The accelerated industrial growth and economic expansion of Southeast Asian economies have intensified the concern related environmental issues and natural resource depletion. Amid these circumstances, the study finds an opportunity to investigate the key enabling factors that enhance natural...

This research aims to inquire about the influence of energy markets on reshaping green recovery by studying the role of energy resource efficiency in energy reforms in China. Data was obtained from 2012 to 2019 to test the findings of this data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. The study...

Aim: This paper aims to identify the characteristic variables that influence firms' resource efficiency awareness and subsequently group countries based on the similarities of these influencing factors. Design / Research methods: We utilize data from the GESIS Data Archive and Flash...

In this commentary, we argue for the low-impact city as an alternative to the dominant urban imaginary of the low-carbon city. We adopt an ecological economics lens to expose the limitations of the urban resource efficiency paradigm when tackling environmental degradation beyond city boundaries....

The EU's 25.8 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs)1 are the backbone of the EU economy. Employing 88.7 million people, they contributed significantly to the EU employment and value added. 2 As well as being economically important, SMEs are environmentally important: although their...

The EU's 25.8 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs)1 are the backbone of the EU economy. Employing 88.7 million people, they contributed significantly to the EU employment and value added. 2 As well as being economically important, SMEs are environmentally important: although their...

Digitalisation has become a key process for companies to improve their sustainability, yet a clear overview of the challenges and achievements within European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) regarding digitalisation is still lacking in the literature, making it difficult to identify...

The overall purpose of this case study is to gain an understanding of the enabling factors and barriers that influenced the LIFE Programme 2014-2020 success in achieving a shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present practical...

This study examines the impact of digital integration on the environmental sustainability of European companies from 2016 to 2022, focusing on emissions reduction, environmental innovation, and resource efficiency. Using a two-stage system generalized method of moments (GMM) model and quantile...

This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...

Im September 2023 sind zwei wenig ermutigende Untersuchungen veröffentlicht worden: Das Klimasekretariat der Vereinten Nationen macht in seinem Report zur ersten Globalen Bestandsaufnahme (Global Stocktake) deutlich, dass die bisher zugesagten nationalen Klimaschutzbeiträge bei weitem nicht...

The relevance of efficient direct material input through both export market and domestic material sources offers useful material and resource productivity guidelines from both economic and environmental sustainability dimensions. In the current context, the drivers of material and resource...

Material Flow Analysis (MFA) has been widely used to understand the physical economy of the country and its implication on the economic and environmental issues. By subscribing to the data on Global Material Flow Database released by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International...

Das Wohnen in Deutschland wird schon seit einigen Jahren durch zwei bedeutende Entwicklungstendenzen bestimmt: Zum einen sinkt die durchschnittliche Haushaltsgröße, zum anderen vergrößert sich die mittlere Pro-Kopf-Wohnfläche. Infolgedessen steigt die Wohnraumnachfrage deutlich an, was...

Das Wohnen in Deutschland wird schon seit einigen Jahren durch zwei bedeutende Entwicklungstendenzen bestimmt: Zum einen sinkt die durchschnittliche Haushaltsgröße, zum anderen vergrößert sich die mittlere Pro-Kopf-Wohnfläche. Infolgedessen steigt die Wohnraumnachfrage deutlich an, was...

"The book presents a collection of 14 book chapters addressing key issues for the transition towards a green and digital economy and the achievement of UN's sustained development goals. In particular the chapters discuss topics like blue economy, circular economy, digital economy, food supply...

Wastewater systems in developed cities contribute significantly to public health. The related systems are energy and resource intensive and do not recover nutrients in an efficient and effective way. Separating wastewater to greywater and blackwater at the source and exploiting organic municipal...

Climate change, the accelerated industrialization of emerging countries, as well as the growing demand for transparency from stakeholders, are all factors that influence the environmental performance of companies. Thus, eco-efficient behavior can improve financial performance by increasing...