Circular Economy, Ethical Funds, and Engineering Projects

• Main Author: Konstantakopoulou, Foteini (auth)
• Other Authors: Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P. (auth), Nikolaou, Ioannis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; optimal project profitability; social capital; risk assessment; Life cycle assessment (LCA); corporate philanthropy; Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition; steel production; adaptation; Value-at-Risk; construction delay; sustainable economy; Project Definition Rating Index; circular city; piping construction; transport planning; rule-based systems; resource competition; traffic congestion; smart governance; Management Standards; value of travel time savings; climate change; Fuzzy TOPSIS; manufacturing firms; construction safety; action theory; sustainable city; SME; stochastic simulation; Theory of Inventive Problem Solving; indicators; sustainability; urbanization; prefabrication housing production; pollution impact; sustainable development; cost prediction of substation project; buffer management; circular economy; drivers; Occupational Health and Safety (OHS); smart city; CCPM; research and innovation projects; probabilistic alternative approach; Industrial symbiosis; cost benefit analysis; investments; solar thermal collectors; Support Vector Machines; social network; emergy analysis; IT tools; China; sources of funding; Cuckoo Search; strategic management; photovoltaics; material procurement management; PRAT method; PERT/CPM; fuzzy logic; renewable energy systems; carbon footprint; transport project evaluation; framework; planning and control; political connections; critical success factors; information transfer; social network centrality; resource consumption
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This special issue provides a collection of 15 papers with modern theories and applications for circular economy, engineering projects, entrepreneurship models, and investor decisions. After the commencing review on Occupational Health and Safety Management-Systems Standards, follow papers which can be classified into four categories which cover the overall scope of special issue. The first category includes papers regarding the micro-level of circular economy. This means case studies in firm-level which implement different techniques to achieve sustainable development and circular economy goals. The findings reveal interesting achievements which are associated with cultural characteristics of the countries these case studies have been conducted. The second category of papers refers to the meso-level of circular economy where firms cooperate with each other by exchanging byproducts and organizing common operational procedures and routines to address environmental problems. The findings suggest assessment information technology tools to support industrial symbiosis among European firms. The next body of literature encompasses macro-level where circular economy techniques are implemented at a country level. Findings suggest methodologies for implementing and tracking circular economy in cities. Finally, a number of papers are included that focus on advanced engineering techniques. These techniques are useful tools for achieving circular economy and sustainability.