Enterprises around the world, and particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies, are facing an increasing number of threats and challenges due to globalisation and rapid environmental changes. This research intends to frame a specific role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm performance and then examine mediating effects of customer retention and business continuity

This study empirically investigates the relationships between lean management practices, dynamic capabilities, and sustainable business performance (including economic, environmental, and social performance). Based on the dynamic capabilities approach, known also as a theory of sustainable competitive advantage, we explain why many adopters of lean management fail to sustain positive outcomes over

Given their increasing number and the implementation of more energy-intensive treatment methods, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) expect to increase energy consumption. In addition, climate change presents new challenges to the operation of these facilities, thus being critical to understand how to improve their energy performance and environmental sustainability while ensuring the quality of service

Cogeneration of electrical and thermal energy by solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) technology is being considered in numerous lucrative applications like power generation, building thermal comfort, drying, refrigeration, air conditioning, desalination and industrial process heat. In view of its practicality and eco friendliness, solar PVT technology is receiving boundless attention among the researchers

Herein, an innovative slow-release fertilizers (SRFs) were developed using a bio-based and waterborne polymeric coating containing starch-g-poly (styrene-co-butylacrylate) latex reinforced with natural char nanoparticles (NCNPs). Several SRF samples were prepared via coating the urea granules with the latex formulations containing different amounts of NCNPs, and their urea release rates were evaluated

With rapid advances in digitalization, the application of digital technologies for supply chain and procurement processes have been advocated to facilitate revolutionary innovations in the built environment. Therefore, over the past decades, substantial research has been conducted on digital supply chain and procurement technologies (DCSP-technologies) in the built environment, resulting in a vast

While the deployment of technological innovation was able to avert a devastating global supply chain fallout arising from the impact of ravaging COronaVIrus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, little is known about potential environmental cost of such achievement. The aim of this paper is to identify the determinants of logistics performance and investigate its empirical linkages with economic and environmental

China's extensive and growing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are linked to rapid economic development and advancing urbanization, posing serious concerns in the context of climate change. Decomposition analysis has been widely performed to identify the drivers of China's CO2 emissions. However, to date, no researchers have examined the drivers of the change in CO2 emissions under the progress of urbanization

The swift development of integrated reporting as a genre within corporate reporting and the rapid spread of organizations adopting the International Integrated Reporting Council's (IIRC) vision for such shows that corporate voluntary reporting is now moving to a new stage. This provides an opportunity for companies to refine or reveal their hitherto hidden voluntary reporting philosophy by adapting

Nano molybdenum disulfide (Nano-MoS2) can be as a photocatalyst for antibiotic removal under visible light. However, the low energy of visible light and limited radicals restrict the applications of nano-MoS2. In this study, ceria dioxide (CeO2) rich in adsorbed oxygen was introduced into MoS2@Z (MoS2@Zeolite) to synthesize full-spectrum CeO2/MoS2@Z photocatalysts (CeO2/MoS2@Zs). The CeO2/MoS2@Z-3

The conventional geopolymer usually has bad wastewater treatment ability. How to maximum improve the wastewater treatment ability of geopolymer become a hot topic. The synergistic effects of iron (Fe) and biochar on the circulation fluidized bed combustion fly-ash and bottom ash-based geopolymer (BFBAG) in the removal of dyes and toxic heavy metals were investigated. The hydration numerical models

The goal of this research is to theoretically integrate the CE paradigm within the environmental sustainability framework. Based on the shortcomings detected in the circular economy literature, we followed a three steps procedure. Firstly, we conducted a narrative literature review that underlies the need of understanding the circular economy as a resilient, sustainable and circular economy, and we

This paper, firstly, investigates the relationship between clean energy and economic growth using satellite remote sensing data to proxy economic activities. Then, this paper constructs a spatial autoregressive model, spatial error model, and spatial Durbin model to study the spatial spillover effects of financial development and clean energy. Further, this paper adopts the difference-in-differences

Cost benefit analysis (CBA) and social impact assessment are well established methodologies to systematically estimate the viability of investments on technologies as well as the benefits for the society. However, there is a limited application of these assessment methods in the wastewater sector especially for resource recovery to deliver circularity objectives within urban water cycle management

The spatial mismatch between energy resources and water resources has been widely concerned. Electricity trade drives virtual water flows from electricity production sides to consumption sides, which can aggravate or alleviate regional water scarcity. Investigating the historical evolution of virtual water transmission and its impacts on water scarcity benefits the sustainable development of energy

A weighted human health risk evaluation methodology that integrated fuzzy-synthetic evaluation and chemical equilibrium simulation was proposed. The method was applied to study the potential toxicity and morphological characteristics of cadmium (Cd) species in groundwater. The concentrations and activities of 15 Cd (II) ion species were conducted by Visual MINTEQ for optimizing average daily dose through

After extraction of high-added value components of Spirulina sp., the remaining residues can be valorized by hydrothermal liquefaction to produce an oily water insoluble viscous phase (biocrude) which is very similar to petroleum bitumen. This hydrophobic fraction is composed of various N-,O-containing cyclic compounds, fatty acids, amides, nitriles, alkenes and alkanes. In order to optimize the rheological

The intensification of heat stress in a changing climate poses great threats to both human health and labor productivity. It is of great practical importance to assess the impacts of climate-induced heat stress on labor productivity and to develop effective adaptation strategies. In this paper, an integrated optimization-based productivity restoration modeling framework is proposed for the first time

