Innovation, Quality and Sustainability for a Resilient Circular Economy

<p>Part I. Waste management: Innovation and Quality.- Chapter 1. Development of an innovative controlled drying technology for the recovery of waste from the wine chain in a circular-economy perspective.- Chapter 2. Reduction of food waste and donations of surplus food in retail stores: A survey proposal.- Chapter 3. Enhancement of waste from the agri-food chain as innovative ingredients for the formulation of functional foods and their impact in chronic kidney disease.- Part II. Waste management: Circular economy and sustainability.- Chapter 4. The study of variables that influence the implementation of a waste cycle tracking system: a literature review.- Chapter 5. Quantification of fugitive methane emissions from landfills: an open issue.- Chapter 6. Sustainable organic waste management in small communities: evidence from life cycle-based evaluations.- Chapter 7. Valorisation of by-product and industry waste for date palm fruit by recovering bioactive molecules and possible applications: a circular economy model.- Chapter 8. Valorisation of pomegranate waste and by-products for new models of circular economy.- Chapter 9. Carbon, Water and Energy Footprint. A sustainability assessment for fruit & vegetable losses in Italy.- Chapter 10. Green technologies and LCA for the analysis of bioactive compounds in wheat husk: an integrated study for sustainability assessment.- Chapter 11. Modelling the leather industry waste from the circular economy perspective. A depth-review.- Chapter 12. Application of the MFA methodology for the analysis of paper and cardboard waste in Italy and a focus on the waste management in Apulia.- Chapter 13. Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in a Regional Circular Economy Scenario.- Chapter 14. Closing the cycle by reusing treated wastewater: the role of Prato in the European debate on Circular Economy.- Part III. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Energy.-Chapter 15. Natural gas supply in Italy: analysis and perspectives.- Chapter 16. The agro-photovoltaic sector as a possible implementation tool in Sicilian energy transition.- Chapter 17. Redevelopment of industrial brownfields through green hydrogen: evolution and criticalities.- Chapter 18. Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing of a unitized regenerative fuel cell stack: a preliminary study.- Part IV. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Leather and textile.- Chapter 19. A Hypothesis of a Lean Warehouse Design for an Italian Textile-Apparel Company.- Chapter 20. Textile industry between past and future in the in the New Museum of Commodity Science.- Chapter 21. Production and consumption trends in the European textile sector and main sustainability challenges.- Chapter 22. The future of the Italian tanning industry considering the recent geopolitical crisis.- Chapter 23. Risk assessment and life cycle approach to optimize the sustainability performance of leather products.- Chapter 24. A combined economic-environmental assessment of an innovative chemical formulation for waterproofing applications in the leather manufacturing industry.- Part V. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: &nbsp;Mobility, Logistics and Transports.- Chapter 25. Mobility Environmental Profile in the Framework of a Research Project: The “CRESTING” Case.- Chapter 26. University students and mobility. A sustainability analysis.- Chapter 27. Life Cycle Costing in the maritime sector: the case of the extraordinary maintenance of a Roll-on/Roll-off ferry.- Chapter 28. The last-mile delivery process from a life cycle perspective.- Part VI. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Technical materials and products.- Chapter 29. Concerns deriving from the sand business and potential substitutes for a sustainable construction sector.- Chapter 30. Reshoring and nearshoring of resources towards making the manufacturing chain of the Italian ceramic industry more resilient and sustainable.- Chapter 31. Definition of indicators relating to the extraction of minerals used in the ceramic sector for LCA.- Chapter 32. Personal Protective Equipment recycling scenarios for the production of reinforced bituminous conglomerates.- Chapter 33. Environmental performance and efficiency in the semiconductor fabrication sector.- Chapter 34. The recovery of materials and management at the end-of-life of ships. Models and strategies for a Critical Raw Materials Circular Market in Europe.- Part VII. Quality, circular economy, and sustainability: a miscellaneous of general facts.- Chapter 35. Entropic Limits of Circular Economy.- Chapter 36. Circular Bioeconomy: An analysis of operational principles and limits.- Chapter 37. Comparison and Contrast between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Innovation.- Chapter 38. Transition to Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: connections with social responsibility tools.- Chapter 39. A new approach to improve sustainability: the role of Organizational Life Cycle Assessment (O-LCA).- Chapter 40. The proposal for the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD): towards better environmental data in sustainability reporting.- Chapter 41. ESG indicators and SME: towards a simplified framework for sustainability reporting.- Chapter 42. Women entrepreneurship and new business models for a quality production of Aloe&nbsp;Vera in Jordan.- Chapter 43. Sustainability standards and certifications for the healthcare sector: A literature review on social, economic, and environmental indicators.- Chapter 44. ISO 9001 certification of the Specialization Schools of the Health Area of the University of Padova.- Chapter 45. European University Alliances and good quality assurance practice.- Chapter 46. The inclusion of gender diversity in Italian universities: main priorities and critical issues.- Chapter 47. Patent box as a tax relief tool for companies operating in circular economy context.- Chapter 48. Industrial symbiosis in Sicily: perspectives and criticalities</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>