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Journal articles on the topic "Eco-oriented management"
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Doloreux, David, and Luisa Kraft. "A Taxonomy of Eco-Innovation Types in SMEs: Exploring Different Firm Profiles in the Canadian Wine Industry." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (2019): 5776. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205776.
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The paper examines eco-innovation strategies in the Canadian wine industry. It uses firm-level data of 151 wine firms that developed eco-innovations between 2015 and 2017 to build a taxonomy of four eco-innovation strategies: (i) eco-innovation laggers, (ii) product-oriented eco-innovators, (iii) process-oriented eco-innovators, and (iv) fully integrated eco-innovators. We then characterize these eco-innovation strategies with respect to firm-level innovation capabilities, firms’ knowledge openness, and firms’ specific characteristics. The results reveal heterogeneity in eco-innovation strategies and show that these strategies exhibit different configurations of innovation-related conditions and firm characteristics.
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Tyurina, Tatiana, and Olga Ignatova. "Formation of the habitat as a complex eco-social-natural space of an ecologically oriented person." E3S Web of Conferences 273 (2021): 10009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127310009.
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The article deals with the problem of the formation of the environment as a complex eco-socio-natural space of an environmentally oriented person. The purpose of the article is to reveal the two-way influence of nature and man on the state of the environment and the ability of the individual to adapt to all kinds of natural metamorphoses based on their needs. The authors argue that the formation and development of an environmentally oriented personality is a key aspect in the formation of an eco-social and natural space. Balance environmental, moral and spiritual and social and economic needs of modern society, the harmonious coexistence with nature, the integration of rational nature management and stabilization of ecological conditions become prerogatives in the design of the surrounding environment of a modern human-centred sustainable development ecosociology. The article suggests criteria to evaluate the influence on the formation of an eco-social-natural space ecologically oriented individual operating your eco-thinking, aspiration to the organic nature of natural processes and the implementation of major social functions. In turn, the formed eco-social and natural space becomes a generator of cultural processes of an environmentally oriented personality.
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Segarra-Oña, María del Val, and Ángel Peiro-Signes. "Eco-innovation determinants in service industries." Dirección y Organización, no. 51 (December 1, 2013): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37610/dyo.v0i50.427.
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The objective of this paper is to determine, empirically, the determinants of service firms’ environmental orientation (firm environmental responsiveness and environmental performance) while innovating. We analyze 3013 Spanish service firms using multivariate analysis with data retrieved from PITEC Database (Spanish Technological Panel). Results show that environmentally oriented service firms are characterized by product and process orientation. Furthermore, results show that service eco-oriented firms are those that have been more innovative and that rely more on market information sources for the innovation process.Keywords: eco-innovation drivers, PITEC, Spanish service industry.Determinantes de la eco-innovacion en el sector serviciosResumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar, empíricamente, los determinantes de la orientación medioambiental de las empresas de servicios (responsabilidad medioambiental de las empresas y comportamiento medioambiental) cuando innovan. Hemos analizado 3013 empresas de servicios españolas mediante análisis multivariante con datos obtenidos de la base de datos de PITEC (Panel de innovación tecnológica). Los resultados muestran que las empresas de servicios medioambientalmente orientadas se caracterizan por la orientación hacia productos y procesos. Además, los resultados muestran que las empresas de servicios eco-orientadas son aquellas que han sido más innovadoras y que se basan en fuentes de información de mercado cuando innovan.Palabras clave: sector servicios, facilitadores de la eco-innovación, PITEC, eco-innovación.
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Kovtun, Tetiana. "SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF CONVERGENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF ECO-LOGISTICS SYSTEMS." Management of Development of Complex Systems, no. 47 (September 27, 2021): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2412-9933.2021.47.14-24.
