Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2013"

TL;DR: The state of the art in preprocessing of End-of-life materials containing rare-earth elements (REEs) and the final recovery is discussed in detail in this article, where the relevance of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for REE recycling is emphasized.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation and propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and analyze the published definitions of green supply chain management (GSCM) and sustainable supply chain Management (SSCM) and two different sets of key characteristics for business sustainability (economic, environmental, social, stakeholder, volunteer, resilience, and long-term focuses) and SCM (i.e., flow, coordination, stake holder, relationship, value, efficiency, and performance focuses) were proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sustainable development strategy proposed by the central government of China, aiming to improve the efficiency of materials and energy use, is presented, formally accept by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, three strategies of CO2 reduction including energy saving, carbon separation and storage as well as utilizing alternative materials in detail have been reviewed and the barriers against worldwide deployment of such strategies are identified and comprehensively described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a review of 178 articles dating from 1999 to 2011 from journals related to business, management, and accounting to identify what determinants of sustainability reporting are examined in the literature and to identify (in)consistencies, gaps, and opportunities for future research.

TL;DR: The 2010 edition of the ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference as mentioned in this paper was the first edition of a special issue dedicated to the business model concept for sustainable innovation in the context of sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of identifying an effective model based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach (economic, environmental, and social aspects) for supplier selection operations in supply chains by presenting a fuzzy multi criteria approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the texts of eleven declarations, charters, and partnerships developed for higher education institutions to represent university leaders' intentions to help improve the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD).

TL;DR: In this article, a review encompasses a summary of research performed in last 15 years (1998-2013) in different arenas of applications of natural dyes, with specific reference to technological development in natural textile dyeing and use of natural Dyes in functional finishing of textiles, food coloration and dye-sensitized solar cells.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated approach of fuzzy multi attribute utility theory and multi-objective programming is presented for rating and selecting the best green suppliers according to economic and environmental criteria and then allocating the optimum order quantities among them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Urban Transition Labs (UTL) as settings in which real life trajectories of sustainable development in cities are deployed and at the same time carefully observed; in a co-creative collaboration between actors and researchers (transdisciplinary research).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship strength between environmental education and environmental knowledge, attitudes and reported actual behavior of university and high school students, providing a comparative questionnaire survey analysis which is unique in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have analyzed the barriers for the implementation of green supply chain management in Indian auto component manufacturing and found that the supplier barrier is the dominant barrier for the adoption of GSCM.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore and evaluate previous work focussing on the relationship and links between Lean and Green supply chain management practices, and provide evidence suggesting that Lean is beneficial for Green practices and the implementation of Green practices in turn also has a positive influence on existing Lean business practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influential factors among eight criteria of three main green supply chain management practices, namely practices, performances, and external pressures, and utilized the fuzzy set theory and decision making trial and evaluation laboratory method to form a structural model to find out the cause and effect relationships among criteria.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a literature review on the product-service system, including 149 papers published from 2006 to 2010, and discuss specific features of the product service system as well as the benefits and drawbacks that the literature has addressed in recent years.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of environmental knowledge on pro-environmental behavior among university students from countries with different levels of economic development (USA, Spain, Mexico and Brazil) was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors utilize the Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach to recognize the influential criteria of carbon management in green supply chain for improving the overall performance of suppliers in terms of carbon Management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how market demand affects green product innovation and firm performance in the context of Vietnamese motorcycle industry and found that market demand is positively correlated with both green-product innovation and the firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) binder on the reduction of CO2 in secondary precast concrete products.

TL;DR: The potential and suitability of these thermochemical technologies for enhanced waste management (EWM) and enhanced landfill mining (ELFM) applications are discussed in this article, with a focus on municipal solid waste (MSW), possibly processed into refuse derived fuel (RDF).

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used hierarchical analysis to examine whether drivers motivate Chinese manufacturers to implement extended supply chain (ESC) practices for sustainable production and consumption, and what kinds of barriers exist.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the existing competence schemes of study programs within two Belgian universities in the fields of business management, office management, and applied information technology, and found that the competence related to responsibility and emotional intelligence are widely integrated, while competences for SD dealing with system orientation, future orientation, personal commitment, and action taking are virtually absent.

TL;DR: In this article, a process for producing fuel grade methanol from captured CO2 is proposed, which is designed and simulated with Aspen Plus, and the CO2 balance of the process showed that it is possible to abate 1.6 t of CO2 per tonne of methanoline produced if oxygen byproduct is sold, or 1.2 t if it is not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the case of a printed circuit board manufacturer in Taiwan that seeks to implement green supply chain management (GSCM) and selects a green supplier to meet its requirements is presented.

TL;DR: A special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production addressed sustainability through green supply chain management, design and practice in Asia by examining opportunities for sustainable consumption and production (SCP) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista (The Sao Paulo State University), Avenida Engenheiro Edmundo Carrijo Coube, Bauru, Brazil, CEP 17033360 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework that can be used to integrate CSR into business processes, highlighting the concept of simultaneous top-down integration and bottom-up community-related indicators development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors link two debates and literatures at the cutting edge of sustainable development research and governance: sustainable consumption and degrowth, arguing that these literatures have only recently started to exchange and integrate insights, despite their similar interest in the fundamental systemic challenges to sustainable development.