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Prof. Zaneta Stasiskiene
Institute of Environmental Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Donelaicio str. 20, LT44239 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Journal article
Published: 13 August 2021 in Sustainability
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Cities are leading in the implementation of circular economy (CE) principles and sustainable development due to the concentration of knowledge, resources and technology while remaining the highest consumers and producers of resources. CE, urban metabolism (UM) and industrial symbiosis (IS) offer a new more holistic approach based on material and energy flow analysis and materials recovery from waste by creating IS networks to support a new circular urban system (CUM) which contrast to the traditional linear extract-produce-use-dispose model of economic systems. In this paper, we present the concepts of CE, IS and CUM and how the new framework could improve cities transition to sustainability and CE, with detailed CE and IS indicators analysis. We introduce the relations between IS, CE and UM concepts, how they can be used and monitored in the CUM framework. CUM can help unite urban planners, the city’s governance and the business sector to promote collaboration across the city to improve future sustainability and circularity by closing loops.

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Akvilė Feiferytė-Skirienė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9094 .

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Akvilė Feiferytė-Skirienė, Žaneta Stasiškienė. Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9094.

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Akvilė Feiferytė-Skirienė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. 2021. "Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9094.

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Published: 07 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The transport sector is one of the largest contributors of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases. In order to achieve the Paris goal of decreasing the global average temperature by 2 °C, urgent and transformative actions in urban mobility are required. As a sub-domain of the smart-city concept, smart-mobility-solutions integration at the municipal level is thought to have environmental, economic and social benefits, e.g., reducing air pollution in cities, providing new markets for alternative mobility and ensuring universal access to public transportation. Therefore, this article aims to analyze the relevance of smart mobility in creating a cleaner environment and provide strategic and practical examples of smart-mobility services in four European cities: Berlin (Germany), Kaunas (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia) and Tartu (Estonia). The paper presents a systematized literature review about the potential of smart-mobility services in reducing the negative environmental impact to urban environments in various cities. The authors highlight broad opportunities from the European Union and municipal documents for smart-mobility initiatives. The theoretical part is supplemented by socioeconomic and environmental descriptions, as well as experience, related to smart-mobility services in the four cities selected.

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite; Benno Keppner; Zivile Simkute; Zaneta Stasiskiene; Leon Leuser; Ieva Kalnina; Nika Kotovica; Jānis Andiņš; Marek Muiste. Smart-Mobility Services for Climate Mitigation in Urban Areas: Case Studies of Baltic Countries and Germany. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4127 .

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite, Benno Keppner, Zivile Simkute, Zaneta Stasiskiene, Leon Leuser, Ieva Kalnina, Nika Kotovica, Jānis Andiņš, Marek Muiste. Smart-Mobility Services for Climate Mitigation in Urban Areas: Case Studies of Baltic Countries and Germany. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4127.

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite; Benno Keppner; Zivile Simkute; Zaneta Stasiskiene; Leon Leuser; Ieva Kalnina; Nika Kotovica; Jānis Andiņš; Marek Muiste. 2021. "Smart-Mobility Services for Climate Mitigation in Urban Areas: Case Studies of Baltic Countries and Germany." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4127.

Journal article
Published: 24 February 2021 in Atmosphere
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The rapid spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affected the economy, trade, transport, health care, social services, and other sectors. To control the rapid dispersion of the virus, most countries imposed national lockdowns and social distancing policies. This led to reduced industrial, commercial, and human activities, followed by lower air pollution emissions, which caused air quality improvement. Air pollution monitoring data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) datasets were used to investigate how lockdown policies affected air quality changes in the period before and during the COVID-19 lockdown, comparing to the same periods in 2018 and 2019, along with an assessment of the Index of Production variation impact to air pollution changes during the pandemic in 2020. Analysis results show that industrial and mobility activities were lower in the period of the lockdown along with the reduced selected pollutant NO2, PM2.5, PM10 emissions by approximately 20–40% in 2020.

