A Prerequisite for Sustainability: Financial Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

A huge number of environmentally friendly measures have been proposed and published in recent decades. However, the vast majority of them have not had even the slightest chance to succeed in commercial practice. We believe that we can easier proceed with a circular (bio)economy  provided that the processes are designed to generate competitive products.

The main target of this Special Issue is to promote sustainable concepts that do not ignore the economic, political or legal reality and have realistic ambitions of becoming profitable. We postulate that both sustainability and profitability are key features to be addressed together while designing successful and ethically responsible business. Inspiring proposals, results from lab-scale or pilot plants, and accomplished projects are welcomed to be presented in this Special Issue. They may include (but are not limited to) social research, new analytical techniques, innovation and digitalization, social behavior, economic sociology, digital business, inspiring business concepts, public and nonprofit management, techno-economic assessments, urban and regional research, innovation management, novel techniques econometrics, and process designs. Innovative and economically reasonable solutions in recycling, regeneration, (bio)rafination and reuse of organic matter, nutrients, biowaste, plastic, paper, glass, metals, building materials, foodwaste and other waste are particularly welcomed.

Please ensure your manuscript contains:

1. A title that shortly describes your key discovery;
2. An introduction so anybody who reads this chapter can fully understand (all the complexity, abbreviations, symbols and terminology must be explained) the urgency to investigate your research hypothesis;
3. Materials and methods to allow replication of your procedures while obtaining the same results;
4. A results and discussion section that critically discuss all the limitations and reveals new mechanisms;
5. Conclusions that represent your original theoretical findings.

Prof. Josef Marousek
Dr. Otakar Strunecký
Guest Editors

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