Publications

The more than 100 scientific publications of Walter Vermeulen are addressing a few connected fields of governance for sustainable production and consumption.

Updates and downloadable articles can be found on Research Gate

Some highlighted articles in the subfields are:

Sustainable development: concept and key approaches:

• Vermeulen W.J.V. (2018) Chapter 4 Substantiating the rough consensus on the three-dimensional concept of sustainable development as point of departure for indicator development. In Bell, S. and S. Morse (ed.) Handbook of Sustainability Indicators and Indices, Routledge, London
• Keitsch M. and W.J.V. Vermeulen (ed.) (2021) Transdisciplinary for sustainability- aligning diverse practices, Routledge-ISDRS book series, Routledge, Oxon UK.
• Vermeulen, W.J.V., M. Bootsma, M. Tijm (2014) Higher Education Level Teaching of (master’s) programmes in Sustainable Development: Analysis of Views on Prerequisites and Practices based on a Worldwide Survey. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 21(2014)5, pp. 430-448

Corporate Sustainability: measurement of impacts: Oiconomy Pricing

• Roos Lindgreen, E. and Vermeulen, W.J.V. (2023), “In search for ground rules for product-oriented full cost accounting methods: Ensuring construct validity.”, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 19, 100275, doi: 10.1016/J.INDIC.2023.100275.
• Vermeulen, W.J. V., Croes, P.R. and van der Feen, L. (2023), “Piloting Oiconomy Pricing: First experiences of producers applying full cost sustainability assessment of products”, Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(7), pp. 4924-4937, doi: 10.1002/bse.3400.
• Croes, P. and W.J.V. Vermeulen (2021) The Assessment of Positive Impacts in LCA of products, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2021 Vol. 26(1), pp. 143–156
• Croes, P. and W.J.V. Vermeulen (2019) Quantification of Corruption in Preventative Costs based SLCA. A contribution to the Oiconomy Project. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 142-159
• Croes, P and W.J.V. Vermeulen (2016) In Search of Income Reference Points for SLCA using a Country Level Sustainability Benchmark (Part 2): a Fair Minimum Wage. A Contribution to the Oiconomy Project. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 363-377
• Croes, P and W.J.V. Vermeulen (2016) In Search of Income Reference Points for SLCA using a Country Level Sustainability Benchmark (Part 1): Fair Inequality.
  A Contribution to the Oiconomy Project. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 349-362
• Croes, P and W.J.V. Vermeulen (2015) Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment by Transferring of Preventative Costs in the Supply Chain of Products. A first draft of the Oiconomy system, Journal of Cleaner Production, 102, 177–187. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.040

Corporate sustainability, firm level

• Witjes, S., W.J.V. Vermeulen, J. M. Cramer (2018) On corporate sustainability integration and the support of tools, accepted in World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development,
  Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 581–607.
• Vermeulen, W.J.V. and S. Witjes (2016)  On Addressing the Dual and Embedded Nature of Business and the Route towards Corporate Sustainability, Journal of Cleaner Production (2016), 112, pp. 2822–2832.
• Witjes, S., W.J.V. Vermeulen, J. M. Cramer (2017) Assessing Corporate Sustainability integration for corporate self-reflection, Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 127, 132-147

Corporate sustainability, input side: Sustainable supply chains

• Rueda, X., V. Nelson, W.J.V. Vermeulen (2018) Challenges of the Sustainability Transition in Global Trade (Introduction,) Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 27, Issue 2, p. 172-178
• Vermeulen, W.J.V. (2015) Self-Governance for Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed? In Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 73-85
• Oorschot, Mark van, Marcel Kok, Johan Brons, Stefan van der Esch, Jan Janse, Trudy Rood, Edward Vixseboxse, Harry Wilting (PBL) and Walter Vermeulen (Utrecht University) (2014) Sustainability of international Dutch supply chains – Progress, effects and perspectives, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, PBL publication number: 1289

Corporate sustainability, output side: circular economy

• Reike, D., S. Witjes, W.J.V. Vermeulen, (2018) The circular economy: New or Refurbished as CE 3.0? – Exploring controversies in the conceptualization of the circular economy through a focus on history and value retention options. Resource Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 135, pp. 246-264.
• Calisto Friant, M., Vermeulen, W.J.V. and Salomone, R. (2020), “A typology of circular economy discourses: Navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm”, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Elsevier, Vol. 161 No. May, p. 104917, doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104917.
• Calisto Friant, M., Vermeulen, W.J.V. and Salomone, R. (2021), “Analysing European Union circular economy policies: words versus actions”, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Elsevier B.V., Vol. 27, pp. 337–353, doi: 10.1016/j.spc.2020.11.001.
• Thapa, K., Vermeulen, W.J.V., Deutz, P. and Olayide, O. (2022), “Ultimate producer responsibility for e-waste management–A proposal for just transition in the circular economy based on the case of used European electronic equipment exported to Nigeria”, Business Strategy and Development, doi: 10.1002/bsd2.222.
• Vermeulen, W.J.V., C.W. Backes, M.C.J. de Munck, K.Campbell-Johnston, I.M. de Waal, J. Rosales Carreon, M.N. Boeve, (2021) Pathways for Extended Producer Responsibility on the road to a Circular Economy, White paper based on a literature review and the results of a Delphi study, on the experiences with EPR in the Netherlands, Utrecht University, Circular Economy and Society Hub, Utrecht.
• Campbell-Johnston, K., W.J.V. Vermeulen; D. Reike; S. Bullot (2020) The circular economy and cascading: towards a framework, Resources, Conservation & Recycling X, Vol. 7,100038
• Vermeulen W.J.V. (2006) Social Dimension Of Industrial Ecology: On The Implications Of The Inherent Nature Of Social Phenomena.  Progress in Industrial Ecology, 3(2006)6, pp. 574-598