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Akvilė Skirienė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. COVID-19 and Air Pollution: Measuring Pandemic Impact to Air Quality in Five European Countries. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 290 .

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Akvilė Skirienė, Žaneta Stasiškienė. COVID-19 and Air Pollution: Measuring Pandemic Impact to Air Quality in Five European Countries. Atmosphere. 2021; 12 (3):290.

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Akvilė Skirienė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. 2021. "COVID-19 and Air Pollution: Measuring Pandemic Impact to Air Quality in Five European Countries." Atmosphere 12, no. 3: 290.

Book chapter
Published: 31 March 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Zaneta Stasiskiene. Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 205 -215.

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Zaneta Stasiskiene. Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():205-215.

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Zaneta Stasiskiene. 2020. "Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 205-215.

Review
Published: 19 January 2020 in Sustainability
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Nowadays, the increasing rate of human population in urban areas and the importance of urban functions pose a number of ecological cross-boundary challenges. The scientific research of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries revealed dramatic consequences of human intervention into natural ecosystems. The outcome of inadequate consumerism, which promotes industrial growth, and the pursuit of a better life is not only damaging to the natural ecosystems, but will eventually lead the World to dramatic climate change outcomes. Therefore, scientists are looking for ways for sustainable urban transformation without endangering the human population and the environment. According to the identified assumptions, the article investigates the principles of sustainable urban ecosystems. The authors consistently seek to explain the concept of sustainable urban ecosystems in both a broad and narrow sense, focusing on the individual constructs of this term—sustainability, city and ecosystems. The theories and approaches of urbanization and ecosystems are also analyzed in the article in order to highlight the opportunities and specific features of the application. The principles of sustainable urban ecosystems are provided in the modeled system which exposes the interfaces of identified principles and can be used for future studies.

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite; Zaneta Stasiskiene. The Framework of the Principles of Sustainable Urban Ecosystems Development and Functioning. Sustainability 2020, 12, 720 .

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite, Zaneta Stasiskiene. The Framework of the Principles of Sustainable Urban Ecosystems Development and Functioning. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):720.

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Gabriele Cepeliauskaite; Zaneta Stasiskiene. 2020. "The Framework of the Principles of Sustainable Urban Ecosystems Development and Functioning." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 720.

Journal article
Published: 17 December 2019 in Environmental Research, Engineering and Management
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Žaneta Stasiškienė. Editorial. Environmental Research, Engineering and Management 2019, 75, 5 -6.

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Žaneta Stasiškienė. Editorial. Environmental Research, Engineering and Management. 2019; 75 (3):5-6.

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Žaneta Stasiškienė. 2019. "Editorial." Environmental Research, Engineering and Management 75, no. 3: 5-6.

Journal article
Published: 29 July 2019 in Social Sciences
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Introduction—culture is an interpretation code of societies, which may explain common preferences in a place. Prediction of alternative transport systems, which could be adopted in a city at peace can help urban transport planners and policy makers adjust urban environments in a more sustainable manner. This paper attempts to investigate the role of Hofstede’s culture dimensions (HCD) on urban travel patterns in 87 urban areas and 41 countries. Analysis—this is the first, systematic analysis investigating the effect of culture on urban travel patterns with open source data from different urban areas around the world. The relationship between HCD and some urban travel patterns such as mode choices (individual transportation and public transportation), car ownership, and infrastructure accessibility (road infrastructure per capita) was demonstrated. In addition, the relationship between culture and some demographic indicators (population density and GDP per capita) closely associated with travel choices are checked. The relations between indicators were identified through correlations and regression models, and calibrated to quantify the relation between indicators. Results and Conclusions—good correlation values between Hofstede’s fundamental culture dimension: individualism/collectivism (IND/COL) and urban travel patterns were demonstrated with a reasonably good fit. The analysis showed that countries with higher individualism build more individualistic transport-related environments, which in turn result in more driving. On the other hand, collective nations tend to use more public transportation. There is significant evidence that, in the case of nations, an increase in tree culture dimensions: collectivism, uncertainty, and masculinity, results in greater usage of public transport.

