Maria Claudia Lucchetti

Università Degli Studi Roma Tre | UNIROMA3 · Department of Business Studies

Agri-food companies are developing carbon neutral strategies to set long-term targets to reduce carbon emissions while implementing short terms solutions to boost the transition towards a low-carbon agri-food sector. However, the uptake of the carbon neutrality process presents some limitations and difficulties. The paper analyzes the different asp...

Over time, more and more hotels have begun to include sustainability policies into their operations management. Hotels go green for a variety of reasons, including cost savings, public funding, staff commitment, public scrutiny, investor relations, and general societal good. However, one of the primary motivations for hotels to go green is to respo...

In recent years, many hotels have adopted green practices and have become greener to attract eco-consciousness consumers and to improve their economic performance. In fact, although it is often considered unsustainable, the hospitality industry is a pioneer in implementing sustainability practices. As this phenomenon grew, the number of scientific...

Tourism has a key role in the global economy, and it is a significant contributor to environmental degradation and climate change. Concurrently, it is one of the most exposed businesses to the deterioration of environmental quality. Inside the tourism sector, the hospitality industry accounts for nearly 30% of emissions and in recent years has begu...

The fourth chapter investigates the problem of greenwashing and the importance of sustainability reporting and carbon disclosure. In this sense, it explores different carbon disclosure initiatives underling the importance of good governance for triggering possible drivers of carbon neutrality investment and ‘making markets work’.

The third chapter explores the carbon footprint methodology. Particularly, it presents both methodologies and standards to calculate the Organizational carbon footprint (OCF) and the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF). Moreover, the chapter presents the main methodological issues related to carbon accounting in the agri-food sector.

The ninth chapter explores the role of carbon labels in guiding consumers towards more environmentally friendly and low carbon choices and to inform and educate them about the environmental impact of the food’s life cycle. Particularly, the chapter reviews the main carbon labels and consumers‘perceptions about carbon neutral labels on the shelf and...

The chapter describes the carbon neutrality process and the different phases to achieve a carbon neutral status: measure, reduce, inset, offset, and validation and certification. Particularly, existing verification, certification, and labeling mechanisms for each of these phases have been presented. The chapter has been enriched with numerous compa...

The chapter introduces the dual relationship between climate change and the agri-food sector. While agriculture is one of the main sources of GHG emissions, this sector is an inexhaustible source of solutions related to mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

The first chapter offers an overview of the climate change and carbon neutrality policies of the various countries. A particular focus is dedicated to agri-food policies related to climate change and different mitigation projects developed in the sector.

The chapter discuss carbon neutrality as a marketing tool for brand building, pricing, willingness to pay, and developing new market segments. Carbon neutrality is compared with other greening themes that can be marketed to consumers. Additionally, the chapter focus on final consumers but also on B2B and other possible targets such as access to gre...

The sixth chapter presents the different actors of the agri-food chain involved in the adoption of carbon neutral/low carbon approaches. Then, the contribution of these actors to climate change and agri-food sector emission has been analysed. Additionally, the chapter covers analysis from the literature on different food chains and how much they em...

Social impact evaluation is one of the cornerstones of products and services sustainability. Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA hereafter) focuses on studying potential social impacts of products’ life cycle. As it is a relatively new analytical approach, no globally shared application tools have been developed for it yet. Communicating S-LCA resu...

Concrete is one of the leading composite materials for construction, therefore the identification of strategies aimed at reducing its environmental impact is crucial for greening the building industry and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. One way to reduce this impact involves the opportunity to recycle waste ma...

Risk Management is the identification, analysis, assessment, control, and avoidance, minimization, or elimination of unacceptable risks. In order to consider the environmental sustainability aspects, risk management is a business strategy that aligns profit goals with a company’s environmental policies. The objective of this work has to develop a f...

The environmental impact of marine and coastal tourism is gaining the attention of firms, scholars and institutions. Coastal tourism facilities play a crucial role in the sustainable management of coastal tourism areas in Mediterranean countries. One way by which tourism facilities can preserve these resources is to adopt on a voluntary basis the e...

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary Regulation that defines the European Environmental Management System (EMS). Today the EMAS is undergoing a revision process, in order to fit the scheme to organizations and stakeholders’ requirements and increase its diffusion. Italy accounts for roughly 1,000 of the 4,000 certified European...

Purpose Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) method lacks of standard and code of practice. The aim of the study is to classify the wide variety of contributions on S-LCA for tracking the development of different themes and for defining and classifying the main approaches in a systematic and reproducible way. Methods The research addressed to study...

