Circular economy in the construction industry: An overview of United States stakeholders' awareness, major challenges, and enablers

BC Guerra, F Leite - Resources, conservation and recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing environmental concerns and resource scarcity risks have drawn attention to a
Circular Economic (CE) model during the last decade. Nevertheless, literature related to the …

A novel approach for barriers to industrial energy efficiency

E Cagno, E Worrell, A Trianni, G Pugliese - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2013 - Elsevier
A critical review of the literature highlighted the need for a new taxonomy encompassing the
most relevant barriers stemmed from previous studies, and accounting for interactions and …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking circular business: A framework of barriers and drivers

N Tura, J Hanski, T Ahola, M Ståhle… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Circular economy increasingly attracts the interest of business, policy makers and academia
in the search for answers to sustainability challenges. While earlier studies have presented …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers to a circular economy in small-and medium-sized enterprises and their integration in a sustainable strategic management framework

F Takacs, D Brunner, K Frankenberger - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
A circular economy limits the consumption of virgin resources, fosters cleaner production,
and promotes the efficient utilization of resources. However, many companies still struggle …

Innovation for sustainability: the impact of R&D spending on CO2 emissions

YF Fernández, MAF López, BO Blanco - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent decades the sustainability of economic growth has become a critical objective for
most world economies. To achieve this objective it is necessary to stabilize or reduce Green …

Implementation of circular economy business models by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Barriers and enablers

V Rizos, A Behrens, W Van der Gaast, E Hofman… - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly aware of the benefits of
closing loops and improving resource efficiency, such as saving material costs, creating …

Assessing the energy-efficiency gap

TD Gerarden, RG Newell, RN Stavins - Journal of economic literature, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and
environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that …

Technological innovation and environmental quality nexus in India: does inward remittance matter?

MA Villanthenkodath, MK Mahalik - Journal of Public Affairs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the relationships between technological innovation and environmental
quality in India relying on the availability of annual data from 1980 to 2018. Both inward …

[图书][B] The Circular Economy: Barriers and Opportunities for SMEs. CEPS Working Documents No. 412/September 2015

V Rizos, A Behrens, T Kafyeke, M Hirschnitz-Garbera… - 2015 - aei.pitt.edu
The 'circular economy'is gaining momentum as a concept in both academic and policy
circles, and circular business models have been linked to significant economic benefits. This …

Barriers, drivers and decision-making process for industrial energy efficiency: A broad study among manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

A Trianni, E Cagno, S Farné - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency has been recognized as a primary means to increase the competitiveness
of the industrial sector, and in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in …