1st Edition

Blockchain for Good The Transformative Impacts on Industry, Community and the Planet

Edited By Shoufeng Cao, Marcus Foth Copyright 2025
256 Pages 11 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

256 Pages 11 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Blockchain, a technology originally developed for cryptocurrency, has evolved into a versatile tool capable of driving significant change across industries and communities. Its decentralised, secure, and transparent nature has proven valuable in applications that transcend finance, impacting supply chains, digital governance, and sustainability practices. By enabling greater trust and... Read more

Preface

SECTION I: INDUSTRY – BLOCKCHAIN FOR BETTER BUSINESS PRACTICES

1. Thread Count: Implementing Blockchain for Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Transparency

Hilde Heim

2. Next-gen Business Architecture with Blockchain in the Service Industry

Murat Kizildag, Mahala Geronasso and Marcos Medeiros

3. Empowering Small-Scale Agriculture through Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology: Review and Future Perspectives

Sabrina Scuri, Nuno Nunes and Valentina Nisi

4. Empowering Healthcare System Evaluation Through Blockchain Integration

Małgorzata Macuda, Stessy Coutelle, Rami Alkhudary and Pierre Féniès

SECTION II: COMMUNITY – BLOCKCHAIN FOR A FAIRER AND JUST SOCIETY

5. Money as a Design Material Toward the Empowerment of Citizens

Ryan Bowler, Chris Speed and Geoffrey Goodell

6. Blockchain and Tokenisation for Local Communities

Guido Boella, Claudio Schifanella and Cristina Viano

7. A Reference Architecture for Blockchain-based Social Good

Gowri Sankar Ramachandran and Raja Jurdak

8. Non-fungibility as a Conceptual Resource for Design

Chris Speed, Chris Elsden and Peter Tilley

SECTION III: PLANET – BLOCKCHAIN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

9. Evaluating Strategic Resources for Blockchain Implementation in the Plaine de Versailles Food Supply Chain

Stessy Coutelle, Rami Alkhudary and Pierre Féniès

10. Circular Economy through Data Analytics and Blockchain

Behzad Esmaeilian, Hao-Yu Liao and Sara Behdad

11. Blockchain’s Transformative Potential for Circular Economy Laws and Policies

Katrien Steenmans, Ine Steenmans and Phillip Taylor

12. Blockchain Applications for Carbon Trading – An Overview of Current Development in China

Yijia Hao, Shoufeng Cao and Yong Xia

Epilogue

Warwick Powell

Index

Biography

Dr Shoufeng Cao is an Industry Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on blockchain applications for business digitalisation and supply chain innovation in agri-food industries. He currently explores the transformative role of blockchain and NFTs in promoting an Indigenous-led bush food industry. His previous projects funded by Food Agility CRC and Future Food Systems CRC won two Good Design Australia Awards 2020.

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the QUT School of Design. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and currently serves on Australia’s national College of Experts.