Unter Einbeziehung der Forschungsbereiche Kritikalitätsanalyse, Life Cycle Impact Assessment und Social Life Cycle Assessment entwickelt Christoph Kolotzek ein Modell zur Bewertung metallischer Rohstoffe und präsentiert einen Leitfaden zur Integration des Modells im unternehmerischen Kontext.
The number of companies that are adopting sustainability strategies and disclosing information related to Environmental, Social and Corporate governance (ESG) issues is on the rise.
Obwohl digitale Medien in den letzten Jahren gewaltiges Wachstum erfahren haben, ist die Gewährleistung der Authentizität der Daten, um die Identität des Besitzers oder Senders zu garantieren, Urheberrechte durchzusetzen, den Nachweis der Unversehrtheit und Integrität zu erbringen oder Manipulationen zu erkennen weitgehend ungelöst.
Alexander Haas schafft mit der Entwicklung der Intelligence Systeme als mögliche Weiterentwicklung der Business Intelligence und deren konkreter Anwendung im Logistik- und Supply Chain Management einen Ansatz, den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung entgegen zu treten.
This book provides different approaches used to analyze, draw attention, and provide an understanding of the advancements in the optimization field across the globe.
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains.
This title in the Building the Future of Tourism series offers a comprehensive overview of the significant challenges faced by the tourism industry in the area of sustainable development.
This book discusses the application of different machine learning techniques to the sub-concepts of smart cities such as smart energy, transportation, waste management, health, infrastructure, etc.
The world is currently experiencing a sixth period of mass species extinction, and extinction of flora and fauna is caused by a variety of factors arising from industrial activity and increasing human population, such as global warming, climate change, habitat loss, pollution and use of pesticides.
This book presents contemporary case studies on selected Italian food and wine products to explore how traditional production and consumption models address and adapt to the sustainability challenges in the Italian high-excellence agri-food sector.
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it.
The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established.
Corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility have become hot topics of debate for business, academia and organised civil society in Latin America.
It is now clear that human activity has influenced how the biosphere supports life on Earth, and given rise to a set of connected environmental and social problems.
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.
This volume addresses the need to integrate gender equality into business and management education and provides examples of leading initiatives illustrating how this can occur from various disciplinary and global perspectives.
Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.
This comprehensive book addresses the multifaceted challenges posed by technological innovation, ecological transitions, and sustainable business practices.
The book focuses on the recent developments in the areas of error reduction, resource optimization, and revenue growth in sustainable manufacturing using machine learning.
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Climate Action focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number thirteen (SDG13): urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
This book, based on a huge European and Asian research project, is a state-of-the-art examination of the theory and practice of system innovation through Product-Service System (PSS) design for sustainability from a trans-cultural viewpoint.
This book covers state-of-the-art technologies, principles, methods and industrial applications of electronic waste (e-waste) and waste PCB (WPCB) recycling.
This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.
An interdisciplinary framework for managing sustainable agrifood supply chains Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides an up-to-date and interdisciplinary framework for designing and operating sustainable supply chains for agri-food products.
The environmental analysis of pollution problems always involves the use of mass and energy balances to quantify the extent of pollution and its sources.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in 'the commons' based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing.
Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the development of new products and services is no longer enough.
Accounting sustainably involves accounting for and to the natural environment, and accounting for and to society, including groups currently oppressed or disadvantaged by unsustainable processes and practices.
Ecofeminism is defined as a unique academic discipline, theoretical framework, and political and philosophical movement centred around both environmental and feminist concerns.
