Circular Economy and Environmental Analytics: Insights for Designing Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
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Interests: operations and environmental sustainability; operations and supply chain management; information systems and management; business and environmental analytics
Interests: green information technology; management information systems; information management; management education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of the circular economy (CE) in relation to operations and supply chain management has grown in importance over the past ten decades. CE is an emerging multidisciplinary paradigm in operations and supply chain management, where it emphasises a circular approach to energy and materials conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction for leveraging the benefits of the ‘triple bottom line’. As applied to businesses, CE attempts to add superior value while balancing the prospects for a nation’s economic growth that can be beneficial for both the environment and society.
In modern operations and supply chains, environmental analytics is a potent instrument that can be used to make critical decisions and develop sustainability strategies for underpinning the implementation of CE. Supply chain managers can reduce the negative impacts of various supply-chain activities while increasing the resource efficiency and profitability of operations facilities in different parts of a supply chain from upstream suppliers, manufacturers, distributors/distribution centres, retailers, warehouses, and transportation to product end-of-life (e.g., landfill, incineration, recycling, or upcycling).
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable strategy and analytics;
- Sustainability and supply chain management;
- Responsible strategy and analytics;
- Socio-technological transitions;
- Sustainable strategy and climate finance;
- ESG and sustainable strategy;
- Sustainability and global value chain governance;
- Life-cycle assessment (LCA) and circular economy (CE);
- Impact of climate change and natural hazards on supply chains.
We are particularly interested in research that is relevant to our fundamental themes of environmental sustainability, responsible leadership, and technological transformation in the operations and supply chain context.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Stuart So
Prof. Dr. Kevin K.W. Ho
Dr. Dickson Chiu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable operations and supply chains
- circular economy
- environmental analytics
- waste management and minimization
- recycling
- upcycling
- remanufacturing
