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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,047 Views
20 Pages

Improving the green technology innovation capability of enterprises is an important way for industrial enterprises to improve product quality and production efficiency and reduce industrial pollution and energy consumption. Based on the Porter hypoth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,129 Views
17 Pages

4 April 2024

Environmental degradation is an important issue facing the world today. Microcosmically, green technical innovation is needed to decrease environmental pollution. Therefore, exploring the relationship between the two is of great significance for prom...

  • Article
  • Open Access

15 January 2026

This study examines whether environmental assurance and environmental management certifications are associated with subsequent environmental performance and reputational exposure in European Union listed firms. Using Refinitiv Eikon panel data for 44...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,842 Views
27 Pages

10 September 2020

Over the past decade, enterprises have sought to minimize their ecological footprints through cleaner production strategies. Evidence can be gathered to support either the view that adopting environmental management standards (EMS) is a cost burden o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,151 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2022

Credence or believability are paramount values in trade. The role of products’ credence attributes has been well-analysed in the agricultural and food sector. This study examined the application of credence attributes to forest management and f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,251 Views
16 Pages

Combining Management, Education and Participation for the Transformation of Universities towards Sustainability: The Trébol Programme

  • Antonio Gomera,
  • Ana de Toro,
  • José Emilio Aguilar,
  • Clara Guijarro,
  • Miguel Antúnez and
  • Manuel Vaquero-Abellán

25 May 2021

This article presents the design and development of the ‘Trébol (Clover) Programme’, a tool which allows us to improve environmental sustainability in the university environment by reinforcing the education, awareness, and training of its members. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,746 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2019

Competitiveness in the hotel sector and its effect on the environment involves integrating environmental issues in hotel management. Current environmental challenges often require firms to cope with contradictory processes. Ambidexterity is a firm&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,946 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2020

Sustainability has long been a buzzword and is also currently one of the major priorities of tourism all over the world. In many places, hotels function as a driving force for socio-economic development, serving as employers for the local population,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,649 Views
11 Pages

28 December 2022

The circular economy (CE) has become an important issue within the European Union due to the Green Deal regulations. A CE makes sustainable development feasible by creating value in the economy and by closing the energy and materials loops. The aim o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,439 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2018

The purpose of this paper is the assessment of the ISO 14001:2015 transition process among Portuguese ISO 14001 certified organizations, including those that successfully have already achieved ISO 14001:2015 certification. A considerable number of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,817 Views
12 Pages

Hierarchical Analysis of Factors Determining the Impact of Forest Certification in Mexico

  • Emily García-Montiel,
  • Frederick Cubbage,
  • Alberto Rojo-Alboreca,
  • Miriam Mirelle Morones-Esquivel,
  • Concepción Lujan-Álvarez,
  • Eusebio Montiel-Antuna,
  • Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano,
  • Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez and
  • José Javier Corral-Rivas

8 December 2022

Forest certification is a private, voluntary and market-driven instrument designed to promote responsible forest management. This paper focused on the FSC and the NOM NMX-AA-143-SCFI-2008 schemes used in Mexico for the certification of sustainable fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,239 Views
17 Pages

14 July 2018

Forest certification as a voluntary verification tool has been providing an independent assessment of sustainable forestry practices and thus confidence in sustainability benchmarks for over 20 years. Using either the international or national approa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,847 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2017

Forest certification is a practice that has been consolidated worldwide in recent years as a result of certification often being associated with sustainability. However, there is not much research available on the perception of stakeholders and exper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,790 Views
29 Pages

16 August 2024

The literature has reached a consensus that ISO standardization enhances the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance of companies, which in turn has a positive effect on corporate financial performance (CFP). There is less understandi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,247 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2021

Certification provides a way to demonstrate the positive impacts of sustainable forest management (SFM) on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services provide society with a wide range of benefits, from clean water and carbon sequestration to the producti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
15,676 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2010

Forest sustainability and forest certification are important natural resource management and environmental issues. Forest certification addresses the social and environmental issues in the acquisition of raw materials (e.g., lumber to be used in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,382 Views
12 Pages

29 March 2018

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council (SGEC) are deployed as forest certification schemes in Japan. This study aimed to identify the reasons that enterprises choose the FSC or the SGEC scheme and the effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,865 Views
24 Pages

Contribution of Forest Stewardship Council Certification to Sustainable Forest Management of State Forests in Selected Southeast European Countries

  • Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh,
  • Dženan Bećirović,
  • Bruno Marić,
  • Jelena Nedeljković,
  • Stjepan Posavec,
  • Nenad Petrović and
  • Mersudin Avdibegović

1 August 2019

In recent decades, the concept of forest certification under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been widely adopted in selected Southeast European countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia). As sustainability is tradition...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
24,161 Views
31 Pages

