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166 Citations
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31 January 2018

Industrial production plays an important role for achieving a green economy and the sustainable development goals. Therefore, the nascent transformation of industrial production due to digitalization into a so-called Industrial Internet of Things (II...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,239 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2021

Industrial design is intrinsically linked to manufacturing; however, what is required of industrial design to adapt to new changes brought on by Industry 4.0 in manufacturing is unknown. Current literature gives little insight into how industrial des...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
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  • Open Access
105 Citations
37,766 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2023

Industrial hemp is a versatile, sustainable plant with several applications of its various forms, including fiber obtained from hemp stalks, food obtained from hemp seeds, and oil obtained from hemp flowers and seeds. Industrial hemp has the potentia...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,730 Views
15 Pages

8 January 2020

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a systematic and collective (business) approach to optimizing the use of materials and energy among cross-sectoral industries in order to initiate and exhaust extended cascading systems; it is associated with (synergistic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Ecology and Innovation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,739 Views
16 Pages

The Entropy Model for Sustainability Assessment in Industrial Ecosystems

  • Tatyana Tolstykh,
  • Nadezhda Shmeleva,
  • Yulia Vertakova and
  • Vladimir Plotnikov

The aim of this paper is to address the gap in the academic literature towards the development of methodological approaches to the industrial ecosystem sustainability assessment. This study was focused on the industrial ecosystems formed based on an...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Design, Modeling and Computing Methods)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,988 Views
20 Pages

Empowering Industry 5.0: A Multicriteria Framework for Energy Sustainability in Industrial Companies

  • Simona Skėrė,
  • Paula Bastida-Molina,
  • Paulius Skėrys and
  • Pilar Molina-Palomares

20 August 2025

Industry 5.0 introduces a transformative vision for manufacturing by emphasizing human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience in tandem with advanced technologies. While Industry 4.0 focused on automation and connectivity, Industry 5.0 shifts the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,550 Views
27 Pages

Exploring Industrial Engineering Knowledge and Environmental Sustainability

  • Meelan Roopa,
  • Rajenlall Siriram and
  • Rojanette Coetzee

27 August 2024

This research identifies the relationship between industrial engineering and environmental sustainability knowledge components. A combination of a systematic literature review (SLR) and applied thematic analysis (ATA) is employed to uncover the perti...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,921 Views
13 Pages

In light of the constant increase in global temperatures, increasing risks associated with climate change, and stricter environmental policies, societies are at a crossroad where sound environmental decisions need to be taken. This is particularly ap...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,706 Views
16 Pages

Implementing Social Sustainability for Innovative Industrial Work Environments

  • Agneta Sundström,
  • Zahra Ahmadi and
  • Kristina Mickelsson

20 June 2019

Industrial companies are in a situation that requires them to reconsider their social sustainability agenda in order to attract new employees. Building upon interviews with CEOs and HR managers in 20 small medium enterprises (SMEs), this study aims t...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,299 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2023

Suppliers have evolved alongside industrial revolutions induced by their selection criteria for over two centuries. While sustainability has remained a pledge in their inter-creditor agreements, the claims of 11,000 scientists regarding the Earth&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Perspectives: Green Operations Management and Supply Chain)
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  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,139 Views
17 Pages

3 June 2020

The aim of this paper is to address the gap in the academic literature towards the development of methodological approaches to the industrial ecosystem potential assessment. This study is focused on the industrial ecosystems formed on the basis of a...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,345 Views
15 Pages

Sustainability Indicators for Industrial Organizations: Systematic Review of Literature

  • Alexandre André Feil,
  • Dusan Schreiber,
  • Claus Haetinger,
  • Virgílio José Strasburg and
  • Claudia Luisa Barkert

7 February 2019

In this study a systematic literature review was carried out to analyze the characteristics, indicators, limitations, benefits, and conclusions of scientific productions on industrial sustainability to propose a set of generic sustainability indicato...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,681 Views
24 Pages

