Cleaner Production (CP) is a preventive environmental management approach aimed at reducing pollution at source. Despite the success stories, the literature indicates barriers that hamper the implementation and dissemination of CP in companies. Among these barriers are the lacks of detailed and systematized information on practices that generate results and can be applied in CP implementation p...

Benchmarking cleaner production performance is an effective way of pollution control and emission reduction in coal-fired power industry. A benchmarking method using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis for coal-fired power plants is proposed – firstly, to improve the cleaner production performance of DEA-inefficient or weakly DEA-efficient plants, then to select the benchmark f...

Through the international (Convention) and European (Industrial Emissions Directive) legislations, industries have to apply preventive measures according to the Best Available Technique (BAT) concept or cleaner production (CP) strategies. Many technical solutions exist to conform, but the major stake is to assess the overall effect or impact of the implementation of a technique on the installat...

Sustainable development is a three-pronged attack on the future. It is shorthand for balancing economic progress, social equity and environmental quality to provide fulfilling lifestyles for the planet’s inhabitants, both now and in the future. Sustainable development has been progressively embraced by leading industries, national governments, international organisations and financial instituti...