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The Circular Economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
When production resources are considered significant economic variables, the circular economy (CE) is viewed as a closed-loop economic system. It is a sustainable development strategy based on limited resources that addresses urgent problems of ...
Heshmati, Almas, Mohsen Khezri
core   +3 more sources

Digitalizing Circular Economy through Blockchains: The Blockchain Circular Economy Index [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 2023
The integration of circular economy (CE) models into everyday contexts generates huge amount of data involved in goods tracking and tokenization procedures.
Basile D.   +3 more
core   +6 more sources

The Baltics on their way towards a circular economy [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2017
Circular economy has been studied extensively both in Europe and worldwide. It is largely viewed as a potential strategy for societal development, aimed to increase prosperity while reducing dependence on raw materials and energy.
Borodavkina, N. Yu., Grigoryan, A. A.
core   +2 more sources

The emergence of digital transformation in the automotive industry - Industry 4.0 in Hungary

open access: yesCompetitio, 2022
It is no exaggeration to say that the digital transformation can be seen as both a paradigm shifts and a real technological revolution (Perez, 2010, Mergel, et al., 2019).
Nikoletta Tóth-Kaszás   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Critiques of the circular economy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Ecology, 2021
AbstractThis paper presents a reasoned account of the critiques addressed to the circular economy and circular business models. These critiques claim that the circular economy has diffused limits, unclear theoretical grounds, and that its implementation faces structural obstacles.
Hervé Corvellec   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Digital age business model innovation for sustainability in University Industry Collaboration Model [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
This study aims to investigate a digitalization-related business model as a result from the university-SME collaboration. The SME of the case study (Preventos Informatics Ltd) specializes in water distribution systems in industrial scale, telemetry, and ...
Happonen Ari   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Circular economy (CE) research plays an important role in accelerating the CE transition globally and is an essential tool to contribute to climate change adaptation.
Elke Nijman-Ross   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the adoption of regenerative agricultural practices in Eastern Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Food security remains a challenge for Africa and regenerative agricultural practices can play an important role in building resilience while sustaining agricultural production and preserving diversity of ingredients and rich biodiversity.
Elisée Bahati Ntawuhiganayo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioplastics for a circular economy [PDF]

open access: yesNature Reviews Materials, 2022
Bioplastics - typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers - stand to contribute to more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin polymers are made from renewable or recycled raw materials. Carbon-neutral energy is used for production and products are reused or recycled at their end of life ...
Jan-Georg Rosenboom   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Stakeholder knowledge and perceptions of the circular economy in Ugandan cities

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Transitioning to a circular economy (CE) has been touted as the necessary paradigm shift to counterbalance the ever-increasing socio-economic metabolism in the face of global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth ...
Tom Geme   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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