Industrial sustainability: integrating sustainability principles and the latest industrial revolutions

Shahryar Sorooshian; Shahryar Sorooshian

doi:10.3934/environsci.2025047

AIMS Environmental Science

2025, Volume 12, Issue 6: 1076-1080. doi: 10.3934/environsci.2025047

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Industrial sustainability: integrating sustainability principles and the latest industrial revolutions

Shahryar Sorooshian ^{1,2
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Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

Received: 29 September 2025 Accepted: 05 December 2025 Published: 24 December 2025

- industrial revolutions,
- industrial revolution 6.0,
- circular economy,
- net-zero,
- net-positive,
- regenerative system
Citation: Shahryar Sorooshian. Industrial sustainability: integrating sustainability principles and the latest industrial revolutions[J]. AIMS Environmental Science, 2025, 12(6): 1076-1080. doi: 10.3934/environsci.2025047

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