16 January 2025

Hotel certifications have become increasingly vital in promoting sustainability within the hospitality industry, providing frameworks that guide hotels toward reducing their environmental footprint, enhancing operational efficiency, and gaining a com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
20,537 Views
28 Pages

27 April 2011

Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,927 Views
13 Pages

Procedural Factors Influencing Forest Certification Audits: An Empirical Study in Romania

  • Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan,
  • Bogdan Popa,
  • Iñaki Heras-Saizarbitoria,
  • Olivier Boiral,
  • Germán Arana-Landín,
  • Adelin-Ionuț Nicorescu and
  • Ioan Vasile Abrudan

2 February 2021

In the recent decades, forest certification based on third-party external audits has gained momentum. This type of certification has been developed as a monitoring tool aimed at improving governance in corporate environmental management and different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,914 Views
21 Pages

22 July 2014

The last revision of the EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme) Regulation encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in the commitment to sustainability. Our research activity i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,788 Views
15 Pages

18 January 2021

Achieving sustainable management of forests in China is becoming increasingly important with more awareness and realization of the importance of forests in environmental protection. Forest certification, a market-based instrument to promote sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,741 Views
11 Pages

8 January 2022

Despite the socioeconomic and ecological significance of the 10.4 million acres of forestland owned by nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners across Arkansas (approximately 58% of forestland in the state), only 5% of this land is certified th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,007 Views
38 Pages

A Holistic Approach to the Environmental Certification of Green Airports

  • Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador,
  • Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés and
  • Bernard Lisker

26 July 2019

Airports around the world are more and more environmentally concerned, increasing their efforts in reducing aviation impacts by applying environmental management, certification systems, or other types of ecological rating systems to their infrastruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,236 Views
21 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Five Forest Certification Programs

  • Alba Rocio Gutierrez Garzon,
  • Pete Bettinger,
  • Jacek Siry,
  • Jesse Abrams,
  • Chris Cieszewski,
  • Kevin Boston,
  • Bin Mei,
  • Hayati Zengin and
  • Ahmet Yeşil

8 August 2020

International expansion of forest certification programs has occurred over the last three decades. Both public and private organizations have shown increased interest in becoming certified by one or more forest certification bodies, to assure the pub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
14 Pages

5 December 2025

This study assessed whether permitting certified recycled aggregate companies to assign both quality and environmental management responsibilities to a single individual affects the effectiveness of post-certification quality management. Using data f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,190 Views
34 Pages

7 November 2025

This study compares certification systems for green healthcare facilities implemented worldwide. Healthcare facilities are complex structures designed to provide uninterrupted service while involving substantial resources, high energy consumption, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,668 Views
18 Pages

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Linkage: An Empirical Analysis of the Slovak Republic

  • Mariana Dubravská,
  • Martina Marchevská,
  • Petra Vašaničová and
  • Rastislav Kotulič

6 July 2020

Sustainability describes a means to satisfy the needs of today’s generation without causing suffering to the needs and standards of living of future generations. The concept of sustainability consists of three pillars: economic, environmental,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,581 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2020

We propose addressing an organization’s adoption of an environmental certification as a multicriteria problem considering environmental sustainability as well as economic and strategic aspects. Our methodological approach uses the Analytical Hierarch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
795 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2025

This study investigates the motivations behind food businesses voluntary participation in certification programs and analyzes their non-conformance reports (NCRs). Health and nutrition food businesses lead in voluntary certification, averaging 5.65 N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
4,659 Views
14 Pages

18 June 2018

Forest certification is considered a viable market-based policy instrument to promote forest sustainability. It has an important role of play in meeting the objective of modern forestry development in China, which is to sustain ecological and environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,552 Views
14 Pages

28 January 2023

Sustainable forest management provides ecological, economic, and social benefits to society. Sustaining these benefits in Arkansas relies on 345,000 nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners who own 4.2 million hectares (10.4 million acres) of f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,627 Views
17 Pages

Recommendations for Developing a BIM for the Purpose of LCA in Green Building Certifications

  • Jakub Veselka,
  • Marie Nehasilová,
  • Karolína Dvořáková,
  • Pavla Ryklová,
  • Martin Volf,
  • Jan Růžička and
  • Antonín Lupíšek

30 July 2020

Building information modeling (BIM) and life cycle assessment (LCA) are two methods that can be helpful when designing buildings with lower environmental impacts. One of the most significant examples of environmental impact assessments in constructio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,550 Views
14 Pages

Environmental and quality management practices are extremely relevant for a firm’s development and international recognition. However, dealing with the standards required and obtaining an international standards certification involves costs for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,630 Views
13 Pages

Adoption of Green Building Assessment Systems to Existing Buildings under Kazakhstani Conditions