In the context of the carbon neutral goal proposed by China, the Iron and Steel Industry (ISI) which is responsible for considerable carbon emissions has to take effective actions to emissions reduction. As Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) has been recognized as an important technical way to reduce industrial carbon emissions in recent years, its application in the ISI is still greatly

This study analyzed the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential and cost of urban road transportation policies from a boarder perspective including tank-to-wheel (TTW) and well-to-wheel (WTW) assessments, with Chongqing in China taken as the case city. Three policies and two mixed policies, including improving the fuel economy of passenger cars, promoting electric vehicles (EVs), and promoting natural

One of the main decisions that a car rental company has to make regards the definition of the fleet size and mix, i.e., the capacity to meet demand. This demand is highly unpredictable and price-sensitive; thus, the definition of the prices charged influences capacity decisions. Moreover, capacity decisions are also linked to other company strategies to meet demand, such as offering upgrades or transferring

Severe environmental issues such as excessive energy and water resources consumption and massive carbon emissions are becoming progressively prominent. Energy, water and carbon are also intrinsically linked and have become the critical indicators for sustainable development. Nexus analysis between the three resources has been increasingly emphasised, mainly using mathematical programming approaches

Water lubricated bearings have been named in literature as a sustainable alternative to their oil-based counterparts. In order to clarify when water lubricated bearings are or are not a sustainable alternative, and inform design decisions, an analytical design tool is introduced based on anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This model is based on data from the bearing geometries, materials, and

The aim of this study is to develop a multi-objective decision-making method, named Simultaneous Evaluation of Criteria and Alternatives (SECA) for optimal ranking of wastewater allocation alternatives. This multi-objective decision-making method is for the continuous environment, meaning that experts can choose the best solution among the solutions obtained. The SECA multi-objective non-linear programming

It is of great practical significance to explore the impact of trade on energy efficiency convergence for improving the overall energy efficiency, narrowing the energy efficiency gap and promoting the construction of a green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Given the large difference in economic development and resource endowment among BRI countries, this paper empirically explores the impact of import

Accurate air quality forecasting is critical for systematic pollution control as well as public health and wellness. Most of the traditional forecasting techniques have shown inconsistent predictive accuracy due to the non-linear, dynamic and complex nature of air pollutants. In the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods have become the most powerful and forward-looking approaches

The climate mitigation benefits of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) relative to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) are highly dependent on the carbon intensity of the electricity consumed during their production and use-phase. A consistent and dynamic approach to grid-mix regionalization of BEV life-cycle assessments in Europe is therefore necessary to offer accurate guidance to consumers

Hotspots of resource use in country and sector supply chains are poorly understood, due in part to the unitary nature of environmental footprinting assessment. Understanding the profile of country and sector resource dependencies across their entire supply chain is needed to inform their integrated management. Within this study pressures across the global water, energy and land (WEL) system are located

Solar roads are roads embedded with solar panels which can converting solar energy radiated on the road into storable electricity. Over the recent years, pioneering solar road prototypes were tested in different regions around the world. Driven by demand, road photovoltaic production calculation, based on street view images (SVI) has been proposed (Liu et al., 2019). However, in addition to the high

This work presents a novel integrated system for the multigeneration of power, space heating, freshwater, and ammonium bicarbonate as a useful chemical commodity with a geothermal-based carbon capturing system. A thermodynamic model based on energy and exergy analyses is developed for this integrated system. The results from the model show that the new carbon capturing unit that is based on an electrochemical

Increasing global energy demands requires a versatile approach, prompting many researchers to focus on renewable biofuel from sustainable resources, especially second-generation lignocellulosic biomass. The utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel production requires proper pre-treatment in biorefinery to increase the reaction rate in the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis step. Consequently

In order to reduce the plastic waste generated from the composite manufacturing process and improve the permeability of commercial breathers in high-pressure and high-temperature conditions, jute/polyester hybrid breathing materials were fabricated by the needle-punched method. The thermogravimetric analysis and the related thermal properties of hybrid breathing materials were carried out to verify

The European economy is surprisingly wasteful and continues to operate a take-make-dispose system. Addressing this challenge requires moving from a centralizing and top-down logic of waste management to territorial approaches integrating reuse and repair activities and involving local stakeholders. To do so, living labs are a relevant approach to support the transition towards territorial repair and

The economic risk of solar plant projects due to the inter-annual solar resource variability is usually quantified by the exceedance probabilities. The estimation of these probabilities depends on the datasets used for the study; actually, the uncertainty associated to these datasets affects the viability study of the project. Due to this dependence, in this work two different types of datasets are

Near-/supercritical water (N/SCW) is a green and excellent medium for extracting and upgrading heavy oil from oil-based drill cuttings (OBDC). In order to improve the quality of recovered oil, five typical industrial wastes were adopted as the costless addictives, namely municipal sewage sludge (MSS), zinc-rich electroplating sludge (Zn-EPS), nickel-rich electroplating sludge (Ni-EPS), red mud (RM)

The Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) framework is an emerging field in environmental research that aims at comparing the estimated environmental burden generated by a system on its life cycle to the carrying capacity that can be assigned to this system, i.e. the amount of impacts that it can cause without causing unacceptable impairment of ecosystem functional integrity. This

This study examined the impact of eco-brand, eco-label and social media on driving green consumption intention in ecotourism destinations. The mediating influence of motivation and the moderating impact of environment concern on all proposed relationships were also investigated. Data were collected by using a structured questionnaire survey at different eco-locations. The research uses the data from