31 October 2024

In high-density cities around the world, the contradiction of sustaining development and limited resources has become more evident. Transforming historic industrial buildings, through both functional and spatial adjustments, has emerged as a key stra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development in the Context of High-Density Urban Environment)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
27 Pages

1 April 2026

This study investigates the sustainability of competitiveness in the textile and apparel industry across Asia following the 2005 conclusion of the Agreement on Textiles and Apparel (ATC). It aims to evaluate how sectoral competitiveness is understood...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,947 Views
13 Pages

Adaptation of the Lean 6S Methodology in an Industrial Environment under Sustainability and Industry 4.0 Criteria

  • Mariano Jiménez,
  • Mª del Mar Espinosa,
  • Manuel Domínguez,
  • María Romero and
  • Tamar Awad

11 November 2021

Industry 4.0 paradigms have a positive influence on standard operating procedures, methodologies used in Lean Manufacturing techniques and management models with sustainability criteria. Interdependencies and correlations have been found between Lean...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Technology: The Lean 6S Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,086 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2017

Despite the efforts for sustainability studies in building and infrastructure construction, the sustainability issues in industrial construction remain understudied. Further, few studies evaluate sustainability and benchmark sustainability issues in...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,261 Views
23 Pages

5 November 2020

This research is a contribution to the sustainable assessment of industrial heritage. The study analyzes the sustainability of some industrial elements after the cessation of activity as well as their tourist definition. The research includes a bibli...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,321 Views
15 Pages

How May New Energy Investments Change the Sustainability of the Turkish Industrial Sector?

  • Hasan Yildizhan,
  • Cihan Yıldırım,
  • Shiva Gorjian and
  • Arman Ameen

16 January 2023

Utilization of renewable energy in the Turkish industrial sector is becoming more important nowadays. The tendency toward renewable energy can be clearly seen with newly planned energy investments. The energy appearance of the Turkish industrial sect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Effects Assessment of Clean Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,244 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2014

Despite the plethora of literature in sustainability and supply chain management in the recent years, a quantitative tool that measures the sustainability performance of an industrial supply network, considering the uncertainties of existing data, is...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
9,853 Views
21 Pages

10 September 2020

Our research addresses wine tourism as a means of enhancing the heritage and industrial memory of wine. Specifically, it considers winery tours as a form of industrial tourism capable of boosting the sustainable development of winemaking territories....

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,472 Views
47 Pages

16 March 2025

Circular economic strategies have been widely deployed across the world to decouple industrial–urban growth from resource use and carbon emissions, aiming to mitigate environmental degradation. Despite these efforts, the global circularity gap...

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47 Citations
13,240 Views
27 Pages

15 October 2020

(1) Background: The article provides a methodologically coherent analysis of technological development in the context of the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 and its impact on changes in sustainable development policy. (2) Methods: Using...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Integrated Clean Environment for Human & Nature)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,600 Views
20 Pages

28 January 2025

Industrial heritage tourism has been subject to increasing visitor interest, making Europe’s old factories, mines, and steelworks into attractive tourist installations. However, these facilities, like all other market players, impact the enviro...

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  • Open Access
961 Views
22 Pages

The Brewing Industry as Cultural and Industrial Heritage in Spain: Digital Sustainability and CSR Disclosure

  • María Pache-Durán,
  • Triana Arias-Abelaira,
  • Iris Salgado-Valverde and
  • Ángel Sabino Mirón-Sanguino

This study examines the extent to which Spanish brewing companies disclose sustainability- and CSR-related information through their corporate websites, interpreting such communication as a sustainability-oriented disclosure practice that may symboli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heritage and Sustainability: Keys to the Management and Valorization of Natural Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,242 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2021

As small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have limited resources, they need a manageable number of indicators that are simple and easy to use for measuring sustainability performance. However, the lack of suitable indicators tailored to industry needs,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,827 Views
26 Pages

28 July 2023

The data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China are selected as research samples from 2005 to 2021, using the panel data of listed companies. The empirical study examines the impact of regional industrial agglomeration levels on enterprise innovat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business, Innovation, and Economics Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,080 Views
19 Pages