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Ali Enes Dingil; Federico Rupi; Joerg Schweizer; Zaneta Stasiskiene; Kasra Aalipour. The Role of Culture in Urban Travel Patterns: Quantitative Analyses of Urban Areas Based on Hofstede’s Culture Dimensions. Social Sciences 2019, 8, 227 .

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Ali Enes Dingil, Federico Rupi, Joerg Schweizer, Zaneta Stasiskiene, Kasra Aalipour. The Role of Culture in Urban Travel Patterns: Quantitative Analyses of Urban Areas Based on Hofstede’s Culture Dimensions. Social Sciences. 2019; 8 (8):227.

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Ali Enes Dingil; Federico Rupi; Joerg Schweizer; Zaneta Stasiskiene; Kasra Aalipour. 2019. "The Role of Culture in Urban Travel Patterns: Quantitative Analyses of Urban Areas Based on Hofstede’s Culture Dimensions." Social Sciences 8, no. 8: 227.

Journal article
Published: 27 July 2019 in Sustainability
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Introduction: As the global warming threat has become more concrete in recent years, there is a need to update transport energy consumptions of cities and to understand how they relate to population density and transport infrastructure. Transportation is one of the major sources of global warming and this update is an important warning for urban planners and policy makers to take action in a more consistent way. Analysis: This paper estimates and analyzes the passenger transport energy per person per year with a large and diverse sample set based on comparable, directly observable open-source data of 57 cities, distributed over 33 countries. The freight transport energy consumption, which accounts for a large portion of urban transport energy, is not considered. The main focus of the analysis is to establish a quantitative relation between population density, transport infrastructure and transport energy consumption. Results: In a first step, significant linear relations have been found between road length per inhabitant, the road infrastructure accessibility (RIA) and private car mode share as well as between RIA and public transport mode share. Results show further relation between travel distance, population density and RIA. In a second step, a simplified model has been developed that explains the non-linear relation between the population density and RIA. Finally, based on this relation and the above findings, a hyperbolic function between population density and transport energy has been calibrated, which explains the rapid increase of transport energy consumption of cities with low population density. Conclusions: The result of the this study has clearly identified the high private car mode share as main cause for the high transport energy usage of such cities, while the longer average commute distance in low-population density cities has a more modest influence on their transport energy consumption.

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Ali Enes Dingil; Joerg Schweizer; Federico Rupi; Zaneta Stasiskiene. Updated Models of Passenger Transport Related Energy Consumption of Urban Areas. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4060 .

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Ali Enes Dingil, Joerg Schweizer, Federico Rupi, Zaneta Stasiskiene. Updated Models of Passenger Transport Related Energy Consumption of Urban Areas. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (15):4060.

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Ali Enes Dingil; Joerg Schweizer; Federico Rupi; Zaneta Stasiskiene. 2019. "Updated Models of Passenger Transport Related Energy Consumption of Urban Areas." Sustainability 11, no. 15: 4060.

Reference work
Published: 16 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Ecological economics; Environmental finance; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental management accounting Environmental accounting (EA)is a subset of accounting proper, which incorporates both...

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Zaneta Stasiskiene. Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2019, 1 -11.

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Zaneta Stasiskiene. Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2019; ():1-11.

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Zaneta Stasiskiene. 2019. "Environmental Accounting: Concept, Methodology, and Application." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 1-11.

