With the fashion industry's negative impact already widely acknowledged, we've seen new ways of consuming and investing in the circular economy system. After establishing the importance of new technologies in today's fashion consumption, the spotlight is now on the role of e-commerce in the advent of circularity. This article presents a comparative...
How can the Global North oriented and welfare state rooted Sustainability Transitions theories be enriched with the Chinese and communist state rooted Ecological Civilization thinking that has been included in the Chinese constitution since 2007, to make it able to evaluate the making of the direct-controlled municipality Shanghai into an instituti...
The financial management of a business is an integral part of strategic management. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vulnerable to the presence of crisis events in the business environment. In this context, senior managers and owners need to react promptly to emerging changes in a given business segment. The aim of the article is to qu...
Recently, sustainable scheduling has emerged to make the trade-off between economic, environmental and social factors. While classical scheduling research focuses on economic and environmental indicators such as makespan and energy consumption, modern human-centred manufacturing systems consider additional important factors such as workers' well-be...
Published in Frontiers in Animal Science
This mini-review review examines the role of animal by-products (ABP), produced by the process known as rendering. It explains how the use of rendered products has evolved and changed over the last 50 years and how the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in the UK and the rest of Europe challenged the survival of the industry. The subse...
As a result of the development of cutting-edge technologies, the intensification of scientific research, the unprecedented influence of the mass media on the decision-making behavior of the consumer, the ratio between resources and needs, between availabilities and needs, ends up encountering multiple difficulties, and these make the production of ...
Published in Frontiers in Energy Research
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Introduction Natural disasters and the COVID-19 epidemic have caused serious consequences such as long-term disruption and chain reaction to the global supply chain. Global warming caused by a large number of greenhouse gases has accelerated the attention of society to environmental sustainability. Therefore, identifying the transmission path of th...
Published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Silk spinning, observed in spiders and insects, exhibits a remarkable biological source of inspiration for advanced polymer fabrications. Because of the systems design, silk spinning represents a holistic and circular approach to sustainable polymer fabrication, characterized by renewable resources, ambient and aqueous processing conditions, and fu...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
