What is Sustainable Manufacturing? Implementing sustainable manufacturing across U.S. production facilities is becoming increasingly important and critical for competitive global manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing is a topic that has gained national and international awareness, and therefore it is important to understand its core meaning. Although the definition of “sustainable manufactur...

Both knowledge economy and sustainable development are considered key dimensions in the policy action lines of many developed and developing countries. In this context, universities and other higher education institutes have a vital role in developing and sustaining wellbeing communities. In this paper, the authors’ aim is to address the links between the concepts of innovation and entrepreneur...

Using the Natural Resource Based View (NRBV) as our theoretical lens, green IS or sustainable IS is conceptualized as comprising the different dimensions of sustainability practices that can create competitive advantage for the organization. This study examines (i) the impact of adoption of sustainable IS on organizational performance; and (ii) the impact of the extent of adoption of sustainabl...

This paper presents, as a 'sustainable world typology', the findings of a current research project that is concerned with what it means for there to be a sustainable world and how humanity might go about achieving this. The typology is framed around key sustainable world dimensions and displays, for each of these dimensions, how Reformist and Transformational approaches are conceived in terms o...

There are many legislative, stakeholder and supply chain pressures on business to be more „sustainable‟. Universities have recognised the need for graduate knowledge and understanding of sustainable development issues. Many businesses and universities have responded and introduced Sustainable Development models into their operations with much of the current effort directed at climate change. Ho...

Hannu Larsson (2014): Sustainable eGovernance. Örebro Studies in Informatics 7. This thesis focuses on eGovernance – the use of ICT as a means to improve public sector practice. Previous research has shown that there is a lack of long-term discussion on the purposes and directions of eGovernance development, often outlining it as unequivocally positive, while missing to consider the complexitie...

This focused collection of papers is devoted to recent developments in ‘green chemistry’, especially the applications of catalytic methods, involving both chemoand biocatalysis. The development of catalytic processes is an important current theme in organic chemistry, since it aims to reduce the environmental impact of the industrial synthesis of chemicals and polymers by replacing stoichiometr...

In order to determine the sustainable supporting capacity of current Kiamusze water utilization situation to future society and economy, a dynamic simulation model of water resources sustainable utilization was built based on system dynamics (SD). The simulation results indicated that current Kiamusze water resources could not satisfy future demand of industrial and agricultural production and ...

While Product Service Systems (PSS) are not inherently sustainable, they may form part of the mix of innovations that contribute to the development of more sustainable futures. However, whether the current trajectory of PSS research, with its emphasis on universal frameworks and standardization adequately reflects and builds upon PSS diversity revealed by case study research may be questioned. ...

Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge city drainage infrastructure due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the environment of urban areas. Sustainable drainage systems have gained growing public interest in recent years, as a result of its positive effects on water quality and quantity issues and additional recreational amenities perceived in the urban l...