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Michele Preziosi
Department of Business Studies, Roma Tre University, Via Silvio D’Amico 77, 00145, Roma, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 08 November 2019 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Concrete is one of the leading composite materials for construction, therefore the identification of strategies aimed at reducing its environmental impact is crucial for greening the building industry and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. One way to reduce this impact involves the opportunity to recycle waste materials as fiber in concrete reinforcement, thus following the circular economy principles. The feasibility of using different waste materials in Recycled Fiber Reinforced Concrete (RFRC) is attracting practitioners’ attention. Through a systematic literature review, the paper analyzes the academic literature on concrete reinforcement using recycled fibers. The main goal is to provide an exhaustive analysis of the phenomenon with rigorous and reproducible research criteria. Eventually, 194 articles were analyzed. RFRC is a research topic, which is rapidly growing over the last years and scholars’ attention is focused both on engineering aspects, through experimental studies testing the composite mechanical properties, and environmental sustainability considerations. From the analysis, emerged that even though the relevance of the construction industry and, as a consequence, of concrete in the global transition toward sustainability it is widely recognized, there is a gap in investing the potential of RFCR in addressing the triple bottom line of it. Finally, it emerged a great research potential in exploring how recycled fibers may be part of a construction industry oriented and inspired to circular economy principles.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Alessia Acampora; Maria Claudia Lucchetti; Elisabetta Petrucci. Recycled fibers in reinforced concrete: A systematic literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 248, 119207 .

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Roberto Merli, Michele Preziosi, Alessia Acampora, Maria Claudia Lucchetti, Elisabetta Petrucci. Recycled fibers in reinforced concrete: A systematic literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 248 ():119207.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Alessia Acampora; Maria Claudia Lucchetti; Elisabetta Petrucci. 2019. "Recycled fibers in reinforced concrete: A systematic literature review." Journal of Cleaner Production 248, no. : 119207.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Increasing awareness for sustainability has led to the proliferation of initiatives in the wine industry. These initiatives mainly aim at managing the environmental aspects of wine production. In this context, the identification of suitable indicators is crucial to evaluate the industry's progress toward sustainability. Firstly, in the present study, the main environmental impacts of wine production are reviewed, with specific reference to LCA studies. On this baseline, the main programs from the New World, Europe and Italy that address sustainability in the wine sector are examined. Results show that each program has its strengths and weaknesses, but there is still a large margin to merge the best of these programs in one unique protocol internationally recognized. Therefore, the authors have compared the set of indicators employed by two specific wine industries initiatives (the Italian VIVA and Californian CSWA) and the indicators implemented by the wine Italian companies certified with the Environmental Management System (EMS), defined by the European Regulation EMAS. A specific evaluation framework has been developed to assess the comprehensiveness of these indicators in terms of their capacity to address the triple bottom line of sustainability. Findings reveal that while VIVA consider environmental, economic and social aspects, CSWA and EMAS focus mainly on environmental impacts of wine production. Additionally, only EMAS has an approach to the evaluation of raw materials efficiency and waste management. The outcome of the study integrates existing literature on sustainable wine production, expanding the scope of previous analysis and introducing an evaluation framework that stakeholders of the industry may apply to introduce new indicators sets to assess sustainability performances of wine producers

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Alessia Acampora. Sustainability experiences in the wine sector: toward the development of an international indicators system. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 172, 3791 -3805.

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Roberto Merli, Michele Preziosi, Alessia Acampora. Sustainability experiences in the wine sector: toward the development of an international indicators system. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 172 ():3791-3805.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Alessia Acampora. 2018. "Sustainability experiences in the wine sector: toward the development of an international indicators system." Journal of Cleaner Production 172, no. : 3791-3805.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi. The EMAS impasse: Factors influencing Italian organizations to withdraw or renew the registration. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 172, 4532 -4543.

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Roberto Merli, Michele Preziosi. The EMAS impasse: Factors influencing Italian organizations to withdraw or renew the registration. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 172 ():4532-4543.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi. 2018. "The EMAS impasse: Factors influencing Italian organizations to withdraw or renew the registration." Journal of Cleaner Production 172, no. : 4532-4543.

