Biocatalytic remediation of industrial pollutants for environmental sustainability: Research needs and opportunities

Chemosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 272 ◽  
pp. 129936
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Kumar Pandey ◽  
Vivek K. Gaur ◽  
Aswathy Udayan ◽  
Sunita Varjani ◽  
Sang-Hyoun Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Industrial Pollutants ◽  
Sustainability Research

scholarly journals Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 894 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Department Faculty

Abstract The International Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Context (ICoESCo) 2021 is the first international conference hosted by Environmental Sustainability Research Group (EnSi-RG) and co-hosted by Environmental Research Center, Lembaga Penelitian Universitas Trisakti, Environmental Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, and Kitakyushu Indonesian Students’ Union. This conference was successfully held on August 24, 2021 which brings the theme of “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Environmental Sustainability” since the theme of “sustainability” has become the most crucial issue of the world by now. This conference was attended by 81 participants that came from 34 universities across the world which include as follows. List of ICOESCO 2021 Committees are available in this pdf.

scholarly journals Scientific Literature Analysis on Sustainability with the Implication of Open Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Alejandro Cano ◽  
Abraham Londoño-Pineda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Publication Rate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
General Statistical ◽  
Number Of Publications

Studies related to sustainability have been performed extensively around the world to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impact of practices that meet the current and future needs of society. Based on the Scopus database, this study presents a bibliometric analysis for the long, medium, and short term to represent the characteristics of publications related to sustainability, identify research trends and thematic areas with a promising future in research. The analysis covers the following topics: general statistical description, most addressed thematic areas in sustainability, the geographical distribution of sustainability publications, and most influential and cited journals, authors, and articles. The results show sustainability prevails in areas like Engineering, Energy, Environmental Science, and Business, Management, and Accounting, and the publication rate in this field has increased exponentially in the last 10 years. This study also shows that the most productive journals in sustainability research are Sustainability Switzerland and Journal of Cleaner Production, focusing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics. Likewise, the critical issues of sustainability research are related to sustainable development, humans, environmental sustainability, climate change, decision-making, and environmental impact. As sustainability with open innovation represents a topic with an increasing number of publications, future research can be oriented toward this topic.

scholarly journals Environmental Sustainability in Higher Education: Mapping the Field

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Francisco Miranda ◽  
Jorge Oswaldo Sánchez Buitrago ◽  
Javier de Jesús Viloria Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
The University

A considerable amount of literature has been published on environmental sustainability in the context of higher education. However, no previous studies have investigated how environmental sustainability has evolved in the university context and little is known about the specific research trends in this field. In that sense, the main purpose of this study is to identify the most influential topics in university environmental sustainability research and the relationships between them. To that end, we conducted a keyword co-occurrence analysis of scientific articles published between 1989 and 2019. We were able to identify 23 core keywords. We then designed a map of associations between the terms, representing the relationships between them in thematic clusters. We found at least three major areas supporting environmental sustainability research in universities: environmental education, environmental sustainability integration, and environmental protection. Each research area is analyzed and discussed.

scholarly journals A collective alternative to the Inward Turn in environmental sustainability research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad S. Boda ◽  
David O’Byrne ◽  
David Harnesk ◽  
Turaj Faran ◽  
Ellinor Isgren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

AbstractIt has become quite common in environmental sustainability research to promote the influencing of so-called inner dimensions of individuals as means to address pressing environmental problems such as climate change, what we refer to as the Inward Turn. We argue that the conceptual foundations of the Inward Turn, an extreme form of methodological individualism, limit it significantly as a strategy for addressing climate change and other socially relevant environmental problems. After briefly reviewing major shortcomings with the way the Inward Turn conceptualizes the relationship between individuals and social change, including its neglect of causal structures and propensity to abstract its analysis away from problems that are specific to place and time, we sketch the basic tenets of an alternative methodological approach capable of overcoming these limitations. Our approach, however, does not go to the other extreme and neglect the role of individuals; rather, our recognition of the structural drivers of particular environmental problems points to the necessity of specific collective actions by individuals, for example, in the practice of social movements. This recognition demands a rethinking of the role of individual factors, like emotion and empathy, in addressing environmental sustainability problems, namely as they relate to collective action/social movement emergence, development, and outcomes.