S-LCA is defined by the guidelines established by the 2009 UNEP/SETAC, as "a technique for assessing social (real or potential) impacts with the aim of evaluating the socio-economic aspects of the products and their potential impacts, positive and negative, along their life cycle, including the extraction and processing of raw materials, production...

Purpose: The food industry is a well-established and complex industry. New entrants attempting to penetrate it via the commercialization of a new technological innovation could face high uncertainty and constraints. The capability to innovate through collaboration and to identify suitable strategies and innovative business models can be particularl...

Recent trends in the international photovoltaic (PV) sector indicate strong growth in terms of capacity and production, which is positively influencing the process of energy system decarbonisation. The aim of this review was to promote productive paradigms for a ‘closed cycle’ economy based on the enhancement of resource efficiency and the reductio...

Purpose – The food industry is a well-established and complex industry. New entrants attempting to penetrate it via the commercialization of a new technological innovation could face high uncertainty and constraints. The capability to innovate through collaboration and to identify suitable strategies and innovative business models (BMs) can be part...

Over the last decades, great attention has been paid to sustainability issues in the wine industry. Thus, many sustainability practices are spreading and at the same time many efforts have been carried out to spread them. In pursuing sustainability, a great number of wine firms have also implemented Environmental Management Systems (EMSs), in compl...

Food waste is one of the most important issues taken into account by the European Union due to its negative environmental, economic and social impacts. The treatment of food waste through recycling processes represents a solution for food waste minimisation. Concerning, in particular, the retail sector, it is necessary to define strategies for reta...

Tourism contributes directly to over 5% of world GDP. At the same time, it has a significant impact in terms of climate change, generating around 6% of global CO2 emissions. Forecasts indicate that by 2035, emissions will increase by 160%. Accommodation is responsible for over 20% of these emissions (United Nations World Tourism Organization, 2011)...

Abstract Further consolidation of Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) are necessary. In recent years the publication of case studies on SLCA increased in order to avoid the risk of developing an unfeasible methodology. The lack of a standard entailed the development of several approaches in applying SLCA. The object of the present research is to se...

Socio-economic impacts of a product life cycle are strongly dependent by the cultural and institutional characteristics of the place the production is settled. The complexity of the analysis and the lack of data have greatly hindered the production of SLCA comparative analysis. Applying the methodological path provided by the UNEP/ SETAC reference...

The adoption of an "open sustainability innovation" approach in business could be a strategic advantage to reach both industry objectives and sustainability goals. The food sector is facing a constant increase in competition. In order to address the high competition that involves the food industry, sustainability and innovation practices can be str...

Metal ions released into the oral cavity from dental prosthesis alloys may damage the cellular metabolism or proliferation and cause hypersensitivity or allergies. The oral cavity environment is particularly prone to corrosion due to saliva, microorganisms, and pH variations. The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the ion release of chr...

The attention regarding social, economic and environmental impacts and the increase in the attention on sustainability by the customers and the other general stakeholders has led businesses to adopt several tools for sustainable development patterns and, in particular, for social development patterns. The development of social impacts’ evaluation i...

The food sector is facing a constant increase of competitiveness. In order to address the high competition that involves the food industry, sustainability and innovation practices can be strategically effective, especially an open sustainability innovation approach. The main objective of this study is to assess the open sustainability innovation ap...

There are several strong and renowned commodity centres in Poland, including those located in Kraków, Poznań, Gdynia, Radom and Olsztyn. They show some diversification by their structures and specific operational conditions as well as local requirements. Such differences are observed also among foreign commodity science centres. This book contains...

Industrial Ecology (IE) is based on the relation between the natural ecosystem and economic ecosystem. The concept refers to the metaphorical relation between the natural and industrial ecosystems as a model for transforming unsustainable industrial systems. Several tools and strategies are particularly significant for the IE development. In other...

The European Initiatives of environmental policy are moving increasingly towards the continuous improvement of performance in a sustainable model, leading to stipulate that one of the components that quantifies the quality of the product on key variables of sustainability influences. The greater environmental impact in many manufacturing stages is...

Sustainability is a key factor of competitiveness. It is important that sustainability assessments are effectively addressed in a global perspective. Therefore, beside instruments such as, for example, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment, which analyze the environmental, economic and social imp...

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The object of the scientific research from the Authors, has been to carry out research into a pertaining to the technology of marketable goods about three types of brackets of Roth system, today on the market. These brackets have been used for refined function of position of the tooth into the three planes of the space for obtaining a correct occlu...

A study concerning the possibility of using thermoanalytical techniques for the determination of water and ashes in cheese has been carried out in comparison with the official methods of analysis. A soft Italian cheese, fiordilatte (a kind of mozzarella cheese), has been studied.Seven different brands including those most widely available have been...