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Sustainable development today is one of the most important, urgent and comprehensive issues on which the future of humanity and life on the planet as a whole depends. The high growth rates of material production and population, which have been determining factors in the development of civilization in recent years, have led to a sharp increase in anthropogenic pressure on the environment. To reduce it requires a change in the technogenic type of civilization development to another paradigm. The problem of the mankind future in general has come to the forefront of scientific research and public consciousness. One of the ways to implement the principles of the sustainable development concept is convergent management, in which there is a convergence of scientific and methodological foundations of different fields of knowledge to achieve the goals. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the scientific basis of convergent project management of eco-logistics systems. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to determine the role of values convergence in achieving the goals of sustainable development; substantiate the application of logistics, environmental and project management methodologies convergence in projects of eco-logistics systems; substantiate the application of scientific approaches convergence in project management of eco-logistics systems. The convergence of economic and environmental values is due to changes in the worldview of mankind from consumer attitudes to nature to environmentally-oriented development, which meets the goals of the sustainable development concept. Systems convergence is the creation of environmentally-oriented economic systems, which include eco-logistics systems. Management of eco-logistics systems is based on the convergence of project, logistics and environmental management methodologies, as well as the convergence of general management approaches (system, process, scenario) and scientific-natural (biological, environmental, physical) ones.
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Nikola, S. O. "THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MECHANISM OF STATE STIMULATION OF ECO-ORIENTED BUSINESS." Economic innovations 19, no. 1(63) (2017): 183–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2017.19.1(63).183-189.
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The article considers the mechanism of state stimulation of eco-oriented business. The main elements of the environmental management mechanism that combine the methods and functions of organizational management structures are described. The main methods of state management stimulation environmentally oriented business includes: administrative (administrative and enforcement) - are conditioned by the need for state planning and control over the state of the environment in the interests of each producer and each member of society; economic - stimulate the material interest of economic entities in the implementation of the necessary environmental measures, decisions of management bodies in the field of nature management (taxes, subsidies, subsidies, subsidies, government orders for the production of environmentally friendly products, clean equipment and the provision of environmentally friendly services); moral and ethical stimulation - the creation of a cultural, educational, worldview base that forms the conditions for the implementation of moral and ethical incentives in the use of nature; information methods of incentive management - ensuring public access to information of economic and environmental character. Specific incentive functions have been identified that affect the effective implementation of environmental and economic measures. Managing the stimulation of eco-oriented business involves the implementation of a number of specific functions, i.e. Types of activities that affect the effective implementation of environmental and economic relations: standards and legislation in the field of stimulating the rational use of natural resources and environmental protection; certification of natural resources and pollution coming from the subjects of production and economic activities, taking into account natural objects that require priority incentive measures from the state and business; maintenance of ecological territorial cadastres to justify the allocation of funds from the state and local budgets in order to stimulate the conservation of the ecosystem.
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Swan, Christopher D., and Damian Morgan. "Who wants to be an eco-entrepreneur? Identifying entrepreneurial types and practices in ecotourism businesses." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 17, no. 2 (2016): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1465750316648580.
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Entrepreneurs have been characterized according to recognizable types according to attendant concerns and motivations. Within the small business sector of ecotourism, entrepreneurs must balance competing goals pertaining to business objectives, lifestyle aspirations and, most importantly, sustainable environmental practices. This study reports how ecotourism eco-entrepreneurs perceive and manage these goals, consistent with concerns and motivations, based on semi-structured interviews of small business operators. The findings show that eco-entrepreneurs’ social and sustainable characteristics are critical to overcome financially challenging and complex operating environments whilst also delivering a desired lifestyle. As a business strategy, eco-entrepreneurs were found to deliberately maintain small, low-impact ecotourism operations consistent with identified eco-values. Looking forward, eco-entrepreneurs forecast imminent threats to the ecotourism sector through uncontrolled development and mass-tourism business access to sensitive natural areas. If unresolved, this process will replace eco-entrepreneurs in small ecotourism operators with traditional profit-oriented entrepreneurs delivering undifferentiated and high-impact nature-based tourism experiences.
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Zhang, Yanqiu, and Chunfang Zheng. "ECO-BUDGET APPLICATION ORIENTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: EVIDENCE FROM BEIJING." Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 19, no. 9 (2020): 1491–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2020.139.
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Loučanová, Erika, and Martina Nosáľová. "Eco-innovation performance in Slovakia: Assessment based on ABC analysis of eco-innovation indicators." BioResources 15, no. 3 (2020): 5355–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15376/biores.15.3.5355-5365.
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The development of the global economy is accompanied by growing environmental pollution, which has led to a change in attitudes and a need to promote sustainability. Modern innovation policy is becoming increasingly environmentally oriented. The purpose of this paper was to estimate the current situation of eco-innovation’s development in Slovakia. Eco-innovation Index analysis results showed that, in general, Slovakia is in the group of countries that are moderate innovators, with an innovation performance below the European Union average. Eco-innovation generally positively influences the environmental, economic, and social growth of companies that gradually adopt sustainable development. Therefore, it is convenient to identify the eco-innovative performance of Slovakia as well as to analyze the critical issues, which may also influence the desired positive development of eco-innovation in the future.
