Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

It is an imperative to find a proper way to maintain a balance between the economic development and natural environment's carrying capacity, which is needed for the wellbeing and sustenance of human as well as non-human world. Balancing the economic growth and environmental quality has always...

Industrial ecology (IE) intends to improve industrial processes in a way that the society benefits with as less damage of the environment as possible. As a concept it gives responses to environmental problems in the field of industry and technology and aims to enable management of human activity...

The environmental benefits from the eco-innovation activities of enterprises have the nature of reduced material or water use per unit of output, less pollution and waste, better CO2 "footprint" in production and subsequent business processes. The socioeconomic impacts are associated with...

By now, does not suffice to evaluate companies only from an economic point of view, but it is necessary to look at the business and the social and environmental context. Environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources is also reflected in the growth of interest in the area of...

Exploiting changes in China’s Environmental Protection Law in 2015 as a plausibly exogenous shock to the stringency of pollution control, we evaluate the role that state ownership plays in improving environmental quality. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we find a significant...