The Nexus between Industrial Parks and the Sustainability of Small and Medium-Scaled Ventures

  • Robert O. Ngwu,
  • Vincent A. Onodugo,
  • Francis E. Monyei,
  • Wilfred I. Ukpere,
  • Phina N. Onyekwelu and
  • Uche Gerald Mmamel

14 June 2023

Investigations on industrial parks appear to be slim with inadequate statistical data in spite of their growing connectedness with sustainability and the importance of their establishment. They were required to curb the overarching challenges of smal...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
174 Citations
14,076 Views
16 Pages

A Value Function for Assessing Sustainability: Application to Industrial Buildings

  • Bibiana Alarcon,
  • Antonio Aguado,
  • Resmundo Manga and
  • Alejandro Josa

24 December 2010

Decision support tools based on multi-attribute analysis involve the use of different types of variables. These variables are aimed at providing a framework that allows preferences to be quantified. This is particularly useful in the field of sustain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Building)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,091 Views
26 Pages

Since 2001, a new development paradigm, not only in EU countries but also at the global level, has been the concept of balancing environmental, social and economic factors, known as sustainable development. Over the two decades of the new millennium,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New European Bauhaus (NEB) in Architecture, Construction and Urbanism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,879 Views
14 Pages

Due to the demand by stakeholder groups of global public corporations for greater transparency in business operations, corporations have continuously tried to embody the concept of sustainability in their business strategies and operations. That is,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,212 Views
19 Pages

An Overview of Energy and Exergy Analysis to the Industrial Sector, a Contribution to Sustainability

  • Raúl Arango-Miranda,
  • Robert Hausler,
  • Rabindranarth Romero-López,
  • Mathias Glaus and
  • Sara Patricia Ibarra-Zavaleta

10 January 2018

Globally, industry remains one of the main consumers of fossil fuels; hence, it is one of the prime sources of greenhouse gases (GHG). Exergy analysis methods can be applied to detect the processes inefficiencies. To enhance the interconnection of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,533 Views
27 Pages

21 January 2021

The transformation of mining and industrial spaces into tourist spaces is part of the debate surrounding the profound changes in the contemporary economies of developed European countries. The loss of competitive power of their traditional companies,...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,688 Views
20 Pages

The Complex Approach to Environmental and Technological Project Management to Enhance the Sustainability of Industrial Systems

  • Leyla Gamidullaeva,
  • Nadezhda Shmeleva,
  • Tatyana Tolstykh,
  • Tatiana Guseva and
  • Svetlana Panova

20 July 2024

To achieve sustainability, industrial systems need to be modernized to improve resource efficiency while optimizing environmental and social performance. The implementation of environmental and technological projects is a complex management process a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability, Complexity and Resilience: Insights from Complex Systems Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,464 Views
21 Pages

21 January 2023

Significant differences exist between the sustainability practices of large businesses and those of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial sector. Small- and medium-sized enterprises have restricted access to capital, resources, and ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Industry Seen from the Perspective of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
537 Views
17 Pages

3 April 2026

Industrial sustainability is commonly evaluated through environmental impact, resource consumption, and operational resilience indicators. These metrics describe system performance but do not define whether production remains within human physiologic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Manufacturing Engineering for Improving Product Quality and Optimization of Industrial Processes)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,845 Views
26 Pages

A Risk Management Framework to Enhance Environmental Sustainability in Industrial Symbiosis Ecosystems

  • Lucía Ventura,
  • Ignacio Martín-Jimenez and
  • Marcelino Gallego-Garcia

15 March 2025

Industrial symbiosis (IS) fosters collaboration between industries to exchange materials, energy, water, and by-products. It contributes to environmental and economic sustainability by reducing resource consumption, decreasing greenhouse gas emission...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
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  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,689 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2024

This study investigates integrating circular economy principles—such as closed-loop systems and economic decoupling—into industrial sectors, including refining, clean energy, and electric vehicles. The primary objective is to quantify the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Use, Storage and Emission Analysis for Industrial Decarbonization)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,342 Views
27 Pages

