climate change, different governments set their own carbon neutrality targets by considering their own realities. Under such a circumstance, manufacturing companies are pressured to improve their energy performance s…
View article: Getting to YES: The Evolution of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center Youth Enjoy Science (YES) Academy
Getting to YES: The Evolution of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center Youth Enjoy Science (YES) Academy Open
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center Academy (Hillman Academy) has the primary goal of reaching high school students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds and guiding them through a cutting-edge r…
View article: Prevent food allergy alerts: an incentive-based approach
Prevent food allergy alerts: an incentive-based approach Open
The majority of UK food recalls are due to allergen mislabelling, misleading allergen claims and/or the unintentional presence of allergens – representing a significant food safety risk and cost to industry. Labelling legislation must be f…
View article: Two-Lenses Model to Unfold Sustainability Innovations: A Tool Proposal from Sustainable Business Model and Performance Constructs
Two-Lenses Model to Unfold Sustainability Innovations: A Tool Proposal from Sustainable Business Model and Performance Constructs Open
This research combines corporate sustainability performance and sustainable business model concepts to improve the corporate sustainability of organizations. The main objective of this article is to propose and apply a tool to identify sus…
View article: Building our worlds: co-developing future scenarios as a methodology for fashion researchers and designer-innovators
Building our worlds: co-developing future scenarios as a methodology for fashion researchers and designer-innovators Open
In the context of climate and social injustice at global and local scales; commitment to change is being translated into resource efficiency and problem-minimising activities. These actions are not enough to make a required radical shift f…
View article: COP26 Futures We Want - UK Country Profile
COP26 Futures We Want - UK Country Profile Open
This regional profile for the UK was developed in the context of the BEIS COP26 Futures We Want project. It has been developed with input from in-country academic experts Dr Emily Shuckburgh (University of Cambridge, UK) and Professor Stev…
View article: Optimal Remanufacturing Service Resource Allocation for Generalized Growth of Retired Mechanical Products: Maximizing Matching Efficiency
Optimal Remanufacturing Service Resource Allocation for Generalized Growth of Retired Mechanical Products: Maximizing Matching Efficiency Open
Maximizing the residual value of retired products and reducing process consumption and resource waste are vital for Generalized Growth-oriented Remanufacturing Services (GGRMS). Under the GGRMS, the traditional product-oriented remanufactu…
View article: Mitigating the Impact of Factories on the Landscape: An Assessment and Design Support Tool
Mitigating the Impact of Factories on the Landscape: An Assessment and Design Support Tool Open
Being widely responsible for environmental degradation, industry represents a key asset to manage for a more sustainable and healthier living environment. However, factories affect more than just the physical sphere of the landscape, also …
View article: Exploring social sustainability aspects concerning the well-being of workers in Chinese factories
Exploring social sustainability aspects concerning the well-being of workers in Chinese factories Open
Welfare monitoring in Chinese factories has focused on physical working conditions, with workers' overall well-being largely unexplored. The many codes attempting to define basic standards may not reflect workers' priorities. We used digit…
View article: Digitalization Technologies for Industrial Sustainability
Digitalization Technologies for Industrial Sustainability Open
Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Antalya, Turkey, 2005
View article: Innovation catalysts for industrial waste challenges: Sri Lankan and Thai cases
Innovation catalysts for industrial waste challenges: Sri Lankan and Thai cases Open
We explore the specific challenges that Asian developing countries experience with their industrial waste from manufacturing. We collected empirical data in Sri Lanka and Thailand through four workshops, 16 interviews and in-situ observati…
View article: A methodology for the modular structure planning of product-service systems
A methodology for the modular structure planning of product-service systems Open
Product-service system (PSS) is an important way of the transformation and upgrading of modern manufacturing industry, it is also one of core development trends of intelligent manufacturing. A PSS can be configured quickly and cheaply to m…
View article: Empowering political participation through artificial intelligence
Empowering political participation through artificial intelligence Open
Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) can radically change the existing political paradigm, empowering more diffused forms of political participation beyond elections-especially in the emergent worldwide context of unrestricte…
View article: LANDSCAPE COMPATIBILITY OF FACTORIES: FROM PRACTICES TO TACTICS
LANDSCAPE COMPATIBILITY OF FACTORIES: FROM PRACTICES TO TACTICS Open
Industrial facilities are responsible for several detrimental effects on the landscape.Impact occurs in terms of both interference in the main ecosystem's physical matrices and intense perceptual-aesthetic contrasts with the landscape.As a…