Sustainable Energy: Circular Economy and Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 264
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Interests: visual management theory; lean thinking; operation and supply chain design; production science
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Dear Colleagues,
The challenge to circularize the human society that people have created over a long history may be the fate of human beings, who are embedded as one animal in the natural ecosystem. However, the economic system based on mass production and mass consumption continues to expand despite such a challenge. Is a circular human society merely an ideal that cannot be realized? Or is it a goal that will come true someday and that should be realized? This special session hopefully aims to widely discuss the philosophy, systems, and practical methodologies to approach to circularize the way that support the real human society, like supply chains in local and global areas, and the consumption dynamics of the various energies used in supply chains.
Prof. Dr. Koichi Murata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- circular supply chain strategy/methodology
- analysis and evaluation to realize circular economy/supply chain
- performance measurement/management to circular economy/supply chain
- philosophy for circular economy and supply chain
- circular energy dynamic model and practical methodology
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