Journal article
Published: 04 February 2011 in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
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To pursue the high environmental performance, economic and social effectiveness of the companies, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), is the key goal of the sustainable development concept. Sustainable development is based on preventive management principles, and their application in SMEs has become an important issue for enhancing competitiveness. Unfortunately, most of the sustainable development-related research is focused on large companies rather than SMEs, especially in the industrial sector. The importance of SMEs often remains unnoticed. Besides, SMEs themselves often have inadequate knowledge about their environmental and social impacts and management, and apply voluntary preventive measures less frequently than large companies. To make sustainable decisions and to improve the environmental performance, economic and social effectiveness of SMEs, an integrated sustainable management system (SMS) based on financial analysis is necessary, oriented to strategic sustainability goals, not requiring significant financial and human resources. Integration of sustainability management accounting and composite sustainable development index methodologies forms the basis of SMS for SMEs decision making. SMS was applied in three pilot SMEs (small-scale wood parquet, medium-scale wood pallets, medium-scale beverage producing companies). In this article, an extensive analysis of a small-scale wood parquet manufacturing company’s case is presented. The application of SMS enabled to identify key sustainability problems and to find solutions to improve the companies’ sustainability performance. SMS application resulted in reduced input materials consumption and the reduction of sustainability costs.

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Asta Laurinkevičiūtė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. SMS for decision making of SMEs. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 2011, 13, 797 -807.

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Asta Laurinkevičiūtė, Žaneta Stasiškienė. SMS for decision making of SMEs. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 2011; 13 (6):797-807.

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Asta Laurinkevičiūtė; Žaneta Stasiškienė. 2011. "SMS for decision making of SMEs." Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 13, no. 6: 797-807.

Research article
Published: 01 December 2008 in Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
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Oil products continue to be used as a principal source of energy. Wide-scale production, transport, global use and disposal of petroleum have made them major contaminants in prevalence and quantity in the environment. In accidental spills, actions are taken to remove or remediate or recover the contaminants immediately, especially if they occur in environmentally sensitive areas, for example, in coastal zones. Traditional methods to cope with oil spills are confined to physical containment. Biological methods can have an advantage over the physical—chemical treatment regimes in removing spills in situ as they offer biodegradation of oil fractions by the micro-organisms. Recently, biological methods have been known to play a significant role in bioremediation of oil-polluted coastal areas. Such systems are likely to be of significance in the effective management of sensitive coastal ecosystems chronically subjected to oil spillage. For this reason the aim of this paper is to present an impact of Mn, Cu, Co and Mo quantities on oil biodegradation effectiveness in coastal soil and to determine the relationship between metal concentrations and degradation of two oil products (black oil and diesel fuel). Soil was collected in the Baltic Sea coastal zone oil products degradation area (Klaipeda, Lithuania). The experiment consisted of two parts: study on the influence of micro-elements on the oil product biodegradation process; and analysis of the influence of metal concentration on the number of HDMs. The analysis performed and results obtained address the following areas: impact of metal on a population of hydrocarbon degrading micro-organisms, impact of metals on residual concentrations of oil products, influence of metals on the growth of micro-organisms, inter-relation of metal concentrations with degradation rates. Statistical analysis was made using `Statgraphics plus' software. The influence of metals on the growth of micro-organisms, the biodegradation process rate and the oil product concentrations were evaluated with analysis of variance. The impact has been investigated separately and synergetically.

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Audrone Zukauskaite; Viktorija Jakubauskaite; Olga Belous; Dalia Ambrazaitiene; Zaneta Stasiskiene. Impact of heavy metals on the oil products biodegradation process. Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 2008, 26, 500 -507.

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Audrone Zukauskaite, Viktorija Jakubauskaite, Olga Belous, Dalia Ambrazaitiene, Zaneta Stasiskiene. Impact of heavy metals on the oil products biodegradation process. Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 2008; 26 (6):500-507.

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Audrone Zukauskaite; Viktorija Jakubauskaite; Olga Belous; Dalia Ambrazaitiene; Zaneta Stasiskiene. 2008. "Impact of heavy metals on the oil products biodegradation process." Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 26, no. 6: 500-507.