Yu Zhang’s research while affiliated with Xi’an International Studies University and other places

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Publications (41)


The 3Rs and Industrial Ecology
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Samreen Muzammil

The “3Rs” in environmental management, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, are fundamental waste hierarchy principles and global sustainability initiatives. This strategy seeks to minimize waste production, preserve natural resources, and decrease environmental contamination, promoting a more sustainable relationship between humans and the environment. Industrial ecology is an interdisciplinary framework that seeks to understand the complex interactions between industrial systems and natural ecosystems.


Social Economical Benefit of Industrial Ecology

June 2024

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The concept of industrial ecology is a holistic framework that seeks to redefine and restructure industrial processes to promote sustainability and efficiency. This framework incorporates a distinctive environmental, social, and economic amalgamation. The present chapter comprehensively examines the socio-economic advantages of industrial ecology, emphasizing the substantial favorable effect that sustainable industrial practices may exert on society and the economy.


Organizational Behavior and 3Rs Intention: An Empirical Study on Waste Management Behavior

June 2024

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The 3Rs play a crucial role in industrial ecology. The reduction concept in the 3Rs involves minimizing the use of raw materials and energy during production. By designing products that require fewer resources, we can reduce waste generation. This requires smart product design, resource-efficient processes, and sharing and repair models to extend a product’s useful life. At the same time, reuse means that instead of discarding items after a single use, we should promote their reuse. Reusing would require high product longevity, a product-sharing platform, and a culture of repairing goods rather than replacements. Lastly, in the 3Rs, recycling is essential for extracting value from resources. However, it’s not the sole solution. Effective recycling requires improvements in focusing on product design, material use, and manufacturing processes while, most importantly, collection Infrastructure and consumer and organizational behavior. The chapter focuses on understanding organizational behavior and its practices in the context of the 3Rs.


IR 4.0 and Health Care Industry: A Case Study on Technology Transformation to Implement Industrial Ecology

June 2024

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IR 4.0 promising solution would make the world a better place. Industry Revolution 4.0 focuses on operations, creating higher visibility of the interconnection between all processes, networking, and cyberspace/security with low or no human interaction. IR 4.0 has shown excellent results in developed countries. However, in developing countries, the change level is not primarily focused. With time, data and information would play a significant role in making the organization achieve its high excellence and bottom line performance.


Industrial Ecology in Food Supply Chain

June 2024

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Industrial ecology in the food supply chain is a holistic approach that aims to optimize resource use and minimize waste through sustainable practices. It involves analyzing and improving the flow of materials and energy through food products’ production, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal systems. The concept integrates principles from industrial ecology with the food supply chain to create a more sustainable and efficient system. This includes practices like waste minimization, Industrial symbiosis, and life cycle assessment. Based on the starting statement, the chapter examines the fundamental factors contributing to inefficiencies in the food supply chain in developing countries, intending to devise approaches to establish a more resilient and sustainable system. This investigation offers insights into the fundamental challenges that impact the food supply chain. An exhaustive literature review is done before conducting the study to establish a theoretical foundation. By employing a qualitative research approach, this study identifies barriers to a sustainable food supply through unstructured interview questions with critical stakeholders and rice processing mills in Pakistan.


Understanding Digital Supply Chains in the Context of Industrial Ecology

June 2024

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Digital supply chains represent a transformative approach to traditional supply chain management, integrating advanced digital technologies to enhance efficiency, transparency, and sustainability. In industrial ecology, digital supply chains facilitate the transition to a circular economy by tracking and optimizing resource flows, minimizing waste, and promoting the reuse and recycling of materials. Companies can gain real-time insights into their operations through big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and many other digital technologies, allowing for more informed decision-making and fostering a closed-loop system that mirrors natural ecosystems. This integration of digitalization within supply chains not only drives economic growth but also aligns with the principles of environmental sustainability, ensuring that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.


