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).
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to—evolution and trends of sustainability - p. 1 2. Part 1: Approaches to sustainable solutions - p. 3 3. Chapter 2. Integrating life cycle sustainability assessment and multicriteria decision-making methods - p. 7 4. Chapter 3. Life cycle sustainability assessment of concentrating solar power technologies: A comparison between solar tower power and thermal parabolic trough generations in Brazil - p. 23 5. Chapter 4. Exploring sustainable workforce management: Trends, solution approaches, and practices - p. 39 6. Chapter 5. The challenges of undertaking and innovating with sustainable socio-environmental impact businesses: Analysis of narratives from socio-environmental entrepreneurs in southern Bahia - p. 59 7. Part 2: Sustainable operations management - p. 69 8. Chapter 6. Maintenance in operational condition and obsolescence management in a sustainable operations management context - p. 73 9. Chapter 7. Circular economy strategies for improving furniture management in educational institutions - p. 85 10. Chapter 8. A multiobjective maximal covering/p-dispersion model for reverse vending machine location - p. 111 11. Chapter 9. Closed-loop supply chain and extended producer responsibility (EPR): A literature review - p. 129 12. Chapter 10. Solving a routing problem with time windows for an Argentinian case study in solid waste management - p. 153 13. Chapter 11. A knowledge roadmap for digitally enabled sustainable construction and building supply chain management - p. 167 14. Part 3: Sustainability and technology - p. 187 15. Chapter 12. A cyber-physical system for improving the sustainability of freight logistics industry: A case of developing nation - p. 191 16. Chapter 13. Analysis of decision support systems for the green hydrogen value chain design: A comparison of literature and real-world tools - p. 209 17. Chapter 14. Digital technologies for fostering sustainability in Industry 4.0 - p. 227 18. Chapter 15. A biobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming model for the cell switch-off problem considering quality of service and energy consumption - p. 253 19. Index - p. 267
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).
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to—evolution and trends of sustainability - p. 1 2. Part 1: Approaches to sustainable solutions - p. 3 3. Chapter 2. Integrating life cycle sustainability assessment and multicriteria decision-making methods - p. 7 4. Chapter 3. Life cycle sustainability assessment of concentrating solar power technologies: A comparison between solar tower power and thermal parabolic trough generations in Brazil - p. 23 5. Chapter 4. Exploring sustainable workforce management: Trends, solution approaches, and practices - p. 39 6. Chapter 5. The challenges of undertaking and innovating with sustainable socio-environmental impact businesses: Analysis of narratives from socio-environmental entrepreneurs in southern Bahia - p. 59 7. Part 2: Sustainable operations management - p. 69 8. Chapter 6. Maintenance in operational condition and obsolescence management in a sustainable operations management context - p. 73 9. Chapter 7. Circular economy strategies for improving furniture management in educational institutions - p. 85 10. Chapter 8. A multiobjective maximal covering/p-dispersion model for reverse vending machine location - p. 111 11. Chapter 9. Closed-loop supply chain and extended producer responsibility (EPR): A literature review - p. 129 12. Chapter 10. Solving a routing problem with time windows for an Argentinian case study in solid waste management - p. 153 13. Chapter 11. A knowledge roadmap for digitally enabled sustainable construction and building supply chain management - p. 167 14. Part 3: Sustainability and technology - p. 187 15. Chapter 12. A cyber-physical system for improving the sustainability of freight logistics industry: A case of developing nation - p. 191 16. Chapter 13. Analysis of decision support systems for the green hydrogen value chain design: A comparison of literature and real-world tools - p. 209 17. Chapter 14. Digital technologies for fostering sustainability in Industry 4.0 - p. 227 18. Chapter 15. A biobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming model for the cell switch-off problem considering quality of service and energy consumption - p. 253 19. Index - p. 267
