Business and Environmental Technology Economics Lab

02/11/2019

New paper just published: A benchmarking–scoring methodology for assessing the water risk disclosures of water utilities in Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal

The increasing interest in water protection creates a new complex business environment. On account of firms’ large-scale impacts on the environment and water resources as well as the important role...

27/04/2018

Just Published with Kiriaki Keramitsoglou

Recycling bin design has been shown to be important in guiding and changing waste management practices. The top-down imposition of recycling scheme components, the various colour signage, the different types of recycling bins per material even in the same city, and in light of the limitations cited....

23/03/2018

Sustainability reporting is becoming more and more widespread among companies aiming at disclosing their contribution to sustainable development and gaining legitimacy from stakeholders. This is more significant for firms operating in a public services’ context and mainly when supplying a fundamen...

28/02/2018

New paper just published:

16/02/2018

Just Published: By Silvia Cantele, Thomas A. Tsalis and Ioannis E. Nikolaou

Sustainability reporting is becoming more and more widespread among companies aiming at disclosing their contribution to sustainable development and gaining legitimacy from stakeholders. This is more significant for firms operating in a public services’ context and mainly when supplying a fundamen...

12/01/2018

This article examines the key factors that stimulate entrepreneurs to invest in green entrepreneurship. To answer this, a typology has been developed to first c...

13/05/2017

19/03/2016

The response of small and medium-sized enterprises to potential water risks: an eco-cluster approach was just published in Journal of Cleaner Production by I.E. Nikolaou, M.K. Nikolaidou and K.P. Tsagarakis

This paper investigates the perception of mangers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in undertaking collaborative forms to overcome the weaknesses faced by individual SMEs in an attempt to tackle production and operational risks associated with water issues. It particularly examines the ef…

17/03/2016

Kiriaki Keramitzoglou was awarded a Ph.D. degree today.

05/02/2016

INRA and IRSTEA are organising an international summer school for next july (4th-8th) in Narbonne (France). This short, intensive and highly specialized course is focused on priority and emerging micropollutants in wastewater (including sludge) and wastes systems (including biowastes, green wastes,…

30/01/2016

Clean, not green: The effective representation of renewable energy by Kiriaki M. Keramitsoglou, Robert C. Mellon, Maria I. Tsagkaraki, and Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis was just published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Journal.

The modifiers “green” and “clean” and associated color stimuli are used alternatively for describing and illustrating renewable energy sources (RES), an inconsistency that is likely to limit the cumulative impact of diverse efforts to increase public support and consumer preference for RES. Effectiv…