Digital Supply Chain Reshaping Industrial Ecology: A Study from the Pharma Industry

June 2024

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The relationship between digital supply chain, inventory management, and industrial ecology is multifaceted and increasingly significant in pursuing sustainable development. Integrating digital technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) into supply chains can enhance transparency, traceability, and accountability. This leads to more efficient resource use, better coordination, and reduced environmental impacts. Effective inventory management can optimize stock levels, reduce waste, and support circular business models when combined with digital tools. This is crucial for minimizing the ecological footprint of industrial activities. Maximizing the use of resources and reducing environmental impacts through designing industrial systems that mimic natural ecosystems. The digital supply chain and smart inventory management are vital to achieving these goals. This chapter details a digital supply chain tool a manufacturing company can use to stabilize their schedules and improve inventory management. A pharmaceutical company in Pakistan is studied based on exploratory research. The study suggests using data analytics tools as it helps all stakeholders communicate clearly about the current status of the whole supply chain and also lets the organization find and fix delays that affect meeting deadlines and the overall efficiencies and improve the processes.


Current Practices in Industrial Ecology

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Industrial ecology presents an innovative approach that holds promise for achieving sustainability in resource-based cities and industrial settings. By imitating the principles of natural ecosystems, such as optimizing material and energy flows, industrial ecology facilitates the transformation of industries towards symbiosis. It creates a circular economy with minimal waste. One critical element of industrial ecology is its potential to promote a shift to low-carbon industries, thereby contributing to efforts to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of industrial production processes. Moreover, adopting principles such as “industrial metabolism” and “technological food webs” provides industries with tools to aid in transitioning toward more sustainable practices. Collaborative efforts between public and private actors are crucial for building a future sustainable society, particularly in green transport initiatives.


Introduction to Industrial Ecology

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The 21st Century’s most significant threat to planet Earth is humanity’s industrial revolution, which caused drastic climate change that affects current and future generations. Besides humankind, other branches of bio-organisms are at risk of extinction, too. Recently, policymakers have been captivated by the potential ramifications of climate change and other environmental concerns on economies and communities, owing to the indisputable significance of these matters. Due to regulations and consumer awareness, organizations are increasingly pressured to do business sustainably. There is an emphasis on sustainability and the necessity to better the flow of material and energy in the industrial ecosystem to meet the economic, social, and legal concerns of all stakeholders (investors, customers, policymakers, and the general public). Many organizations are ignorant of industrial ecology to achieve sustainability and desire to increase profits at the cost of the environment, which has specifically caused global warming and changes in biodiversity.


Realized Social Economic Benefits of Industrial Ecology: A Study on Textile Industry

June 2024

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This chapter goes into great detail about socio-economic benefits and industrial ecology in the context of the textile industry. This study would shed light on the cultural, regulatory, market, and technological hurdles that prevent the textile industry from fully embracing industrial ecology and how these adaptations have succeeded. Industrial ecology makes ecological and human systems work together in a good way for the economy, the environment, and society. After that, an in-depth look at the previous research lays the theoretical groundwork for the study. Additionally, it explores the difficulties that make it hard to recycle textiles and handle trash. Qualitative research is being conducted; data have been collected from various representatives via surveys, interviews, and open-ended questions.


Citations (14)


... Additionally, big data analytics and AI applications improved diagnostic accuracy by approximately 30%, resulting in better patient outcomes [1,11,12], Predictive maintenance and data analytics also contributed to significant cost savings, with an average reduction in operational costs by 15% [12]. Furthermore, implementing green supply chain practices through big data analytics led to improved sustainability metrics in hospitals [13,14]. ...

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Leveraging Business Analytics for Optimized Supply Chain Management in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review
Digital Supply Chain Reshaping Industrial Ecology: A Study from the Pharma Industry
  • Citing Chapter
  • June 2024

... Teknologi informasi adalah gabungan dari teknologi komputasi dan komunikasi yang terdiri dari sistem perangkat lunak dan perangkat keras yang digunakan untuk mengolah, memproses, dan mengubah data sehingga menjadi informasi yang relevan [1]. Alih teknologi adalah proses di mana berbagai organisasi, termasuk pemerintah dan lembaga, berbagi pengetahuan, keahlian, teknologi, manufaktur, dan sumber daya [2]. Komponennya juga berubah seiring dengan zaman. ...

Breaking Barriers: Assessing Technology Transfer for Climate-Resilient Development
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  • Full-text available
  • December 2023

Environmental Technology & Innovation

... As a result, as endogenous driving forces, these variables play an important role in determining the spatiotemporal development of carbon emission efficiency. Furthermore, exogenous driving factors such as government intervention [31,32], the level of financial development [33,34], the degree of openness [35], scientific and technological levels [27,28], industrial structure, population structure [36], and worker quality [37] all have a significant impact on the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emission efficiency. ...

