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Reducing food waste in households can be accomplished by changing several types of behavior (e.g., meal planning, food shopping, food storage, food preparation, leftover management) and by leveraging several sources of consumer motivation (financial, environmental, norm adherence). Interventions...

A circular economy is needed to revamp obsolete business practices and rethink consumption to create new sectors that can change from the present linear production-consumption paradigm to creative and innovative efforts to reuse intermediate and final goods. While organizations are building...

This study examines the annual CO2 emissions embodied in China's exports from 2002 to 2008 using environmental input–output analysis. Four driving forces, including emission intensity, economic production structure, export composition, and total export volume, are compared for their...

The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [1]. [...]