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Critiques of the circular economy [PDF]
Journal 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
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How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations [PDF]
Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020 AbstractCircular economy (CE) has become one of the most recent ways to address environmental sustainability. CE activities focus exclusively on one of three levels (macro level, meso level and micro level). The majority of CE research has focused on the macro and meso levels, whereas research on the micro level has been limited.
Maria Barreiro‐Gen, Rodrigo Lozano
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Bioplastics for a circular economy [PDF]
Nature 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
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, 2022 This contribution features the submission of one of the most important sustainability keywords to Springer's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. It provides a definition and an introduction to the circular economy (CE). It describes key policies and regulatory interventions that are meant to promote the CE agenda.
Camilleri, Mark Anthony +2 more
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The Green Blockchains of Circular Economy [PDF]
Electronics, 2021 Eco-friendly systems are necessitated nowadays, as the global consumption is increasing. A data-driven aspect is prominent, involving the Internet of Things (IoT) as the main enabler of a Circular Economy (CE). Henceforth, IoT equipment records the system’s functionality, with machine learning (ML) optimizing green computing operations.
George Hatzivasilis +4 more
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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2021 This work aims to describe and analyze the new socio economic phenomenon of waste-based circularity. To describe this process of recovery and transformation of waste, which represents the basis of circular economy, it is necessary to understand the complex articulation of the production of goods and materials, their yield and their capacity of ...
Senatore, Gianluca, Teofili, Simone
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, 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 environmental degradation and resource scarcity and depletion.
Heshmati, Almas, Mohsen Khezri
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, 2021 In this chapter, we attempt to discuss the economics of education according to the supply of massive open online courses (MOOCs) that deal with the circular economy (CE). The thread of reasoning starts from a brief historical reflection on the economics of education, pointing out that the major contributions in this field of study maintain the ...
Pérez Calle, Begoña +1 more
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Infrastructuring the Circular Economy [PDF]
Energies, 2020 The circular economy (CE), and its focus on the cycling and regeneration of resources, necessitates both a reconfiguration of existing infrastructures and the creation of new infrastructures to facilitate these flows. In urban settings, CE is being realized at multiple levels, from within individual organizations to across peri-urban landscapes.
André Nogueira +4 more
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Journal of Mathematics, 2022 In this paper, we investigate the long-time behavior for the nonautonomous semilinear second-order evolution equation ∂2u/∂t2−Δu−Δ∂u/∂t−Δ∂2u/∂t2=ft,ux,t−ρt+gt,x,inτ,∞×Ω with some hereditary characteristics, where Ω is an open-bounded domain of ℝNN≥3 with
Fang-hong Zhang, Xiao-hua Chen
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