Towards sustainable development through the perspective of eco-efficiency - A systematic literature review
By Rodrigo Goyannes Gusmão Caiado, R. Dias, L. Mattos, Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas, Waler Leal Filho. 2017
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Abstract Sustainability concerns have increasingly gained importance among organizations and their stakeholders around the world. In this context, eco-efficiency has become a consistent tool towards the transition to sustainable development and the efforts of eco-efficiency indicators have been used for comparative studies and decision-making tasks, providing better financial, environmental, and social performance. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review on the theme of sustainable development from the perspective of eco-efficiency, with the adaptation of the Knowledge Development Process intervention instrument - constructivist (ProKnow-C). The paper identifies and structures the state-of-the-art between Eco-Efficiency and Sustainable Development with a view to: (i) selecting a Bibliographic Portfolio (BP) that is aligned with the perception of the researchers on the theme; (ii) performing a bibliometric analysis of the selected BP; (iii) performing a thematic synthesis; (iv) finding the integration of eco-efficiency and sustainable development with other approaches; (v) proposing an innovative framework to achieve sustainable development through eco-efficiency indicators; and (vi) finding paths for further research. This research makes multiple new contributions, providing both academics and practitioners a better panorama to achieve sustainable development through eco-efficiency by expanding the literature review, highlighting the synergies and barriers between eco-efficiency and sustainable development and by comparing and analysing them, showing its relevant features. In addition, we synthesized the contributions of the BP according to the BASF indicators, sustainable dimensions and four measurement levels: industry, organization, project and process to better describe the current academic scenario on the subject.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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- Overcoming the barriers to pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace: A systematic review (2018, methodology): “During this scan, more than 6300 papers were discarded; this is comparable to other reviews with a high initial number of articles (e.g., Caiado et al., 2017, Boehm and Thomas, 2013).”