18 April 2023

This study aims to determine the necessary parameters to ensure sustainable conservation in the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage and create a decision-making model. This study included the selection of the sample industrial heritage, determining...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Conservation of Cultural Heritage: An Open Challenge)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,571 Views
26 Pages

Assessing Industrial Impact on Water Sustainability in El Bajío, Guanajuato State, Mexico

  • Horacio Flores Casamayor,
  • Jorge Luis Morales Martínez,
  • Jesús Mora-Rodríguez and
  • Xitlali Delgado-Galván

30 May 2021

Five municipalities in El Bajío present the highest industrial investments: Celaya, Irapuato, León, Salamanca, and Silao. Public and private investments, further to the support received from the government, have been decisive to industrialize the zon...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,578 Views
24 Pages

24 April 2021

This study investigates the sustainable values of cafes established using idle industrial facilities that are a part of the cultural heritage of South Korea in terms of the characteristics of the architectural space and consumers’ space utilization....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Reuse Processes: Bridging the Gap between Memory and New Values)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,560 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2023

Industrial agglomeration in a region changes the economic structure, strategic layout and resource status of a city, and has an important impact on sustainable economic development. The relationship between industrial agglomeration, air pollution and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Pollution and Environmental Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,017 Views
23 Pages

25 February 2025

In the context of land scarcity and high-density urban areas, the adaptive reuse of abandoned historical industrial buildings plays a critical role in achieving sustainable development goals. This study proposes a sustainability assessment framework...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Sustainability: Sustainable Housing and Communities)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,056 Views
26 Pages

Urban Industrial Tourism: Cultural Sustainability as a Tool for Confronting Overtourism—Cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen

  • Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt,
  • Antonio Palacios-García,
  • Diego Barrado-Timón and
  • José Antonio Rodríguez-Esteban

22 April 2021

The chief objective of this research was to analyze how the industrial heritage of three European capitals—Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen—has been integrated into the dynamics of their urban tourism, thereby generating new resources and cultural sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,596 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2019

Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,001 Views
16 Pages

24 November 2018

Enormous development of technology over the past two centuries has been associated with a considerable drawdown of non-renewable raw materials and an increase in the amount of harmful emissions. Thus, building direction in the field of construction i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction and Building Materials)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,048 Views
46 Pages

Assessing the Outcomes of Digital Transformation Smartization Projects in Industrial Enterprises: A Model for Enabling Sustainability

  • Iryna Bashynska,
  • Sabit Mukhamejanuly,
  • Yuliia Malynovska,
  • Maryana Bortnikova,
  • Mariia Saiensus and
  • Yuriy Malynovskyy

22 September 2023

Digital transformation and smartization projects in industrial enterprises have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, aiming to enhance operational efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. Assessing the outcomes of such projects is cruc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation Enabling Sustainability in Strategic Management of Enterprise)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,195 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2017

This paper takes a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) perspective to integrate important aspects of social inequality into Socio-Ecological Metabolism (SEM) research. SEM has dealt with biophysical features of pre-industrial agricultural sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Ecology. State of the Art and Future Prospects)
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  • Open Access
548 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2026

The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) introduces significant implications for sustainable trade and industrial decarbonization for non-EU industrial exporters. As a major cement supplier to the EU, Turkey faces key econ...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
610 Views
30 Pages

12 July 2026

Higher education programs are increasingly expected to show not only where sustainability appears in the curriculum, but also how it is sequenced, assessed and monitored. This study develops and applies a document-based curriculum audit for tracing d...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,566 Views
21 Pages

Proposal for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Management Model (MGI) for Agro-Industrial Leather Chain

  • Luis Horacio Botero Montoya,
  • Nolberto Gutiérrez,
  • Adriana Zuluaga,
  • Luis Fernando Gutiérrez,
  • José Orlando Gómez,
  • Gina Lía Orozco and
  • Jhon Wilder Zartha

17 October 2024

This article presents the results of a study focused on collaboratively developing an Innovation Management Model (MGI) for the leather agro-industrial chain in Colombia. This study integrates the participation of interested parties, the prioritizati...

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