Circular Economy and Sustainability: Volume 1: Management and Policy 1st Edition Alexandros Stefanakis

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• ISBN 10: 012820396X
• ISBN 13: 9780128203965
• Author: Alexandros Stefanakis, Ioannis Nikolaou 

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources. It provides the necessary conditions to encourage economic and social actors to adopt strategies toward sustainability. However, the increasing complexity of sustainability aspects means that traditional engineering and management/economics alone cannot face the new challenges and reach the appropriate solutions.

Thus, this book highlights the role of engineering and management in building a sustainable society by developing a circular economy that establishes and protects strong social and cultural structures based on cross-disciplinary knowledge and diverse skills. It includes theoretical justification, research studies, and case studies to provide researchers, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers the appropriate context to work together in promoting sustainability and circular economy thinking.

Table content:

Chapter 1: A review of circular economy literature through a threefold level framework and engineering-management approach

Chapter 2: Steering the circular economy: A new role for Adam Smith’s invisible hand

Chapter 3: A systems thinking perspective for the circular economy

Chapter 4: Conceptualizing the circular bioeconomy

Chapter 5: Circular economy and financial performances of European SMEs

Chapter 6: History and evolution of the circular economy and circular economy business models

Chapter 7: A triple-level framework to evaluate the level of involvement of firms in the circular economy (CE)

Chapter 8: Exploring resource-service systems—Beyond product-service systems and toward configurations of circular strategies, business models, and actors

Chapter 9: Complementing circular economy with life cycle assessment: Deeper understanding of economic, social, and environmental sustainability

Chapter 10: Life cycle costing as a way to include economic sustainability in the circular economy. New perspectives from resource-intensive industries

Chapter 11: Circular economy during project life cycle

Chapter 12: The role of ecodesign in the circular economy

Chapter 13: Sustainable finance and circular economy

Chapter 14: How to advance sustainable and circular economy-oriented public procurement—A review of the operational environment and a case study from the Kymenlaakso region in Finland

Chapter 15: A framework to integrate circular economy principles into public procurement

Chapter 16: The role of public policy in the promotion of sustainability by means of corporate social responsibility: The case of the chemicals sector worldwide

Chapter 17: Awareness-led social lab on circular economy in Switzerland: Exploring serendipity

Chapter 18: How circular design at signify brings economic, environmental, and social value

Chapter 19: Circular economy and urbanism: A sustainable approach to the growth of cities

Chapter 20: Overview: The smart sustainable city initiatives and the circular economy

Chapter 21: Transitioning into circular food consumption practices: An analytical framework

Chapter 22: From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes

Chapter 23: “Closing two loops”—The importance of energy recovery in the “closing the loop” approach

Chapter 24: Investigation of the sustainable waste transportation in urban and rural municipalities—Key environmental parameters of the collection vehicles use

Chapter 25: New age zero waste sustainable apparel industry: Design practices, innovative approaches, and technological intervention

Chapter 26: A conceptual and empirical study into the process and emerging patterns enabling the transition to a circular economy: Evidence from the Dutch dairy sector

Chapter 27: The contemporary research on circular economy in industry

Chapter 28: The role of collaborative leadership in the circular economy

Chapter 29: Issues, interventions, and innovations in the cement industry: A comparative trajectory analysis of eco-cement transitions in the Netherlands, China, and Japan

Chapter 30: The potential for a circular economy in the nonroad mobile machinery industry—The case of Linde Material Handling GmbH

Chapter 31: VALUABLE—Transition of automotive supply chain to the circular economy

Chapter 32: Circular economy in the cosmetics industry: An assessment of sustainability reporting

Chapter 33: Company perspectives on sustainable circular economy development in the South Karelia and Kymenlaakso regions and in the publishing sector in Finland

Chapter 34: Approaches to the circular economy in Armenia and Portugal: An overview

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