Corporate Environmental Management and Voluntary Actions to Pursue Competitiveness and to Support the Transition to a Circular Economy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 12015
Special Issue Editor
Interests: corporate environmental management; life cycle assessment; circular economy; industrial symbiosis; environmental certifications and labelling; sport sustainability management; climate change and decarbonization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Corporate environmental management and voluntary actions can trigger innovation in companies allowing to achieve competitive position thank to product or process innovations. More recently, voluntary instruments have been identified as key tools to support the transition toward a circular economy. Therefore, these instruments have fully confirmed their flexibility, ranging from tools to improve environmental management of single organisations to instruments to support the objectives set up by environmental policies.
This double perspective is the main focus of this Special Issue that aims to consolidate the knowledge about these instruments as tools to stimulate competitiveness and to support circular economy.
In the framework described above, this Special Issue invites authors to contribute in the following fields (non-exhaustive list):
- The role of EMAS in the transition to a circular economy and in the pursuing of organisations competitiveness;
- ISO14001 and other ISO voluntary standards
- Circular Green Public Procurement;
- Green corporate procurement toward circular economy;
- LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) as tools to improve the product “circularity” and competitiveness;
- Ecolabels & circular economy, ecolabels & competitiveness;
- Environmental Technology Verification experiences;
- Networking experiences to boost voluntary tools and circular economy;
- Voluntary environmental management initiatives in cluster of SMEs and Eco-industrial parks;
Qualitative and quantitative studies will be welcome as well as best practices and experiences descriptions.
Dr. Tiberio Daddi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- EMAS
- ISO14001
- circular economy
- competitiveness
- Ecolabel
- LCA
- Product Environmental Footprint
- GPP