  • Alexey Remizov,
  • Aizhan Tukaziban,
  • Zhuldyz Yelzhanova,
  • Tokzhan Junussova and
  • Ferhat Karaca

The construction industry is an enormous economic sector with a profound economic, social, and environmental impact. The building sector is responsible for one-third of total energy consumption and, notably, construction activities account for 39% of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
15,641 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2018

Industry has long been one of the most important drivers of Chinese economic growth. In order to improve the environmental footprint of industrial areas, Chinese authorities have established mechanisms of environmental control in the internal managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,775 Views
17 Pages

28 December 2019

The objectives of this research were: (1) To examine the outcomes and key factors of success (KFS) related to ISO 14001 certification, (2) to compare and contrast these in private organizations (PRIVOs) and public organizations (PUBOs), and (3) in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,252 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2018

With an increase in the number of Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design (G-SEED)-certified apartments in South Korea, people are receiving incentives from the government to purchase them. Since 2013, many benefits for G-SEED-certified bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,453 Views
17 Pages

A Non-Transferable Trade Scheme of Green Power Based on Blockchain

  • Yang Li,
  • Mengying Jiang,
  • Mei Yu,
  • Shouzhi Xu,
  • Xiaojun Liu,
  • Shirui Zhang,
  • Jia Zhu,
  • Shurui Peng and
  • Zhongming Gu

13 August 2024

Power consumers can obtain authoritative green environmental value certification through green electricity trading, which plays an important role in improving the production competitiveness of enterprises, especially for international product trade a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,031 Views
32 Pages

Assessment of Environmental Management Performance in Wineries: A Survey-Based Analysis to Create Key Performance Indicators

  • Jesús López-Santiago,
  • Amelia Md Som,
  • Luis Ruiz-Garcia,
  • Sergio Zubelzu Mínguez and
  • María Teresa Gómez Villarino

This study assesses the adoption and operational effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) in Italian wineries, focusing on ISO 14001:2015. It evaluates commitment, planning, communication strategies, emergency preparedness, and employ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,844 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2017

Since the early 1990s, there has been hope that the uptake of certified forest products would ensure more sustainable forest management and also deliver business benefits along the value chain. Our study applies a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,867 Views
14 Pages

25 January 2022

In the last decades, the academic literature has devoted considerable attention to the determinants of export performance. In result of those research efforts in identifying and examining the influence of such determinants, the literature presents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Challenges and Weaknesses of Myanmar Forest Certification Sector

  • May Zun Phyo,
  • Thant Sin Aung and
  • Xiaodong Liu

14 January 2026

Forest certification in developing countries faces significant challenges due to weak institutions, limited market incentives, and complex trade conditions. This study investigates the status and key constraints of the Myanmar forest certification se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,445 Views
19 Pages

13 March 2025

Achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification is a key objective for sustainable building projects, yet targeting LEED credit attainment remains a challenge influenced by multiple factors. This study applies machine lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
12,163 Views
44 Pages

Gaps and Research Demand for Sustainability Certification and Standardisation in a Sustainable Bio-Based Economy in the EU

  • Stefan Majer,
  • Simone Wurster,
  • David Moosmann,
  • Luana Ladu,
  • Beike Sumfleth and
  • Daniela Thrän

13 July 2018

The concept of the bio-based economy has gained increasing attention and importance in recent years. It is seen as a chance to reduce the dependency on fossil resources while securing a sustainable supply of energy, water, and raw materials, and furt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,075 Views
15 Pages

Carbon Footprint Estimation Tool for Residential Buildings for Non-Specialized Users: OERCO2 Project

  • Jaime Solís-Guzmán,
  • Cristina Rivero-Camacho,
  • Desirée Alba-Rodríguez and
  • Alejandro Martínez-Rocamora

27 April 2018

Existing tools for environmental certification of buildings are failing in their ability to reach the general public and to create social awareness, since they require not only specialized knowledge regarding construction and energy sources, but also...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,606 Views
7 Pages

Forest certification is an efficient tool for the utilization of important and economically viable forest products and linking them to sustainable forest management practices ensuring their sustainable utilization. It includes social, economic, and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,416 Views
13 Pages

Assessment of Chain-of-Custody Certification in the Czech and Slovak Republic

  • Hubert Paluš,
  • Ján Parobek,
  • Roman Dudík and
  • Mikuláš Šupín

21 October 2017

Forest certification is a voluntary verification tool that has been gaining importance within the global sustainability issues as an independent verification tool for sustainable forest management and wood processing industry and as an influencer in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,214 Views
34 Pages

23 November 2025

The concept of green building has become important, as sustainability issues have been acknowledged in the construction industry. Green building certification systems have emerged to measure the sustainability of buildings. While there are numerous s...

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