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Terekhov, Ye V., and Yu I. Litvinov. "Eco-oriented management of manufacturing and supply activity of manganese ore raw materials supplier." Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu, no. 4 (August 2018): 166–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.29202/nvngu/2018-4/20.
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Varaksa, Natalia, Maria Alimova, and Sergey Alimov. "Eco-oriented management accounting system as a tool for sustainable functioning of an economic entity." E3S Web of Conferences 291 (2021): 07013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202129107013.
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Modern challenges of a global nature, as well as dependence on environmental impacts, dictate the need to determine environmental costs for economic entities, as well as account, analyze and control them. In this regard, the system of environmental management accounting is one of the tools that ensure the sustainable functioning of the enterprise. The article examines the categorical apparatus of an eco-oriented management accounting system in order to study the presented topic. The paper propose a system of information support for environmental management accounting for the purpose of improving environmental safety and leveling existing environmental risks. The main objects of environmental management accounting are identified and the reflection of payments in the environmental sphere on a separate account with the necessary level of detail for the effective functioning of the system is justified. The paper also formulates problems for further research of the environmental management accounting system using advanced achievements and practices in the world scientific arena.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Eco-oriented management"
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Ammenberg, Jonas, and Erik Sundin. "Products in environmental management systems : drivers, barriers and experiences." Linköpings universitet, Industriell miljöteknik, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-13541.
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Do standardised environmental management systems (EMS) lead to improved environmental performance? This depends on to what extent these systems lead to changes in important flows of material and energy, which for manufacturing companies, in turn, mean that the product development process is important. Consequently, it appears vital to investigate the connection between EMS and ‘Design for the Environment’ (DFE), i.e. the connection between these management systems and concepts that deal with environmental issues in product development. This paper presents product-oriented environmental management systems (POEMS), including characteristics of existing models, experiences from projects where these models have been tested and experiences concerning the product connection in ‘normal’ EMS. It includes a discussion of important factors influencing to what extent DFE activities are integrated into EMS and/or the outcome of such integration. There are many motives for integrating the two concepts. Firstly, DFE thinking might enrich EMS by contributing with a life-cycle perspective. If EMS encompassed products' life cycles to a greater extent, they would be a better complement to the often facility-oriented legal requirements and authority control. Secondly, EMS might remove the pilot project character of DFE activities and lead to continuous improvement. Thirdly, integration could lead to successful co-operation, both internally and externally. However, existing studies show that there is a mixed picture concerning the extent ‘normal’ EMS currently encompass products.
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Лопачук, О. Н. "Экологическая паспортизация в Республике Беларусь: вектор развития". Thesis, Сумский государственный университет, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/47457.
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Идея экологической паспортизации сводится к тому, что в
концентрированном виде собирается объективная информация о масштабах использования природных ресурсов, уровне загрязнения окружающей среды, экологическом состоянии отдельных объектов
либо территорий. Такое документальное описание определенных
характеристик субъектов хозяйствования (или отдельных объектов)
может быть использовано для составления прогноза экологической
ситуации как на самом предприятии, так и в районе его расположения,
что, в свою очередь, позволяет обосновано планировать
территориальное развитие.
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Kim, Na-Kyung. "New model of component-based product-oriented environmental management system (C-POEMS) for small and medium-sized enterprises." Thesis, Brunel University, 2008. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3492.
