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Assessing the Value of Information Technology for the Decarbonization of Freight Transport 评估信息技术对货运去碳化的价值

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain3010002

A. G. Giannopoulos, Tatiana P. Moschovou

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Charging-for-Recycling Business Model and Consumer Adoption of Recyclable Electronics 回收收费商业模式与消费者采用可回收电子产品的情况

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2040019

M. Mahmoudzadeh

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Designing a Sustainable Business Models for Green Transition of SEZ in Campania—Towards the Conceptual Framework 为坎帕尼亚经济特区的绿色转型设计可持续商业模式--走向概念框架

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2040018

Irina Di Ruocco

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Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-stage Business Models: Introducing esSROI 捕捉早期商业模式的可持续影响:引入esSROI

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2030013

Karina Cagarman, K. Fajga, J. Kratzer

{"title":"Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-stage Business Models: Introducing esSROI","authors":"Karina Cagarman, K. Fajga, J. Kratzer","doi":"10.54175/hsustain2030013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain2030013","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an early-stage Sustainable Return on Investment (esSROI) measurement tool to evaluate the impact of early-stage business models. The main objective for developing the tool is to capture the holistic sustainability-related impacts of the incubation process from start-ups already during the conceptualization and pre-seed phases. An early, holistic impression of sustainable potential offers many opportunities to iteratively improve the degree of potential sustainable impact. The scope of designing and alternating business models is the widest early in the process before narrowing it down. This very early application differentiates esSROI from other tools that are used later in seed phases. Applying the tool in the conceptualization phase might make it even more usable already among (student) teams before incubation/acceleration. The quantitative measurement tool esSROI consists of a questionnaire design and follows a triangulation and long-term approach that includes three measurement points that capture the iterative progress. A preliminary study has been conducted in 2022 and shows that the tool is easy to use and accepted by founders.","PeriodicalId":259912,"journal":{"name":"Highlights of Sustainability","volume":"110 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114151501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Young Women as Social Entrepreneurs in the Environmental Sector in Ghana: Development Hackers and the Re-imagining of Sustainable Development Models 加纳环境部门的青年女性社会企业家:发展黑客和可持续发展模式的重新构想

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2030012

A. Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings, G. Essegbey

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An Open-data Repository for Sustainable Tourism 可持续旅游的开放数据存储库

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2030011

Nikolaos Partarakis, Effrosini Karouzaki, S. Ntoa, Anastasia Ntagianta, Emmanouil Zidianakis, C. Stephanidis

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Feasibility of Remanufacturing in Shoemaking Machines under the Trend of Net-zero Carbon Emissions 碳净零排放趋势下制鞋机械再制造的可行性

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-06-17 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2020010

Wan-Ju Chen, Rong-Ho Lin, Chun-Ling Chuang

{"title":"Feasibility of Remanufacturing in Shoemaking Machines under the Trend of Net-zero Carbon Emissions","authors":"Wan-Ju Chen, Rong-Ho Lin, Chun-Ling Chuang","doi":"10.54175/hsustain2020010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain2020010","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 has become a common goal in the world. An effective strategy to reduce carbon emissions will be the key to maintaining international competitiveness. Although green energy exchange is mature around the world, the relevant systems and regulations in Taiwan are not yet ready. This research examines the feasibility of shoemaking machines remanufacturing and tries to seek effective strategies to achieve carbon neutrality for the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of shoemaking machines. The evaluation of remanufacturing in a shoemaking machine is based on imprecise and fuzzy information. First, the feasibility evaluation model of remanufacturing in a shoemaking machine is established, including technical, economic, and resource environment feasibility criteria. Second, the comprehensive benefit evaluation model of the remanufacturing shoemaking machine is established, in which the weight of each criterion is determined by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, combined with the questionnaire, the evaluation method is verified and analyzed. The results show that the four criteria (clusters) for remanufacturing shoemaking machines have different weights, in descending order: Product design, Business model, Recycling system, and Corporate image. This implies that Product design is the most important factor for remanufacturing shoemaking machines, followed by the Business model, Recycling system, and Corporate image. Therefore, to succeed in the circular economy, OEMs need to rethink how to redesign their products from the beginning and create a new business model.","PeriodicalId":259912,"journal":{"name":"Highlights of Sustainability","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129753127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Orbital and Suborbital Tourism Challenges—Some Legal Aspects 轨道和亚轨道旅游的挑战-一些法律方面

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2020009

M. Polkowska

{"title":"Orbital and Suborbital Tourism Challenges—Some Legal Aspects","authors":"M. Polkowska","doi":"10.54175/hsustain2020009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain2020009","url":null,"abstract":"Space tourism is recreational space travel, whether by government vehicles, such as the Russian Soyuz and the International Space Station (ISS), or by vehicles built by private companies. Since the flight of the world’s first space tourist, American businessman Dennis Tito (28 April 2001), space tourism (orbital) has been slowly growing. Orbital space tourism is very expensive, so a number of private companies have decided to concentrate on building much cheaper suborbital vehicles, designed to take passengers to altitudes of up to 100 km. On 4 October 2004, SpaceShipOne, funded by Virgin Galactic and designed by an American engineer, won the X Prize and, in doing so, ushered in a new era of commercial crewed spaceflight and space tourism. Since then, the design and construction of suborbital spacecraft have become increasingly popular. Such ships, in principle, do not have the ability to cross the imaginary 100 km boundary and enter the Cosmos area. However, space tourists can find themselves weightless for a few minutes. In fact, not only technical but legal difficulties have caused suborbital tourism to develop at a slow pace so far. This article concentrates on some legal challenges regarding space tourism, not going into details about states’ politics and international organizations’ activities.","PeriodicalId":259912,"journal":{"name":"Highlights of Sustainability","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129025115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sustainable Development of Tourism: Research and Policy Challenges 旅游业的可持续发展:研究与政策挑战

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2020008

L. Dwyer

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New Space Tourism Sustainability as an Evolving Concept 新太空旅游的可持续发展概念

Highlights of Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI: 10.54175/hsustain2020007

Annette Toivonen

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