The sharing economy and its implications for sustainable value chains

Circular Economy is the solution for the current environmental crisis, representing a huge economic opportunity to build new sustainable businesses. However, many barriers need to be faced for its implementation at industrial scale—firstly, the lack of data sharing between the different stakeholders of product value-chains. The DigiPrime project is an EU-funded Innovation Action aimed at developing and demonstrating a digital platform with services able to unlock innovative cross-sectorial business models for the remanufacturing and recycling of target value-added products. In this paper, the concept behind the DigiPrime project is reported, with a particular focus on the construction sector.

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SUSTAINABILITY VALUE CHAIN IN BIOECONOMICS

Trakia Journal of Sciences ◽

10.15547/tjs.2020.s.01.098 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (Suppl.1) ◽

pp. 614-618

Author(s):

N. Penev ◽

Y. Andreev

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Renewable Resources ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Value Chains ◽

Processing Industry ◽

Cyclic System ◽

Microbiological Processes ◽

Sustainable Value ◽

Textile Industries ◽

Processed Products

The concept of bioeconomics covers all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, which supplies renewable resources: plants, animals, microorganisms and their processed products. The goal is a transition to an economy that is independent of fossil fuels and non-renewable resources. Agriculture and forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the conversion of biotechnological biomass and biological waste, are central to the multilateral new value chain. The processing industry uses renewable resources in various products, in particular, due to the industrial application of biotechnological and microbiological processes, especially in the chemical industry. This also applies to the food, woodworking, paper, construction, leather, and textile industries, as well as parts of the pharmaceutical and energy industries. Thus, the cyclic system and the storage of reusable waste are also included in the bioeconomic system. The aim of our study is to study the degree of development of sustainable value chains in bioeconomics.

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Partnerships for Sustainable Value Chains

Working with Smallholders: A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains ◽

10.1596/978-1-4648-1277-4_ch8 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 239-257

Author(s):

International Finance Corporation

Keyword(s):

Value Chains ◽

Sustainable Value

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Life Cycle Management and Sharing Economy

Customer Satisfaction and Sustainability Initiatives in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1419-1.ch008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152-166

Author(s):

Roberta Guglielmetti Mugion ◽

Gabriella Arcese ◽

Martina Toni ◽

Luca Silvestri

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Service Industry ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Life Cycle Management ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Management Tool ◽

Life Cycle Thinking ◽

Sustainable Value ◽

Definition Of

The life cycle sustainability assessment based on Life Cycle Thinking is currently considered the most crucial paradigm that includes three kinds of sustainability variables. Life cycle management (LCM) is the most holistic approach in promoting sustainable value creation, embedding the social, economic, and environmental dimensions as a management tool. LCM is mainly applied in the manufacturing and products chain, whereas it is understudied in the service industry. This chapter proposes the development of the LCM general framework and the definition of indicators for the assessment of sustainability in the urban shared mobility. The research framework has been tested in the transportation sector focusing on car sharing context.

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INSERTING SMALL HOLDERS INTO SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAINS

Handbook of Business Practices and Growth in Emerging Markets ◽

10.1142/9789812791788_0013 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 235-253

Author(s):

MARCOS FAVA NEVES ◽

LUCIANO THOMÉ E CASTRO

Keyword(s):

Value Chains ◽

Sustainable Value ◽

Small Holders

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The potential of sharing economy business models for sustainable value creation

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120004 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 253 ◽

pp. 120004 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Minttu Laukkanen ◽

Nina Tura

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Business Models ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Sustainable Value

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Phytoremediation Potential of Iris spp.

Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca Agriculture ◽

10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:2020.0046 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Ioana CRIȘAN ◽

Roxana VIDICAN ◽

Anca PLEȘA ◽

Tania MIHĂIESCU

Keyword(s):

Wastewater Treatment ◽

Toxic Metals ◽

Petroleum Hydrocarbons ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Green Technology ◽

Value Chains ◽

Mining Activities ◽

Traditional Use ◽

Sustainable Value ◽

History Of

Iris plants are widely cultivated flowering ornamentals, with a long history of traditional use in Eurasia, where this genus is reaching the highest diversity. This paper aims to provide an overview on recent advances related to the phytoremediation potential of plants from the genus Iris, in order to promote the use of these species in phytoremediation programs. According to the relevant literature, eight species from genus Iris present phytoremediation potential (I. dichotoma, I. germanica, I. halophila, I. lactea, I. latifolia, I. pseudacorus, I. sibirica, I. wilsonii). The studies addressed potential of plants to mitigate toxic metals/metalloids (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn), excess of nutrients (P, N), pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals as well as dyes. Most studies focused on wastewater treatment and environments contaminated due to mining activities. Main hindrances in upscaling this green technology remain mitigation of toxicity stress in plants during remediation and the disposal of resulting contaminated biomass. In this sense, use of beneficial microorganisms to alleviate phytotoxicity effects and new valorization possibilities of contaminated Iris spp. biomass have been proposed recently. Designing an entire cycle that includes phytoremediation and sustainable value chains for contaminated biomass could prove feasible and should receive more attention.

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Sustainable management of agriculture products value chain in responses to climate change for South-Eastern coast of Bangladesh

Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications ◽

10.1108/mscra-07-2020-0020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Prabal Barua ◽

Syed Hafizur Rahman ◽

Maitri Barua

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Value Chain ◽

Sustainable Management ◽

Value Chains ◽

Community Based ◽

Content Type ◽

Sustainable Value ◽

Agriculture Products ◽

Combat Climate Change ◽

Adaptation Options

PurposeThis paper is designed to assess the sustainable value chain approaches for marketing channel development opportunities for agricultural products in coastal Bangladesh to combat climate change through an approach of community-based adaptation options.Design/methodology/approachThe study was designed to select the potential value chain candidate and to analyze and establish a value chain map to benefit the crop farmers. In this connection, the resources of the whole context were evaluated. The approach uses few tools to generate three outputs, the last of which are the final list of value chains selected for in-depth assessment to design interventions as community-based adaptation practices of the study to combat climate change in the study areas.FindingsThe study demonstrated that the difference in the institutional circumstances of the end markets of the agriculture products is connected to the different categories of harmonization and control of the facilitating environment throughout the supply chains. National and local networks improve the value chain in terms of the value addition of the agriculture products, technology improvement, market access and profitability of the products. Strengthening the weak financial structure, focus more on formal financial systems and resolving sociocultural and climate change-induced hazard concerns are the major concerns on the development of value chains in the countries. Apparently, guarantee for good governance, checking illegal and unregulated market contexts, proper mitigation measures to climate change are some paramount important issues for the sustainable management of livelihood, yield, income and development.Practical implicationsAll kinds of stakeholders of the agriculture product value chain should focus on competitiveness and productivity and look for and exploit multiple ways to add value once initial success has been attained with a single deal. Ensuring sustainability within the value chains is an important feature to cater to the challenges and changing demands of the age.Originality/valueThe study will help to established a sustainable value chain approach in response to climate change, which process will help to existent opportunities for firms to manage the issue of climate risk by codeveloping and employing adaptation options that may be more preferred or accepted by consumers across the entire chain for the sustainable management of livelihood, yield, income and development.

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