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Product-oriented environmental improvement is a great challenge for SMEs. There are two main reasons for this; firstly, a contradictory situation exists because SMEs lack the knowledge and competence to adopt the mainstream principle holistic approach of environmental product policy and regulations, and, secondly, there is a growing demand to incorporate environmental management system (EMS) and product dimension via ecodesign. To address these issues, this research focused on a product-oriented environmental management system (POEMS) that has been specifically developed to solve these problems. However, POEMS studies so far lack methodological development and focus more on how to incorporate EMS and eco-design rather than how to interpret the contents and improve POEMS as a standard tool. This research aimed to develop a new model, namely, component-based POEMS (CPOEMS). The C-POEMS model is a first attempt to define a potential standardised form of POEMS in its contents and structure, and form the basis for a useable self-help format for SMEs. A C-POEMS model, comprising stages of process, categories of functional areas/units, and elements, and a diagnosis template, as a component-based application, are developed and formulated. Through primary research, the C-POEMS conceptual model was verified and applicability of a C-POEMS component to SMEs was validated. C-POEMS made major contributions of two aspects: (1) methodological development of POEMS; (2) improvement of the format applicable for SMEs incorporating mainstream principles. Regarding methodological development of POEMS, arguments of existing POEMS methods were revealed, and the suggestions as well as analytical information in this research would provide benefit for further research in this field. The C-POEMS improved POEMS by providing clear contents and structure with predefined prior and iii correlated categories of functional area/units, which are helpful for SMEs. In addition, a diagnostic approach would help SMEs recognise their own problems and focus areas. As a result, SMEs can reduce the initial time to identify a structure of product-related environmental management, and increase opportunities to focus on major targets and product aspect for environmental improvements. Because of time constraint and underdevelopment of POEMS, there remain problems, in particular, to fully integrate EMS and eco-design, and the asymmetric situation between maintaining the broad scope of POEMS and focusing upon specific areas and user demand. However, this C-POEMS model provides a foundation for the development of EMS for SME’s and for ongoing development of POEMS.
Books on the topic "Eco-oriented management"
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Werner, Frank. Ambiguities in Decision-oriented Life Cycle Inventories: : The Role of Mental Models and Values (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science) (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science). Springer, 2005.
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Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina, Mario Martín-Gamboa, and Diego Iribarren. "Enhancing Life Cycle Management Through the Symbiotic Use of Data Envelopment Analysis: Novel Advances in LCA + DEA." In Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77127-0_23.
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AbstractThe combined use of Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis (LCA + DEA) arises as a growing field of research when evaluating multiple similar entities under the umbrella of eco-efficiency and sustainability. This chapter revisits a set of four recent LCA + DEA articles within the tertiary sector to explore the novel advances offered regarding the application of the well-established five-step LCA + DEA method for enhanced sustainability benchmarking. These advances – which relate to the DEA stage of the framework – include the calculation of gradual benchmarks for continuous improvement, the period-oriented benchmarking of unidivisional or multidivisional entities, and the implementation of decision-makers’ preferences in the assessment. Overall, these advances further stress the suitability of using DEA to enhance the capabilities of LCA for the sustainability-oriented management of multiple similar entities.
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Pozzebon, Marlei, Paulina Arroyo, and Angela Fleury. "Sustainable Scorecard as an Actionable Framework for Managing Sustainability." In Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-981-1.ch025.
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This paper investigates how corporate sustainable practices can be supported by information management models and information and communication technology (ICT) applications. The empirical work is based on a single case study, a Brazilian company that is applying the concept of a sustainability balanced scorecard (SBSC) to put forward a triple bottom-line strategy. Our results suggest that (a) implementation and use of the SBSC, (b) integration of the triple-bottom line concept within the SBSC, and (c) the place occupied by the eco-efficiency indicator at the heart of the strategic map represented three key factors that helped to enhance sustainability management. Moreover, the development of a sustainability-oriented culture and the strong business intelligence (BI) platform put in place enabled successful implementation of the SBSC in this particular company.
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Sorsa, Kaisa. "Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge." In Cases on Quality Initiatives for Organizational Longevity. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5288-8.ch004.
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Quality management is core area of every company. Sustainable development has become another core issue for the companies encompassing ecological, economic, and social issues. Companies need to decide how sustainable development can be managed in order to achieve both organizational and global sustainability. The aim of the case study is to discuss how sustainability is being incorporated into company management practices in the Finnish coffee company. It also aims to deepen the understanding about the implementation of sustainable development management practices in companies. The ecological challenge consists in reducing the burden that economic activities place on ecosystems directly and indirectly. The successful management improves the company's ecological effectiveness. The social challenge improves the business task of improving the sum of its social impacts. Economic challenge is composed in increasing eco-efficiency and improving social efficiency. There is a need for methodological integration of environmental and social management with their concepts and instruments in conventional, economically oriented management.
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Gavrilko, Tetiana, and Lesya Pobochenko. "«GREEN» BANKING AS A TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTING THE MODEL OF A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BANKING INSTITUTION." In Economics, management and administration in the coordinates of sustainable development. Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-157-2-24.