Environmental Sustainability: Research Growth and Trends

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feybi Ariani Goni ◽  
Syaimak Abdul Shukor ◽  
Muriati Mukhtar ◽  
Shahnorbanun Sahran
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Research

scholarly journals Using Q-methodology in environmental sustainability research: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 106864
Author(s):  
Gretchen Sneegas ◽  
Sydney Beckner ◽  
Christian Brannstrom ◽  
Wendy Jepson ◽  
Kyungsun Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Sustainability Research

scholarly journals More Than One Way to Float Your Boat: Product Use and Sustainability Impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Martin ◽  
Anu A. Harju ◽  
Emma Salminen ◽  
Bianca Koroschetz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Product Choice ◽  
Product Use ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Consumer Culture Theory ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Concern for sustainability crosses multiple areas of scholarly inquiry. At the macro level, sustainability research has focused primarily on institutional actors and systemic change efforts. At the consumer level, sustainability research has focused primarily on consumer product choice and post-use disposal. Employing a practice theory lens, this study examines how consumer practices during product use results in a wide variance in overall environmental sustainability impacts. Emerging practice configurations illustrate the ways rules as meaning, at both the macro level institutional regulations and micro level of cultural expectations shape consumer options. Practice configurations also illuminate the ways material marketplace resources, both stagnated products and innovations, provide opportunity for variance. Finally, the competence element of practice varies between a traditional consumer culture ethos and new practices vis-a-vis consumer resourcefulness. This study provides a contribution to the link between macromarketing and consumer culture theory in the centrality of enforcement of both governmental level regulations and consumer best practices for improved environmental sustainability.

Environmental Sustainability in and of Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Dilchert ◽  
Deniz S. Ones
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
International Research ◽  
Meaningful Difference ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Sustainability Research

We note that the current intellectual, social, and economic milieu has led to general acceptance of environmental sustainability as one of the most important issues of our time. Environmental sustainability is a “big idea,” and it is “in the air” (Gladwell, 2008). Few industrial–organizational (I–O) psychologists disagree. However, there are many different ideas on the what, where, and how our field can contribute. We review facilitators, drivers, and barriers to environmental sustainability of organizations. We also discuss the ways in which cultural and international research can strengthen sustainability research and practice. In order to make a meaningful difference and positive environmental impact, I–O psychologists and HR practitioners need to focus on their unique skills and influence organizational environmental sustainability by designing and shaping work, workplaces, and workforces.

scholarly journals Environmental sustainability and reshoring in the automotive industry: a multiple cases study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tim Becker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Tier 1 ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Automotive Suppliers

Reshoring – the reversal of offshoring strategies – referring to a firm’s decision to bring previously offshored manufacturing activities back or close to the home country has become a key theme in the industrial location literature. This thesis investigates the interdependence between reshoring, environmental sustainability and supply chain reconfiguration through a multiple case study in the automotive suppliers sector. The purpose is to explore the perception of environmental sustainability, to investigate reshoring decision-making and to analyse the need for supply chain reconfiguration in the context of environmental sustainability. Research is far from reaching an in-depth understanding of how reshoring decision-making takes place concerning environmental sustainability particularly in the automotive supplier sector. The thesis gathers qualitative data from 17 interviews with experienced managers from nine internationally-active, mainly Tier-1 automotive suppliers. The level of influence of environmental sustainability on reshoring decisions is not near to the top but on the rise. Issues such as cost and quality, efficiency of operations and qualified employees are more important than environmental sustainability to strengthen competitive advantage. The conventional idea of reshoring does not apply very well to Tier-1 automotive suppliers, since a key concern is bringing manufacturing sites closer to the OEM or to other suppliers in the supply chain regardless of the supplier’s home country. The findings from the study are used to develop models and frameworks of both reshoring and the relationship between reshoring and environmental sustainability. This contribution to knowledge is used to develop propositions for further research. The findings are linked to management theories such as Transaction Cost Economics and the Resource-Based View to deepen the contribution to theory. Some of the models and frameworks, such as the drivers and barriers for reshoring and environmental sustainability, together with the decision-making process and decision criteria for supply chain reconfiguration, have been developed so they can be used by practitioners to assist them with reshoring and supply chain management activities.

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