Organizational resilience and social-economic sustainability: COVID-19 perspective

Environment, Development and Sustainability - COVID-19 has affected the global economy like no other crisis in the history of mankind. It forced worldwide lockdown and economic shutdown to the...     

Recent advancements in the challenges and strategies of globally used traffic noise prediction models

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - It is the need of an era to develop efficient traffic noise prediction models with optimum accuracy. In this context, the present work tries to...     

A holistic study on geothermal and solar water desalination system for sustainable development

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This paper shows the comparison of the various conventional technologies used for desalination and the advantages of using renewable energy such as...     

Influence of antioxidant additives on performance and emission characteristics of beef tallow biodiesel-fuelled C.I engine

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This work analyses the performance and emission characteristics of biofuelled compression ignition (C.I) engine with the implementation of an...     

Effect of electrostatic precipitator on exhaust emissions in biodiesel fuelled CI engine

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The exhaust emissions from the compression ignition engines are harmful to both human beings and the environment. After-treatment devices placed in...     

Exploring the relationship between unethical practices,buyer–supplier relationships and green design for sustainability

Sustainable procurement practices have gained popularity amongst both researchers and supply chain practitioners. However, ethical practices in sustainable procurement have been the topic of discussion in the recent years. The goal of the study is to scientifically build a green procurement framework by exploring relationship between buyer–supplier relationships, unethical practices and green design for sustainability. The study was conducted considering samples from South African steel and engineering sector. Data show high rate of wastages and losses occurring at various stages of steel and engineering supply chains. Every steel and engineering company aims to reduce such losses for improving their profitability and achieve sustainability. The empirical findings show that such wastage and losses can be minimised through efficient eco-design and involvement of key suppliers at the design stage so that disassembly, recycling and reuse options not only prove successful but as well cost-effective for the organisation. Also we find that buyer deceitful practices are a strong determinant of green design for sustainability. Buyers making up a second source of supply for green components and preferring green suppliers being approved by top management is helpful for mitigation of supply risks under green procurement process. The present study is distinctive in terms of coverage and its contribution to supply chain theory.     

Analyzing critical success factors to adopt sustainable consumption and production linked with circular economy

Environment, Development and Sustainability - Scarcity of natural resources and increasing level of pollution have put the survival of human in trouble. This situation has compelled the world to...