Green Transition and Waste Management in the Digital Era: Strategies, Learnings, Challenges and Future Trends
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2169
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue entitled “Green Transition and Waste Management in the Digital Era: Strategies, Learnings, Challenges and Future Trends”.
These days, there is an urgent interest in our society and business to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, another challenge to transform the world to be more sustainable for the current and future generations is the European Union's strategy to be climate-neutral by 2050 through an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. In order to attend to these complex challenges, green transition and waste management strategies play an essential role.
However, although some developed countries have been leading the implementation of pragmatic actions in the short-, medium- and long-term to address these challenges, several countries worldwide are facing several difficulties and challenges. Therefore, it is the appropriate moment to examine the current strategies that have been successfully implemented around the world, and the lessons generated from these practical implementations to benchmark other countries and companies. This sharing of learnings and strategies can potentially contribute to cross-fertilizing and accelerating the dissemination of green transition and waste management strategies in several contexts. This Special Issue attempts to extend the current empirical literature on green transition and waste management strategies.
The key objectives of this Special Issue are the following: (1) to identify a comprehensive body of empirical-oriented knowledge to support the implementation of green transition and waste management strategies in different contexts, (2) to identify the essential empirical-oriented learnings and the key challenges that countries and companies can face while implementing green transition and waste management strategies and how these challenges can be overcome or minimized, and (3) to understand the main future trends for achieving a sustainable world through green transition and waste management strategies.
To address the objectives of this call, we invite scholars, practitioners, policymakers and other agents working on green transition and waste management to submit original studies based on case studies, action research papers, design science research and intervention-based papers providing empirical insights into the theme. Moreover, this Special Issue welcomes comprehensive systematic literature reviews employing rigorous protocols and meta-analyses studies able to discover empirical insights and knowledge that meet the three objectives of this call.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Best practices and lessons learned for green transition and waste management realization.
- Applications, effects and strategies when applying cutting-edge Industry 4.0 technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things, Additive Manufacturing, Machine Learning, Blockchain, among others) supporting green transition and waste management realization.
- Waste management and waste valorization methods, practices and strategies.
- Strategies and methods for the successful green transition.
- Circular economy for green transition and waste management.
- Barriers and challenges for green transition and waste management realization.
- The role of cyber–physical systems for green transition and waste management systems.
- Implementing green transition and waste management through production systems and supply chains.
- Green transition and waste management in developed and developing economies.
- Re-manufacturing for green transition and waste management.
- The role of international standards (e.g., ISO 14000 family standards, BS 8001, ISO 22526, among others).
- Future trends and further developments for green transition and waste management.
- Other related topics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Diego Augusto De Jesus Pacheco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- waste management
- green transition
- circular economy
- green operations
- green supply chains
