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Principles and Design Scenarios for Sustainable Urban Food Logistics

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Food and nutrition systems are linked to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which makes their transition toward social-ecological behavior patterns crucial for an overarching sustainability transformation.
Christoph Tochtrop   +7 more
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New Approaches to the Study of Social Inclusion of Poor Children and Youth

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
This thematic issue seeks to bring the field of science on poverty and social inclusion/exclusion of children and youth beyond the state‐of‐the‐art, empirically, theoretically, and methodologically.
Anita Borch, Kirsi Laitala
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Optimism and Internal Locus of Control on Workers’ Well-Being, A Multi-Group Model Analysis before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis led to changes in different areas of workers’ lives, as well as repercussions in stress management, social relationships, and perception of personal and professional growth.
Valeria Micheletto   +5 more
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Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences

open access: yesFibers, 2023
Textile fibers have become a major issue in the debate on sustainable fashion and clothing consumption. While consumers are encouraged to choose more sustainable and circular textile materials, studies have indicated that a reduction in production and ...
Anna Schytte Sigaard, Kirsi Laitala
doaj   +1 more source

Thermodynamic Rarity Assessment of Mobile Phone PCBs: A Physical Criticality Indicator in Times of Shortage

open access: yesEntropy, 2022
Rising prices in energy, raw materials, and shortages of critical raw materials (CRMs) for renewable energies or electric vehicles are jeopardizing the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Jorge Torrubia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers’ Innovativeness and Responsible Consumption [PDF]

open access: yesProblemy Zarządzania, 2018
The grounds for considerations and the analysis in this article are provided by two phenomena: consumers’ innovativeness and responsible consumption. The aim of considerations and the analysis is to seek the impact of consumers’ innovativeness on the ...
prof. dr hab. Anna Olejniczuk-Merta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision Support System of Innovative High-Temperature Latent Heat Storage for Waste Heat Recovery in the Energy-Intensive Industry

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Reductions in energy consumption, carbon footprint, equipment size, and cost are key objectives for the forthcoming energy-intensive industries roadmaps. In this sense, solutions such as waste heat recovery, which can be replicated into different sectors
Patricia Royo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

User Involvement of People with Mild Disabilities in Technology Innovations: Does It Make a Difference?

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
In this study, we explored the role of people with mild forms of visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive impairments in innovation processes. Our research questions are: do the product evaluations by people with mild disabilities differ from those given
Anita Borch, Pål Strandbakken
doaj   +1 more source

The ongoing challenge of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in Europe: an epidemiological analysis of bloodstream infections

open access: yesEmerging Microbes and Infections, 2020
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infections are of great public health significance due to limited therapeutic options. We investigated epidemiological trends and risk factors of vancomycin resistance in enterococci isolates from patients with ...
Olaniyi Ayobami   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building back normal? An investigation of practice changes in the charitable and on-the-go food provision sectors through COVID-19

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about debates on rethinking food and other socio-technical systems. While swiftly re-establishing normality has understandable appeal in a crisis, the landscape-level changes during the pandemic also hold windows of ...
Steffen Hirth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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