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The article studies the essence, evolution and features of “green” banking as a way to implement the activities of a banking institution in the format of environmental, social and corporate responsibility. The documentary base for ensuring sustainable development of “green” financial institutions is analyzed. The factors to be used to specify ESGcriteria in the implementation of green finance projects have been proposed. The ways of greening and socialization of financing mechanisms in the leading countries of the world are considered. Analyzed the activities of domestic banks in terms of eco-banking and justified the role of “green” banks in the provision of environmentally-oriented financing projects. The place of “green” banking in the implementation of the model of a socially responsible banking institution was determined. The conditions for the further development of “green banking” in Ukraine were substantiated.
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Rodríguez-Antón,, José Miguel, and María del Mar Alonso-Almeida. "Guiding Principles of Design for Circular Tourism." In Mapping, Managing, and Crafting Sustainable Business Strategies for the Circular Economy. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9885-5.ch002.
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This chapter analyses the guiding principles that companies in the tourism sector should follow to implement a management model that conforms to the new paradigm of the circular economy. To do this, the authors contextualise this new model in the important sector of tourism, creating the concept of circular tourism, and they argue that many of the innovations being incorporated in this sector are oriented to eco-innovation. They also discuss the case of a Spanish urban hotel that has opted for circularity and sustainability, and finally, they propose, in line with the British Standard BS 8001:2017, that the application of the principles of system thinking, innovation, stewardship, collaboration, value optimization, and transparency will help companies in the tourism sector to focus on the new paradigm of the circular economy.
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A. Grenier, Alain. "From Eco to Sustainable Tourism, the Contradictions and Challenges of Nature-Based Tourism: The Case of Polar Cruises." In Tourism [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96914.
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Polar tourism includes all leisure travel products set in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. As such, it is conditioned by an interest for nature in extreme settings (polar desert, cold climate, harsh travel conditions – when by sea. The Arctic adds an additional interest for indigenous cultures. Trying to met those tourism interests, a specialized cruise tourism branch developed in the late 1980s (thu sporadic cruises were held back from the XIXth century onward) providing exclusive access the most difficult and far distant latitudes of the High Arctic and opposite Antarctic coastline. In any form of tourism, operators must protect the resources their economic activities rest upon as any deterioration they suffer will sooner or later impact the experiente and its viability. Hence a paradox: how to protect the ecological (and cultural) integrity of these features for sustained competitiveness? Since its emergence, as an industry some 40 years ago, the polar cruising has followed trends in environmental and social management, referring in their marketing and travel policies to both eco- and sustainable tourism. Serving the wealthy customers, initially the well traveled elderly, the ship-based polar industry kept a simple programme of lecture and soft-oriented activities, namely inflatable cruising in icy bays and close-to-shore trekking. Yet, with an increasing clientele of younger middle-age tourists, operators have also diversified their excursion products to offer more sportive-oriented activities off-ship. As long as these activities were non-fuel based, the operators enforced their ecological management claims. But with more fuel-based activities (helicopter, Zodiac sightseeing), and therefore a more invasive approach to the sensitive ecosystems visited, can this industry continue to claim to be sustainable? Based on the sustainable claims made by two important polar cruise operators, this study ams to underlines that while the polar cruise industry, as a whole, might seek to improve its ecological footprint, there remains many contradiction between their will to be environmental and the desire to conquer the environment.
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Pedoth, Lydia, Fabio Carnelli, Gernot Koboltschnig, et al. "Improving Risk Communication Strategies through Public Awareness and Engagement: Insights from South Tyrol and Carinthia." In Protective forests as Ecosystem-based solution for Disaster Risk Reduction (ECO-DRR) [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99517.
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This chapter presents experiences and results from the INTERREG Italy-Austria Project RiKoST-Risk communication strategies. The project is a collaboration between partners from research and public authorities and aims at improving target-group-oriented risk communication in South Tyrol (Italy) and Carinthia (Austria). Risk communication plays an essential role for risk governance and may address different aspects and fulfill various purposes, from informing about natural hazards, generating acceptance and awareness for structural and non-structural measures, to triggering participation, increasing resilience, and supporting the development of a risk-competent society. To be effective, risk communication needs, firstly, to acknowledge the needs of different target groups and, secondly, to develop approaches, tools and contents that are most suitable to reach and involve them. This chapter describes the results from different activities carried out in the project: a population survey to better understand people’s risk perception and their knowledge about natural hazards, the information channels they use and trust; awareness raising activities in different municipalities; interactive lessons and a workshop in schools; stakeholder workshops. Our results show that that existing non-structural protection and prevention measures, especially Hazard Zone Plans, are little known among the population, that trust in the responsible authorities is high and that there is a need for a risk dialog through different risk communication activities at different stages to provide targeted information on how individual citizens can contribute to risk management. The chapter concludes on how the presented results can be used by public authorities and policy makers to innovate risk communication strategies and to initiate a risk dialog with the overall aim to improve risk governance at local level.
