Cleaner Environmental Systems follows the path developed in Journal of Cleaner Production on the application of sustainability assessment tools including life cycle assessment, energy, exergy, techno-economic analyses and so on. These are rapidly growing reference tools to systematically examine the sustainability aspects of products, services or processes. The life cycle sustainability perspective involves the assessment of environmental/social/economic dimensions throughout the production systems, from the extraction of raw materials, through the production of goods, to the use of those goods and the management of the resulting waste. Life cycle sustainability assessment can support informed decisions, ecodesign and improvement actions to enhance sustainability, without burden shifting.Cleaner Environmental Systems aims to address a series of related topics and will include methodological advances in the environmental and sustainability assessment of processes and products from a holistic perspective. Subject areas include but not limited to: • Carbon footprint • Dematerialization and decarbonization • Ecodesign • Eco-efficiency • Environmental product declaration • Input-output analysis • Life Cycle Assessment • Life Cycle Costing • Life Cycle Management • Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment • Product Environmental Footprint • Product-oriented environmental policy • Water footprint • Techno-economic analysis • Circular Economy • Industrial Ecology • Urban Metabolism • Energy, Exergy Analysis • Industrial Symbiosis • Material Flow Analysis • Sustainable Energy Systems • Net ZeroWe encourage those interested in organizing a special issue or a virtual special issue within the scope of the journal to fill out this form and contact the editors-in-chief for more information.
Cleaner Waste Systems focuses on strategies that can foster waste prevention, optimize management, promote recirculation of matter and energy, and facilitate transition from linear approach to circular economy. Cleaner Waste Systems publishes current research on waste management solutions and policies, education, and economic and environmental assessments and aims to offer an interdisciplinary overview of recent research encouraging discussion and debate on how to achieve Cleaner Waste Systems from government, business, academia and society. The journal provides a key platform for publishing high-quality interdisciplinary papers on research and practice in the field, also including theoretical theses and innovative strategies as well as case-studies from practitioners. It looks outstandingly at the patterns of waste treatment to help identify more-sustainable solutions for waste systems and influence the so-called "end of life" of many products and flows. Though open to all scientific backgrounds, Cleaner Waste Systems will privilege contributions aimed at tackling the problem of waste generation and treatment under a systemic and relational viewpoint rather than devoted to a single molecule, process, product type, technology, in isolation from the context.The scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics, where the cleaner and sustainability dimensions are explicitly treated:Generation and characterizationMinimizationRelevance to carbon peak and carbon neutralityCircular economyRecycling, reuse and remanufacturingStorage, collection, transport, and transferTreatment solutions (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal, other)Final disposalEnvironmental, and Life Cycle AssessmentsAccounting systems and flow analysisEconomic analysisPolicy and regulationsGovernanceEducation, social and engagement initiativesSustainable planning and systems approachWe encourage those interested in organizing a special issue or a virtual special issue within the scope of the journal to fill out this form and contact the editors-in-chief for more information.