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Published: 23 February 2016 in Sustainability
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One of the tools set by the European Community (EC) to reduce the environmental impact of firms is EMAS Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009), setting up an Environmental Management System (EMS), which aims for a continuous improvement of environmental performances. Italy has the highest number of certified organization among all European Member States, accounting for over one thousand registrations. The paper presents the result of a survey conducted through a questionnaire about EMAS implementation and targeted to all Italian registered organizations. Of nearly 1000 organizations, over 500 answers were collected. The main goal is to understand how organizations experience the scheme, focusing on main drivers for its adoption, main difficulties encountered, and perceived benefits. In particular, survey results contribute to define a reflection on the difficulties regarding EMAS diffusion among European companies. Aspects identified as critical can lead to a contraction of registration requests, especially those formulated by SMEs, which constitute the majority of Italian companies. Moreover, perceived difficulties might affect the firms’ willingness to renew EMAS registration. Data provided by the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) recently highlighted the increasing rate of firms who decide to withdraw from registration. This study offers interesting inputs related to main critical issues in EMAS implementation, which can be the baseline for future research on companies that abandon the certification scheme, in order to provide suggestions for the improvement of its effectiveness both for national and communitarian institutions.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Christian Ippolito. Promoting Sustainability through EMS Application: A Survey Examining the Critical Factors about EMAS Registration in Italian Organizations. Sustainability 2016, 8, 197 .

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Roberto Merli, Michele Preziosi, Christian Ippolito. Promoting Sustainability through EMS Application: A Survey Examining the Critical Factors about EMAS Registration in Italian Organizations. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (3):197.

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Roberto Merli; Michele Preziosi; Christian Ippolito. 2016. "Promoting Sustainability through EMS Application: A Survey Examining the Critical Factors about EMAS Registration in Italian Organizations." Sustainability 8, no. 3: 197.

Journal article
Published: 22 February 2016 in Sustainability
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The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the official Environmental Management System (EMS) issued by the European Union (EU). Italy is the country where EMAS is most widespread, accounting for over 1000 registered organizations. Since entry into the force of the Regulation in 1997, the number of registrations has constantly grown until 2008, when the figures started to drop. The phenomena are due to both the decrease of the annual registration rate and the lack of renewals. According to the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), in recent years, an increasing number of organizations decided to withdraw from EMAS registration. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reasons of this negative trend. The first step consisted of a literature review concerning the main barriers, difficulties, and costs incurred by EMAS-registered organizations. Subsequently, this information was integrated with data about the evolution of EMAS registrations and the results of a previous survey, which involved the entire population of registered firms. The present exploratory research highlighted economic and operational domains concerning the cancellation trends that deserve a deeper investigation, which will be conducted through a questionnaire addressed to Italian firms that did not renew the registration in the last lustrum. The intended output will allow us to identify stakeholders’ priority intervention areas in order to suggest an operative strategy to reduce EMAS cancellation rates, addressed to Member States (MS) Competent Bodies.

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Michele Preziosi; Roberto Merli; Mara D’Amico. Why Companies Do Not Renew Their EMAS Registration? An Exploratory Research. Sustainability 2016, 8, 191 .

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Michele Preziosi, Roberto Merli, Mara D’Amico. Why Companies Do Not Renew Their EMAS Registration? An Exploratory Research. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (2):191.

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Michele Preziosi; Roberto Merli; Mara D’Amico. 2016. "Why Companies Do Not Renew Their EMAS Registration? An Exploratory Research." Sustainability 8, no. 2: 191.

Conference paper
Published: 31 October 2013 in Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum
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In its last revision EMAS Regulation has encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in a cluster sustainability process. Our research activity, conducted by the Department of Business Studies of Roma Tre University and ISPRA (High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), intends to partially fill the literature gap in the field by investigating the Italian cluster approach for EMAS, characterized by the creation of a cluster Managing Committee (MC) – which has received a dedicated EMAS certificate – that coordinates the implementation of the scheme. If in a first phase we investigated the effectiveness of support given to registered EMAS organizations inside the cluster by the MCs that possess an EMAS certificate, the main objective of the second step here presented has been to verify the impact on different stakeholders categories of the actions taken by the various MCs in 12 Italian clusters. In this paper we present the results of a survey conducted through the distribution of a specifically designed questionnaire on different categories of stakeholders in the considered clusters. These three categories are the 67 organizations certified ISO 14001 in the cluster’s areas, the 100 municipalities of the areas and the 9 chamber of commerce involved in the Managing Committee of the clusters. The main two goals of the investigation are: to determine the impacts of the action put in place by the Managing Committee inside the clusters, in terms of environmental performance enhancements and network creations to improve the cluster competitiveness; to evaluate how the tools offered to cluster organizations have effectively contributed to a widespread knowledge of EMAS and environmental concerns.

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Roberto Merli; Mara D'amico; Michele Preziosi; Ilaria Massa. EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders. Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum 2013, 1 .

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Roberto Merli, Mara D'amico, Michele Preziosi, Ilaria Massa. EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders. Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum. 2013; ():1.

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Roberto Merli; Mara D'amico; Michele Preziosi; Ilaria Massa. 2013. "EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders." Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum , no. : 1.