The history and current applications of the circular economy concept

By K. Winans, Alissa Kendall, H. Deng. 2017

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Prioritization of sustainability indicators for promoting the circular economy: The case of developing countries (2019, background): “In the research front end, there are increasing number of papers published regarding on CE, ranging from its historical development [11,14], analysis of CE”
On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth (2019, background): “Many visions for the circular economy are currently being debated and developed in both the EU and other parts of the world (Kirchherr et al., 2017; Lazarevic and Valve, 2017; Winans et al., 2017; Korhonen et al., 2018).”
Circular economy performance assessment methods: A systematic literature review (2019, background): “Today, after more than ten years of investigations, CE is a widespread concept in literature (Winans et al., 2017), involving also companies and policy-makers (Suárez-Eiroa et al.”
Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package (2019, background): “A defining CE characteristic ‘is the valuation of materials within a closed-looped system with the aim to allow for natural resource use while reducing pollution or avoiding resource constraints and sustaining economic growth’ (Winans et al. 2017, p. 825, see also Ghisellini et al. 2016).”
Assessment of Circular Economy within Portuguese Organizations (2018, background): “There is agreement that the tax (fiscal) policy should positively discriminate the organizations that work in the CE and that the Government should take legislative initiatives to support the CE, as reported in previous studies [11,38].”
The Changing Role of CO2 in the Transition to a Circular Economy: Review of Carbon Sequestration Projects (2019, background): “The ircular economy and integrated w ste management concepts assume at l ast three production stages that must be implemented when using a resource [77,78]: reduce (limitation of technogenic CO2 emission), reuse (using CO2 in its initial form, instead of stor ng it), and recycle (processing CO2‐bas”
A Critical Review of Academic Approaches, Methods and Tools to Assess Circular Economy at the Micro Level (2020, background): “There is no clear evidence of a single origin or originator of the CE, and there are many definitions and interpretations of the concept available in literature [4,18].”
Critiques of the circular economy (2021, neutral): “In just a few years, the circular economy has emerged as a key principle for the industrial and environmental policies in China (Winans et al., 2017; Zhu et al., 2019), Africa (World Economic Forum (WEF), 2020), the European Union (EU) (Völker et al., 2020), and the United States (ReMade Institute, ”