Dr. Luciano Lopez
Best Circular Economy Practices in Hotels: the Producer and Consumer Perspective
Dr Luciano Lopez | September 22, 2021
What is Circular Economy? One definition of economics is to understand how the economic agents make their decisions to satisfy their unlimited needs under the constraint of limited resources. Even though it has been clear for many decades that resources are scarce and that some will be completely depleted in the coming years, concrete solutions to reduce or optimize consumption and production are still underexplored. For instance, even though the concept of circular economy (CE) has been around for 50 years (Ellen McArthur Foundation), it has become popular only recently. Our preliminary research on the topic of circular economy practice...
Circular Economy in the Tourism Sector
Dr Luciano Lopez | September 27, 2019
In order to survive the changing landscape of the tourism sector, firms will have to adapt to new trends and consumers' desires caused by the emergence of sharing economy companies By Dr. Luciano Lopez The economy was pictured until recently as linear, with a strong tendency to satisfy the consumers’ needs with brand new products, somehow to give them a feeling of exclusivity. However, a full range of environmental, socio-demographic and economic indicators, mostly alarming, rose the need to change our consumption and production habits. One of the main and current issues discussed in the media is climate change, of which principal so...