Nexuses Between Technological Innovations, Macro-environmental and Economic Factors
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  • October 2023

... Ref. [27] highlights that compliance with environmental regulations can significantly influence organizational performance metrics in emerging economies. This statement supports the notion that IEIs, through the lens of institutional theory, systematically respond to these pressures, thus improving their sustainability results [21,[28][29][30]. ...

Embracement of industry 4.0 and sustainable supply chain practices under the shadow of practice-based view theory: Ensuring environmental sustainability in corporate sector
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  • February 2023

Journal of Cleaner Production

... O conceito dessa pegada reside na medida de emissões humanas (ou antrópicas), quantificadas em toneladas de CO2(Campos, 2011).Baseada nessa informação se viabiliza o planejamento das ações para a mitigação dos impactos futuros e propostas de compensação das emissões atuais.Neste quadro teórico cabe ressaltar o papel fundamental da Indústria 4.0 na sustentabilidade, ao beneficiar as empresas por meio da maior visibilidade e compartilhamento das informações, fortalecendo os parceiros da cadeia de suprimentos(Khan, Razzaq, Yu & Miller, 2021). As tecnologias digitais da Indústria 4.0, por sua vez, criam capacidades que impactam de forma positiva o desempenho organizacional(Khan, Shah, & Zhang, 2022).A Indústria 4.0, como conjunto complexo de tecnologias variadas que compreendem a manufatura avançada, big data, internet das coisas e sistemas ciberfísicos, promete trazer inúmeros benefícios à sustentabilidade(Sanches, Carvalho, & Gomes, 2019). Com base nas relações entre os conceitos de desenvolvimento sustentável, sustentabilidade, Indústria 4.0 e pegada de carbono, a seção a seguir tratará do delineamento dos procedimentos metodológicos atinentes aos mecanismos de coleta de dados.Ao longo deste trabalho objetivou-se analisar a produção científica mundial relacionada aos conceitos de sustentabilidade, desenvolvimento sustentável, gestão da sustentabilidade,Indústria 4.0 e pegada de carbono. ...

The Impact of IR 4.0 on Circular Economy and Operational Performance to Spur Financial Performance: A Game Changer Strategy

... Trust ( + = 3.4111) and ICT infrastructure ( + = 3.1236) are closely related to each other and are considered the most fundamental factors of the model, and creating constructive changes related to these two factors can lead to more serious and effective changes in SCC 4.0 such as improved Economic performance ( + = 3.1562) and Social Performance ( + = 2.5562). ICT significantly and positively improves responsiveness, reliability, and management efficiency, which further translates into SC performance [36]. Sustainability is considered as important for SC 4.0 performance and is used as the kernel for improving organizations [12]. ...

Empirical Investigation to Assess the Impact of ICT Deployment in Supply Chain Management
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  • September 2021

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems

... After the United Nations advocated the Sustainable Development Goals, enterprise sustainable development has drawn much attention [2]. However, the implementation of SSCM is facing difficulties and has a low adoption rate [3][4]. In the massage chair industry, production requires various raw materials and multiple processes. ...

Green Supply Chain Performance and Environmental Sustainability: A Panel Study

Logforum

... Cold chain logistics generally refers to the system wherein perishable products, such as fresh food, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines, are consistently maintained within a specified low-temperature environment to preserve their value [1,2]. Within the food supply system, the cold chain holds the potential to safeguard food safety and reduce food losses [3]. ...

The Study on Efficient Cold Chain Logistics

... In related research, researchers examined 132 Malaysian production groups with ISO 14001 certifications and discovered that governmental pressure, consumer pressure, competitive intensity, and socio-cultural obligation were the driving forces behind green supply chain initiatives such as GP, design for the environment, and reverse logistics (Alshura & Awawdeh, 2016). Researchers discovered external and internal factors encouraging the implementation of GP programmes in a recent notable study on micro, small, and medium companies (MSMEs) in India Khan et al. (2017), noticed state regulations, consumer demands, and perceived advantages impacting GP implementation in a more recent survey of Malaysian industrial companies with 150 or fewer personnel. ...

The Impact of Green Supply Chain on Enterprise Performance: In the Perspective of China
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  • September 2017

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems