IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v15y2022i18p6526-d908795.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Analysis of the Past Seven Years of Waste-Related Doctoral Dissertations: A Digitalization and Consumer e-Waste Studies Mystery

Author

Listed:
  • Daria Minashkina

    (School of Engineering Science, LUT University, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland)

  • Ari Happonen

    (School of Engineering Science, LUT University, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland)

Abstract

Solving global sustainability challenges is based on a well-researched understanding of the corresponding underlying problems, key contributing factors, and current state-of-the-art. Utilizing the scope of recent doctoral studies is one potent way to map current young researchers nowadays and near future research focus areas and directions. Here, the authors focused on waste management, especially, mapping dissertations on the grooving global challenge of electronic waste. Currently, this is the first scoping study of its kind, about e-waste -related trends within the circle of waste management-related doctoral studies. Apparently, in a waste-related context, dissertations have a low interest in directly focusing on the topic of consumable e-waste, even though this waste stream is the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream. Only a handful of doctoral dissertations, related to e-waste management, were found in the study. In a more general waste-related benchmarking/comparing mapping search, the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database was found to contain 201 dissertations between the years 2015 and 2022, covering waste matters in general. E-waste was covered in six of these 201 dissertations. These six did not have any real overlapping between each other and their research areas. Further thesis content analysis revealed e-waste topics to be currently addressed through consumer behavior, material recovery processes, forecasting, and robotics. The need for future research in the areas of consumable e-waste management is also widely discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Daria Minashkina & Ari Happonen, 2022. "Analysis of the Past Seven Years of Waste-Related Doctoral Dissertations: A Digitalization and Consumer e-Waste Studies Mystery," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-21, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:18:p:6526-:d:908795
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/18/6526/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/18/6526/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Alexander V. Balatsky & Galina I. Balatsky & Stanislav S. Borysov, 2015. "Resource Demand Growth and Sustainability Due to Increased World Consumption," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-11, March.
    2. Sinha, Avik & Sengupta, Tuhin & Saha, Tanaya, 2020. "Technology policy and environmental quality at crossroads: Designing SDG policies for select Asia Pacific countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Xu, Deyi & Sheraz, Muhammad & Hassan, Arshad & Sinha, Avik & Ullah, Saif, 2022. "Financial development, renewable energy and CO2 emission in G7 countries: New evidence from non-linear and asymmetric analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    2. Cheng, Ya & Sinha, Avik & Ghosh, Vinit & Sengupta, Tuhin & Luo, Huawei, 2021. "Carbon Tax and Energy Innovation at Crossroads of Carbon Neutrality: Designing a Sustainable Decarbonization Policy," MPRA Paper 108185, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2021.
    3. Irene M. Zarco-Soto & Fco. Javier Zarco-Soto & Pedro J. Zarco-Periñán, 2021. "Influence of Population Income on Energy Consumption and CO 2 Emissions in Buildings of Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-18, September.
    4. Chishti, Muhammad Zubair & Sinha, Avik, 2022. "Do the shocks in technological and financial innovation influence the environmental quality? Evidence from BRICS economies," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    5. Chien, Fengsheng & Anwar, Ahsan & Hsu, Ching-Chi & Sharif, Arshian & Razzaq, Asif & Sinha, Avik, 2021. "The role of information and communication technology in encountering environmental degradation: Proposing an SDG framework for the BRICS countries," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    6. Ren, Xiaohang & Li, Yiying & yan, Cheng & Wen, Fenghua & Lu, Zudi, 2022. "The interrelationship between the carbon market and the green bonds market: Evidence from wavelet quantile-on-quantile method," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    7. Shahzad, Umer & Ferraz, Diogo & Nguyen, Huu-Huan & Cui, Lianbiao, 2022. "Investigating the spill overs and connectedness between financial globalization, high-tech industries and environmental footprints: Fresh evidence in context of China," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    8. Su, Chi Wei & Wei, Shenkai & Wang, Yan & Tao, Ran, 2024. "How does climate policy uncertainty affect the carbon market?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    9. Chao Zhang & Lixin Tian & Guochang Fang, 2024. "Analysis of sustainable transformation development patterns and heterogeneity of Chinese cities based on spatial general equilibrium model," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(10), pages 25689-25715, October.
    10. Liu, Yue & Lin, Zijie, 2024. "Impact of regional trade integration and energy transition on natural resources footprints in Asian Countries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    11. Aldo Alvarez-Risco & Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales & Marc A. Rosen & Verónica García-Ibarra & Sandra Maycotte-Felkel & Gabriel Mauricio Martínez-Toro, 2021. "Expectations and Interests of University Students in COVID-19 Times about Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-19, March.
    12. Qiao, Hongqiang & Kang, Yongwei & Yan, Jixuan & Zhang, Jia & Zheng, Zhiqin & Liang, Qiaoxia, 2023. "What role does trade expansion play in the natural resource sustainability of highly resource-consuming countries? Testing Moderating Role of Exports and Innovation," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    13. Sinha, Avik & Shah, Muhammad Ibrahim & Mehta, Atul & Sharma, Rajesh, 2022. "Impact of Energy Innovation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Moderation of Regional Integration and Social Inequality in Asian Economies," ADBI Working Papers 1304, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    14. Lyulyov, Oleksii & Pimonenko, Tetyana & Saura, Jose Ramon & Barbosa, Belem, 2024. "How do e-governance and e-business drive sustainable development goals?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    15. Haiying Liu & Avik Sinha & Mehmet Akif Destek & Majed Alharthi & Muhammad Wasif Zafar, 2022. "Moving toward sustainable development of sub‐Saharan African countries: Investigating the effect of financial inclusion on environmental quality," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(6), pages 2015-2024, December.
    16. Shahbaz, Muhammad & Sinha, Avik & Raghutla, Chandrashekar & Vo, Xuan Vinh, 2022. "Decomposing scale and technique effects of financial development and foreign direct investment on renewable energy consumption," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 238(PB).
    17. Luo, Shiyue & Yu, Mengyao & Dong, Yilan & Hao, Yu & Li, Changping & Wu, Haitao, 2024. "Toward urban high-quality development: Evidence from more intelligent Chinese cities," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    18. Chang, Wentao & Yin, Shanminhui & Yu, Mingwen & Teymurova, Vusala & Balabeyova, Narmina, 2023. "Impact of innovation on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 1185-1194.
    19. Yu, Yiling, 2023. "Role of Natural resources rent on economic growth: Fresh empirical insight from selected developing economies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    20. Chen, Maozhi & Sinha, Avik & Hu, Kexiang & Shah, Muhammad Ibrahim, 2021. "Impact of technological innovation on energy efficiency in industry 4.0 era: Moderation of shadow economy in sustainable development," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:18:p:6526-:d:908795. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.