Conference papers on the topic "Eco-oriented management"
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Dorzhieva, E. V. "Cluster Approach To Eco-Oriented Innovative Development Of The Region." In MTSDT 2019 - Modern Tools for Sustainable Development of Territories. Special Topic: Project Management in the Regions of Russia. Cognitive-Crcs, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.05.43.
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Yu, Suiran, Jing Tao, Qingyan Yang, Jianpu Zhang, and Fengfu Yin. "Case Study of Chinese SMEs Oriented Environmental Impact Assessment on Refrigerator Production." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48920.
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This paper presents a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) case study aiming at assisting Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to identify the environmental improvement opportunities. A typical refrigerator SME located in suburb of Shanghai is visited for data collection. Besides, related project reports, academic papers, and LCA software and databases are referred for necessary data. Environment inventory of manufacturing a typical Chinese household refrigerator model is calculated and analyzed. Results show that ABS components are the major contributors to energy consumption; production of rubber (for gaskets), MDI (for insulation) and packaging materials are the most water polluting processes, while phosphatizing treatment of compartment plates and door panels generates most of the waste water with phenol; the majority of CO2 (eq.) and SO2 (eq.) is emitted during ABS component and steel sheet production while the use of F-containing coolant causes most of the CFC-11(eq.) emission, which is the major cause of ozone depletion. The opportunities of environmental improvements are then assessed by sensitivity and economical analysis. It is suggested that for refrigerator manufacturing SMEs, reduction in ABS use and eco-optimized packaging solutions are the most cost-effective measures for environmental improvements. Also, there are improvement potentials in material and energy utility management of SMEs. However, considering their limited management capability and access to resources and information, SMEs needs support from the public sector in entrepreneurship and environmental education, technological and financial help and regulatory protection for sustainable development.
Reports on the topic "Eco-oriented management"
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Niebler, Rebecca. Abfallwirtschaftliche Geschäftsmodelle für Textilien in der Circular Economy. Sonderforschungsgruppe Institutionenanalyse, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46850/sofia.9783941627833.
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This master thesis explores the challenges for waste management business models in the field of textiles regarding the requirements of the circular economy, as well as improvement potentials in the current framework conditions. It is concerned with the research question: "Is it advisable to change the frame-work conditions at meso or macro level, with regard to business models for waste management companies in the textile sector that are oriented towards the requirements of the circular economy, and - if so - in what way?” The approach of the study is based on the delta analysis of the e Society for Institutional Analysis at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. It compares the target state of the normative requirements with the actual state of the textile and waste management framework conditions and attempts to identify the gaps (the delta). Based on the delta, it develops approaches that are intended to help reduce the gaps. The thesis develops three business models for the target year 2025 in different areas: an exchange platform for sorters, recyclers and designers, an automatic sorting plant and a plant for fibre-to-fibre recycling of mixed materials. It is becoming clear that these business models cannot meet the target requirements for the circular economy. The analysis identifies the remaining gaps in the framework conditions as the main problem. For example, insufficient innovation impulses and the lack of competitiveness of secondary raw materials inhibit the actors from applying and using new technologies and business models. Restricted access to knowledge and information, as well as a lack of transparency between the actors, also prove to be problematic. In order to answer the research question, the study recommends altering the framework conditions at meso and macro level. It proposes a platform for cooperation between designers, the introduction of a material declaration system and an eco-design guideline for textiles as possible development options. In addition, this work offers a matrix of criteria to help the actors test and improve their new waste management business models regarding their suitability for the circular economy. The analysis is carried out from an outsider's perspective on the entire textile industry. It therefore cannot cover and deal with all aspects and individual circumstances of each player in detail. The necessary changes in the framework conditions that have been identified can therefore be used as a basis for further investigations.