Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches: Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications provides different trends and approaches within the sustainability framework to assess their impact and offer possible solutions to problems facing the global sustainability paradigm. This book evaluates sustainability assessment approaches which support different levels of both decision-making and policy processes, thereby improving the management of natural and human systems. This book explores sustainable firm solutions, the upward trend of sustainability, and its variants. At the same time, different existing approaches are analyzed. These sustainable assessment approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the Product-Service-System (PSS), Circular Economy (CE), Industrial Symbiosis (IS), and Supply Chain (SC). Finally, the book explores Sustainability Indicators (SIs), which are widely used to measure and communicate progress towards sustainable development, along with Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), balancing the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social and economic).
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Evolution and Trends of SustainabilityPart 1: Approaches to Sustainable Solutions
2. Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methods
3. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Concentrating Solar Power technologies: a comparison between solar tower power and solar thermal parabolic trough generations in Brazil
4. Exploring sustainable workforce management: Trends, solution approaches, and practices
5. The challenges of undertaking and innovating with sustainable socio-environmental impact businesses: analysis of narratives from socio-environmental entrepreneurs in southern Bahia
Part 2: Sustainable Operations Management
6. Maintenance in operational condition and obsolescence management in a sustainable operations management context
7. Circular economy strategies for improving furniture management in educational institutions.
8. A multiobjective maximal covering/p-dispersion model for reverse vending machine location
9. Closed-loop supply chain and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): a literature review
10. A bi-objective mixed integer non-linear programming model for the cell switch-off problem considering quality of service and energy consumption
11. Solving a routing problem with time windows for an Argentinian case study in solid waste management
Part 3: Sustainability and Technology
12. A knowledge roadmap for digitally enabled construction and building supply chain management: A sustainability perspective
13. A cyber-physical system for improving the sustainability of freight logistics industry: A case of developing nation
14. Decision Support Systems for Green Hydrogen Supply Chain Design: A Comparative Study of Literature and Real-World Tools
15. Digital Technologies for Fostering Sustainability in Industry 4.0
