1st Edition
Blockchain as a Technology for Environmental Sustainability
Foreword
Preface
Electronic Waste Reduction in Healthcare; Finished Products Traceability and Anti-Counterfeiting
António Pesqueira and Maria José Sousa
Blockchain as a Driver of Vertical and Horizontal Information Sharing for Sustainable Innovations
Paul Kengfai Wan, Halvor Holtskog, Lizhen Huang and Mariusz Nowostawski
Blockchain Applied to Environmental Sustainability: In the Context of Smart Contracts
Tewabe Chekole Workneh
Blockchain and its Practical Implications in Waste Management Companies: A Practitioners’ View
Secinaro Silvana, Calandra Davide and Marseglia Giuseppe Roberto
Improving Sustainable Supply Chains Using Blockchain Technology: A Review of the Literature
Albérico Rosário and Joana Carmo Dias
Blockchain x Green Open Innovation: Evidence and Trends for Sustainability
Suelen Marostica, Ronise Suzuki, Andreia de Bem Machado, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini and João Artur de Souza
Blockchain and Sustainable Forest Supply Chain Management: A Literature Review
António Pimenta de Brito
Blockchain as a Technology for Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Review
Andreia de Bem Machado, Filippe Farias da Rocha, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini, João Artur de Souza, Marc François Richter and Marco Tulio Braga de Moraes
Cryptocurrencies—Advantages and Risks of Digital Money
Gabriel Osório de Barros
Blockchain-based P2P Carsharing towards Sustainability
José Rui Sousa and António Pimenta de Brito
A Proposal for a Blockchain-Based Electronic Election System
António Manso and Célio Gonçalo Marques
The Relationship Between Blockchain Technology and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis
Soraya González-Mendes, Fernando García-Muiña, Sara Alonso-Muñoz, Carlos J. Costa and Rocío González-Sánchez
Index
Biography
Maria José Sousa (PhD in Management with Habilitation in Management and Public Management) is Pro-Rector, a professor and a research fellow at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She has co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, and others), and is the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Elsevier and Springer. She was/is the coordinator of several European projects of innovation (funded by programs as Erasmus +, Horizon Europe, and ICMPD) and is also External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Tewabe Chekole Workneh earned a double B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology from Arbaminch University in Ethiopia. He then worked at Ethio Telecom until October 2011 before moving to Ca' Foscari University, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in October 2013. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Arbaminch until 2018. In 2019, he moved to the University of Admas, where he worked as Head of the Department of Computer Science. He worked as a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona.
Halvor Holtskog is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Economic and Management. The subject of his PhD was organizational learning and knowledge creation. His research interests lie in the field of studying socio-technical concerns, ranging from organizational to technology-based studies.
