This study posits that technology actors and stakeholders hold different intentions for sustainability interests. This dissimilarity between sustainability intentions determines the strategic choice of materiality setting adopted when disclosing non-standardized (i.e. non-financial) data to the...

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether technology can lessen the problem of scarce natural resources. We focus on fossil and biomass materials as important resources for production and consumption. Utilizing a dynamic panel...

The relevance of efficient direct material input through both export market and domestic material sources offers useful material and resource productivity guidelines from both economic and environmental sustainability dimensions. In the current context, the drivers of material and resource...

Circular economy (CE) is a new trend in balanced development, directed at limiting consumption of resources and minimising waste production. In consideration of the European Commission’s (EC) postulates of the CE implementation, the article aims at verifying whether coal power plants in...

Der Übergang des derzeitigen, auf nicht erneuerbaren Rohstoffen basierenden Wirtschaftssystems zu einem nachhaltigeren System, in dem erneuerbare Ressourcen genutzt werden, ist ein zentrales Ziel der Deutschen Bioökonomiestrategie. Um belastbare Informationen zur Entwicklung der Bioökonomie...

The definition and the subsequent development of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have been deeply based on the application of industrial ecology theory, which pays specific attention to metabolic exchanges within industrial processes to address a deep reduction of limited resource consumption and a...