Towards a consensus on the circular economy

By V. Prieto-Sandoval, C. Jaca, Marta Ormazábal. 2017

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Abstract The growing importance of the concept of the circular economy as a way to attain sustainable development has encouraged scholars to propose different ways to understand it. Given the large number of studies done on the circular economy, their differing approaches and their multiple applications, this paper attempts to propose a consensus view of the basic notions of the circular economy framework and highlight its relationship with eco-innovation. To that end, this study carried out a systematic literature review that resulted in four main outputs: a knowledge map of the circular economy, an analysis of the main notions of the concept, principles, and determinants of a circular economy. Finally, this study brings to light some remarkable examples of eco-innovations developed for implementation in the circular economy.

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

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Waste Mismanagement in Developing Countries: A Review of Global Issues (2019, background): “However, three components should be included in the definition of CE [150]: re-circulation of resources and energy, recovering value from waste; implementation of multi-level approach; assessing the innovation introduced within the society.”
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Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy - What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020, background): “, micro, meso and macro), and sustainable design strategies (Ghisellini et al., 2016; Kirchherr et al., 2017; Prieto-Sandoval et al., 2017).”
Inclusive Economic Sustainability: SDGs and Global Inequality (2020, background): “[51] as “the production, application or exploitation of a good, service, production process, organizational structure, or management or business method that is novel to the firm or user and which results, throughout its life cycle, in a reduction of environmental risk, pollution and the negative imp”
Targets for a circular economy (2020, background): “have classified and synthesised scattered theoretical and empirical studies along various criteria: by origins, principles, and models/implementations (e.g. Ghisellini et al., 2016; Kirchherr et al., 2017; Kalmykova et al., 2018; Prieto-Sandoval et al., 2018; Homrich et al., 2018); by CE business mo”
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review (2021, methodology): “Prieto-Sandoval et al. (2019) identify strategies, resources, and”
Interpreting Circularity. Circular City Representations Concealing Transition Drivers (2018, background): “Attaining this circular model requires cyclical and regenerative environmental innovations in the way society legislates, produces and consumes” [7] (p.”
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