Thermodynamic and Technical Analysis for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability and sustainable development represent a present topic of investigation, with particular regards to their link to pollution, carbon dioxide emission and human well-being.

Sustainable development has been introduced in natural and environmental sciences, with the aim of attracting the interest of political and business stakeholders, in order to meet the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future ones.

Business activities play a fundamental role in the control of every stage of the value creation and production chain, and, consequently, of their impacts on the use of resources, and on the natural  environment, but, on the other hand, just business activities can represent one of the most powerful instruments to achieve sustainability.

In recent decades, research on sustainability has continuously been growing in number, with a great variety of interest: they are multidisciplinary topics of investigation.

In relation to sustainability, the air, water and soil pollution represents an actual problem of industrialized societies. So, this Special Issue wishes to focus on the fundamental topics of sustainability (environment, economy and society), with particular regards to the thermodynamic analysis of the biofuels and bioplastics production, in order to respond to the previous problems of pollution.

Prof. Dr. Umberto Lucia
Prof. Dr. Debora Fino
Dr. Giulia Grisolia
Guest Editors

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