Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work

By Keith R. Skene. Sustainability Science, 2018

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Strategy and Management

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Marko P. Hekkert
2. L. Piscicelli

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1. Marko P. Hekkert

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1. Julian Kirchherr
2. Marko P. Hekkert
3. Martin Calisto Friant
4. Robert Salomone
5. L. Piscicelli
6. W. Vermeulen
7. Piero Morseletto
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Citations in the corpus

• Critiques of the circular economy (2021, unknown): “…system that is stable, closed, and zero waste—a Spaceship Earth fantasy theorized by Boulding (1966) and reinforced in later works—whereas modern ecological theory tends to construct the planet as an evolving open system of resilience in dynamic equilibrium or non-equilibrium (Skene, 2018).”
• Analysing European Union circular economy policies: words versus actions (2020, background): “…quality and quantity in any reovery process which means it can only supply a fraction of overll material demand ( Cullen, 2017 ; Giampietro, 2019 ; Skene, 2018 ). ecycling alone is thus far from enough to address the current verconsumption of natural resources and overshoot of planetary oundaries…”
• Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU) (2018, background): “The circular economy (CE) is a contested concept (Skene, 2017; Korhonen et al., 2018).”