Sustainability awareness in Brazilian mining corporations: the case of Paraíba state

The impact of lean and green practices on logistics performance: a structural equation modelling

“…Sustainability issues are mostly integrated into different functions of companies which already perceived these concerns as important aspects for their performance (Alves et al, 2018). In the last few years, sustainability awareness has been introduced as a forefront subject for companies worldwide; it has been supporting companies towards addressing economic, social and environmental goals for society, additionally adopting common practices for the elaboration of sustainable practices (Ching et al, 2014).…”

Green Practices as a Path towards the Sustainability: Evidence from Portuguese Companies

“…As one of the key document within the scope of sustainability the Bruntland Commission Report defines sustainable development as the capability of the presentday generations to meet their needs without compromising the capacity of the forthcoming generation achieving their needs (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). The discussion around sustainability are mainly integrated within companies that already perceived sustainability as important aspects to be taken into account ias a strategy to improve performance (Alves et al, 2018). In the last few years, sustainability has been seen as a key subject for organizations worldwide; it has been supporting industries towards addressing economic, social and environmental strategies int their production processes, towards sustainable practices (Ching et al, 2014).…”

“…The authors defend that sustainability has been one of the most important issues for the manufacturing and development of new products. The reduction of environmental impact has been considered as one of the key principle for governments and society (Alves, et al, 2018). It has led companies to go green and reduce the environmental effect caused by its operations, as well meeting sustainability principles (Bathmanathan & Hironaka, 2016).…”

Energy and environmental challenges: bringing together economics and engineering (ICEE’17)

“…Indicators are frequently used for sustainability evaluation of different sectors, as debated and demonstrated for real case studies in Alves et al (2019), de Camargo et al (2019, García-Álvarez and Soares (2019) and Mussi et al (2019). Different and complementary approaches should be considered under this topic, including the life cycle analysis [as debated by Martins et al (2019)] and economic models which allow to estimate the willingness to pay for cleaner options (Botelho et al 2019).…”

“…Different and complementary approaches should be considered under this topic, including the life cycle analysis [as debated by Martins et al (2019)] and economic models which allow to estimate the willingness to pay for cleaner options (Botelho et al 2019). Alves et al (2019) addressed the case of the mining industry in Brazil. A Model for Sustainability Assessment of Mining (SAoM-Model) is developed to obtain a Mining Sustainable Robustness Index which can be used as a proxy to evaluate sustainability of each company and to benchmark different companies of the sector.…”