Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, causing widespread damage to industry, housing, and infrastructure. The area of New Orleans East was particularly devastated, including a cluster of industries, such as a major foodprocessing plant, manufacturing facilities, and bulk material and gas processors. Although this area was well suited for resource recovery and eco-industrial ...

Harnessing digital innovations for healthcare delivery has raised high expectations as well as major concerns. Several countries across the globe have made progress in achieving three common goals of lower costs, higher quality, and increased patient access to healthcare services through investments in digital infrastructures. New technologies are leveraged to achieve widespread 24x7 disease ma...

Limiting global warming to no more than 2°C requires large-scale deployment of low-carbon and negative emissions technologies. This the development new eco-innovations diffusion existing ones. Existing portfolios environmental technology policy instruments, however, may not be up this task. In paper, we develop an evaluative framework for assessment instruments successful eco-innovations. Our c...

Abstract The transition toward a circular economy (CE) implies the introduction of innovative practices at firm level. Nevertheless, an important question is under discussion: What are consequences these on performance? Using survey approach, this article analyzes effect CE related to product design economic and environmental performance: life cycle assessment (LCA), upgradability, for disassem...

background: every year many organizations formulate a code of ethics (coe) but when it comes to implementing, it does not achieve the desired purposes. ineffectiveness of coes can stem from different factors and surely, one of them is bad formulation. this research was conducted to identify the barriers to effective formulation of coes in one of the main state universities of medical sciences i...