Books in English

Sustainability in MedTech Design

Methods, Tools and Practice

The effects of climate change on human health are gaining attention worldwide. Healthcare systems suffer these impacts while being responsible for 4.4% of global CO₂ emissions: new sustainable solutions are urgently needed. MedTech is a key industry to drive this transition. 

What Is The Circular Economy

New updated and expanded edition

The new, updated and expanded edition of What Is the Circular Economy traces the genesis of concepts and practices of the transition to circularity

Green Accounting and Management for Sustainable Manufacturing – in the Textile Industry

In the study, the LCA tool was applied to an Italian polyester fabric (Apulia Stretch company in Apulia region) to innovate and improve the sustainability of products and improve its competitiveness in international markets.

Circular Economy for Food

Matter, energy and knowledge, in a circle

“This book is extremely useful, as it allows us to try and land, flesh out in real life, a model that is far too often thought of as a chimera, good for the debate table of the theorists, but not really for those who deal with real economics.”
Carlo Petrini

The Intelligence of Nature

3D farming and 11 more unstoppable trends that are revolutioning the production of food and fuel, regenerating nature, and rebuilding communities

The 12 trends presented in The Intelligence of Nature concern the entire economic system, but first of all they apply in agriculture and the agri-food industry.

Circular Economy in Italy

The recycling supply chain: backbone of a waste free economy

Circular Economy in Italy tells the story of the current circular economy transformation that is taking over in Italy, and making it a successful example to be followed internationally.

What is Circular Economy

MicroMacro

The whole of micro systemic relations generates the new economic-productive model

When it comes to economics or production, immediately everybody starts thinking of big industries, large-scale production and international markets. Unfortunately, this happens because these beliefs are spread in the imagination and collective culture as the only way to generate wealth and well-being of society.

Neo-materials in the Circular Economy – Fashion

“Publications like this book are crucial to disseminate sustainable good practice and offer a possible and feasible vision of the future.”
Claudio Marenzi, Chairman at Pitti Immagine

The Bioeconomy Revolution

Interviews with the Protagonists

A fascinating journey into the bioeconomy’s world through a series of interviews with its main protagonists: big companies such as Clariant, Novamont, UPM, Braskem and Novozymes, clusters, universities and research centers, political and economic institutions. This is The Bioeconomy Revolution, the first book telling from inside the bioeconomy, which can be defined as an economy where the basic building blocks for materials, chemicals and energy are derived from renewable biological resources.

Eating Planet

Food and Sustainability: Building our Future

Published for the first time in 2012, Eating Planet illustrates Barilla Center For Food and Nutrition’s suggestions to win the sustainability challenge facing the global agribusiness system.

Bioplastics: a case study of Bioeconomy in Italy

A smart chemistry for a smarter life in a smarter planet

Bioplastics: A case study of Bioeconomy in Italy provides a no-nonsense case in support of public policies that modify consumption patterns, contribute solving environmental issues while stimulating product and process innovation all along a product’s life-cycle.