Research Question- How can a company in the leather industry improve its eco-efficiency? Motivation- In the academic literature, there is a significant number of contributions that address the intersection between accounting and sustainability. However, the number of papers dedicated to...

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...

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.

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....

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...

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...

After successful government-led afforestation projects, what are the challenges for forest management in the face of climate change in East Asia? This reprint presents studies from the natural and social sciences related to forest conservation, engineering, disaster sociology, and forest policy...

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...

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...

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...

In the global context related to the social and environmental crisis, this article aims to carry out an analysis of the variables that influence the competitiveness of multi-store companies in the Coquimbo Region, Chile, based on the formulation and effective use of a sustainable value...

Sustainable intensification measures promise ecological improvements of farming while maintaining profitability. That is, farms should be able to produce at a higher ecological efficiency without losses in economic efficiency. Based on a theoretical framework, we investigate this promise...

Sustainable Intensification (SI) practices offer adopters exploiting improvement potentials in environmental performance of farming, i.e. enhance ecosystem functionality, while maintaining productivity. This paper proposes a directional meta-frontier approach for measuring farms' eco-efficiency...

In recent years, modern society has faced a number of challenges related to the achievement of global goals for sustainable development. Industrial enterprises are challenged to generate, stimulate, and demand changes in networks and supply chains, but these challenges require flexibility and...

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...

In recent years, modern society has faced a number of challenges related to the achievement of global goals for sustainable development. Industrial enterprises are challenged to generate, stimulate, and demand changes in networks and supply chains, but these challenges require flexibility and...

"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...