Elena Simina Lakatos

ORCID: 0000-0003-0096-4494
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Research Areas
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sustainable Industrial Ecology
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Economic and Business Development Strategies
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Cultural and Historical Studies

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
2012-2025

Ministry of Education and Science
2023

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2023

Southern Scientific Center
2023

With a rapidly growing world population and the need to address issue of consumption global resource its associated environmental impacts other social economic issues, demand for responsible consumption, production prevention waste generation become increasingly crucial. this broad characterization Sustainable Consumption Production (SCP), businesses based on circular economy should norm. goal in mind, an online questionnaire survey was performed nationwide scale, explore consumers’...

10.3390/su10030865 article EN Sustainability 2018-03-19

Currently, there are many different interpretations in the literature of what a circular economy is and how it functions. As cities still facing challenges to become fully sustainable, need for comprehensive analysis can be implemented urban areas increasing. This article aims at outlining by their key characteristics further explore provide framework fostering circularity city level. In order achieve this goal, we performed systematic review analyzed papers published field determine...

10.3390/su13147549 article EN Sustainability 2021-07-06

The aim of this paper is to investigate consumer behavior regarding the environment and adoption new patterns responsible consumption in promotion a Circular Economy (CE) Romania. With goal mind, questionnaire survey was performed on-line on nationwide scale explore consumers’ behaviors attitudes, which distributed all four Romania’s macro-regions interviewing 642 respondents. results indicate that consumers have positive attitude towards importance environmental protection, general it also...

10.3390/su8080789 article EN Sustainability 2016-08-11

The current model of linear economy is causing accelerated consumption and an extensive use natural resources that accentuates the effects global environmental crisis. In this context, green products are becoming a key element in transition to sustainable production model. main goal paper identify factors predicting youth consumer satisfaction towards analyze public perception brand Romania. Considering these goals, questionnaire was developed applied 268 participants. results show positive...

10.3390/su131910982 article EN Sustainability 2021-10-03

One of the major obstacles to adoption circular economy is lack consumer interest and awareness. Despite this, unique role consumers in an understudied topic, as literature tends focus rather on application practices organizational industrial sectors. This paper aims examine individual-level factors that have influence over purchasing behavior. Specifically, this elaborates explicative path model products takes into account environmental concern, climate skepticism, attitudinal factor...

10.3390/ijerph191811333 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-09-09

Fungal exopolysaccharides (EPSs) represent an important group of bioactive compounds secreted by fungi. These biopolymers can be utilized individually or in combination with different substances for a broad range pharmaceutical field applications, due to their various biological activities, such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anti-diabetic, and anticoagulant effects. The paper presents up-to-date review the main fungal polysaccharides (pullulan, schizophyllan,...

10.3390/pr11020335 article EN Processes 2023-01-20

This study explores the ways we can evaluate green brands in IT industry. It is important to have a method assess impact that these companies on environment and ourselves. The model aims provide comprehensive evaluation framework, contributing long-term value creation by aligning brand performance with sustainability responsible practices. For this study, will both financial indicators, such as economic growth efficiency of brand, non-financial indicators deal environmental social metrics....

10.3390/su17031336 article EN Sustainability 2025-02-06

The notion of Corporate Environmental Responsibility has been extensively researched in the literature so far, but less is known about how this concept fits into circular economy paradigm. We performed a moderated mediation analysis order to identify mechanism that links corporate environmental responsibility with readiness for change towards business model. findings from 311 respondents show there positive association between and model, mediated by perceived drivers. In addition, barriers...

10.3390/ijerph19020677 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-01-07

Abstract Environmental sustainability and its achievement at the national level is one of key strategic development goals for most countries who are largest environmental pollutants. implies maximum possible reduction negative impact through green energy, increase in energy efficiency, rational use natural resources, introduction principles circular economy increasing public awareness protection climate conservation. There many administrative tools to encourage enterprises worldwide switch a...

10.1088/1755-1315/1126/1/012036 article EN IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2023-01-01

Biodegradation is one of the primary mechanisms for elimination petroleum and other hydrocarbon pollutants from environment. This study presents results obtained with two newly isolated microorganisms their potential applications in bioremediation, agriculture, industrial fields. Twenty-five strains were plant materials subject to a selection process on basis antimicrobial activity. Two bacterial strains, respectively Bacillus mycoides (Bm) Pseudomonas putida (B1), selected further...

10.3390/catal9110959 article EN Catalysts 2019-11-15

The Web is evolving, so the Internet cheapest mean of communication, essential in today’s world, for all these reasons article discusses its implications, more interesting Finnish SMEs that still do not use or ignore Internet. Facing and acute challenges, worldwide, such as vulnerability internet network, moral side knowledge management relationship between human artificial intelligence involves individual collective actors, animated features only from intellectual aspiration to new...

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.463-464.1186 article EN Advanced materials research 2012-02-10

Cigarette butts continue to be a significantly detrimental challenge for both human health and the quality of environment life in general. The escalating accumulation inadequately discarded cigarette continues unabated, spite myriad legislative procedures that have been instituted by authorities with objective incentivizing diminution this phenomenon. For decades, scientific literature has discussed importance smokers’ behavior beliefs contributing problem. Thus, study is analyze butt...

10.3390/su151511908 article EN Sustainability 2023-08-02

One possible solution to the issue of excessive use natural resources is recycled materials in manufacturing new products. Aside from extent which are integrated into industrial processes, a key question investigate whether consumers actually value such efforts and Therefore, main objective this article create test instrument measure customer acceptance A pilot with sample totalling 168 individuals was conducted achieve goal. By using an exploratory factor analysis, final structure three...

10.1051/e3sconf/202340801004 article EN cc-by E3S Web of Conferences 2023-01-01

To analyse the capacity of a soil to sequester organic carbon and impact that deforestation reforestation can have on its physical chemical properties, specific laboratory analyses are necessary. According standard methodology, number 16 samples were taken from two different depths (0–10 cm, 10–20 cm) areas (degraded area forest area) identify if type land use sampling depth key factors in changing obtained values also prove hypothesis according which lands may higher sequestration capacity....

10.3390/atmos13091452 article EN cc-by Atmosphere 2022-09-08

This paper aims to approach the diffusion model developed in 1960 by Frank Bass has been utilized study distribution of different types new products and services. The Model helps describing process which are adopted a market. is useful tool for predicting first purchase an innovative product there competing alternatives on It also provides innovator with information regarding size customers adoption time product. second part dedicated monographic specific conceptual correlations between...

10.1051/matecconf/201713707001 article EN cc-by MATEC Web of Conferences 2017-01-01
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