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.
Volume 1, Circular Economy and Sustainability: Management and Policy, discusses the content of circular economy principles and how they can be realized in the fields of economy, management, and policy. It gives an outline of the current status and perception of circular economy at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels to provide a better understanding of its role in achieving sustainability.
Volume 2, Circular Economy and Sustainability: Environmental Engineering, presents various technological and developmental tools that emphasize the implementation of these principles in practice (micro-level). It demonstrates the necessity to establish a fundamental connection between sustainable engineering and circular economy.
1. Circular Economy and Sustainability - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page i 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. Preface - p. Page ix 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page xi 9. List of Tables - p. Page xii 10. Chapter 1 : A review of circular economy literature through a threefold level framework and engineering-management approach - p. Page xii 11. Chapter 2 : Steering the circular economy: A new role for Adam Smith's invisible hand - p. Page xii 12. Chapter 3 : A systems thinking perspective for the circular economy - p. Page 31 13. Chapter 4 : Conceptualizing the circular bioeconomy - p. Page 51 14. Chapter 5 : Circular economy and financial performances of European SMEs - p. Page 64 15. Chapter 6 : History and evolution of the circular economy and circular economy business models - p. Page 85 16. Chapter 7 : A triple-level framework to evaluate the level of involvement of firms in the circular economy (CE) - p. Page 101 17. Chapter 8 : Exploring resource-service systems—Beyond product-service systems and toward configurations of circular strategies, business models, and actors - p. Page 121 18. Chapter 9 : Complementing circular economy with life cycle assessment: Deeper understanding of economic, social, and environmental sustainability - p. Page 142 19. Chapter 10 : Life cycle costing as a way to include economic sustainability in the circular economy. New perspectives from resource-intensive industries - p. Page 157 20. Chapter 11 : Circular economy during project life cycle - p. Page 174 21. Chapter 12 : The role of ecodesign in the circular economy - p. Page 185 22. Chapter 13 : Sustainable finance and circular economy - p. Page 205 23. 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 - p. Page 225 24. Chapter 15 : A framework to integrate circular economy principles into public procurement - p. Page 269 25. 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 - p. Page 289 26. Chapter 17 : Awareness-led social lab on circular economy in Switzerland: Exploring serendipity - p. Page 305 27. Chapter 18 : How circular design at signify brings economic, environmental, and social value - p. Page 330 28. Chapter 19 : Circular economy and urbanism: A sustainable approach to the growth of cities - p. Page 343 29. Chapter 20 : Overview: The smart sustainable city initiatives and the circular economy - p. Page 362 30. Chapter 21 : Transitioning into circular food consumption practices: An analytical framework - p. Page 381 31. Chapter 22 : From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes - p. Page 404 32. Chapter 23 : “Closing two loops”—The importance of energy recovery in the “closing the loop” approach - p. Page 424 33. Chapter 24 : Investigation of the sustainable waste transportation in urban and rural municipalities—Key environmental parameters of the collection vehicles use - p. Page 452 34. Chapter 25 : New age zero waste sustainable apparel industry: Design practices, innovative approaches, and technological intervention - p. Page 484 35. 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 - p. Page 503 36. Chapter 27 : The contemporary research on circular economy in industry - p. Page 520 37. Chapter 28 : The role of collaborative leadership in the circular economy - p. Page 531 38. Chapter 29 : Issues, interventions, and innovations in the cement industry: A comparative trajectory analysis of eco-cement transitions in the Netherlands, China, and Japan - p. Page 542 39. Chapter 30 : The potential for a circular economy in the nonroad mobile machinery industry—The case of Linde Material Handling GmbH - p. Page 564 40. Chapter 31 : VALUABLE—Transition of automotive supply chain to the circular economy - p. Page 583 41. Chapter 32 : Circular economy in the cosmetics industry: An assessment of sustainability reporting - p. Page 607 42. Chapter 33 : Company perspectives on sustainable circular economy development in the South Karelia and Kymenlaakso regions and in the publishing sector in Finland - p. Page 617 43. Chapter 34 : Approaches to the circular economy in Armenia and Portugal: An overview - p. Page 645 44. Index - p. Page 660
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.
Volume 1, Circular Economy and Sustainability: Management and Policy, discusses the content of circular economy principles and how they can be realized in the fields of economy, management, and policy. It gives an outline of the current status and perception of circular economy at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels to provide a better understanding of its role in achieving sustainability.
Volume 2, Circular Economy and Sustainability: Environmental Engineering, presents various technological and developmental tools that emphasize the implementation of these principles in practice (micro-level). It demonstrates the necessity to establish a fundamental connection between sustainable engineering and circular economy.
1. Circular Economy and Sustainability - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page i 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. Preface - p. Page ix 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page xi 9. List of Tables - p. Page xii 10. Chapter 1 : A review of circular economy literature through a threefold level framework and engineering-management approach - p. Page xii 11. Chapter 2 : Steering the circular economy: A new role for Adam Smith's invisible hand - p. Page xii 12. Chapter 3 : A systems thinking perspective for the circular economy - p. Page 31 13. Chapter 4 : Conceptualizing the circular bioeconomy - p. Page 51 14. Chapter 5 : Circular economy and financial performances of European SMEs - p. Page 64 15. Chapter 6 : History and evolution of the circular economy and circular economy business models - p. Page 85 16. Chapter 7 : A triple-level framework to evaluate the level of involvement of firms in the circular economy (CE) - p. Page 101 17. Chapter 8 : Exploring resource-service systems—Beyond product-service systems and toward configurations of circular strategies, business models, and actors - p. Page 121 18. Chapter 9 : Complementing circular economy with life cycle assessment: Deeper understanding of economic, social, and environmental sustainability - p. Page 142 19. Chapter 10 : Life cycle costing as a way to include economic sustainability in the circular economy. New perspectives from resource-intensive industries - p. Page 157 20. Chapter 11 : Circular economy during project life cycle - p. Page 174 21. Chapter 12 : The role of ecodesign in the circular economy - p. Page 185 22. Chapter 13 : Sustainable finance and circular economy - p. Page 205 23. 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 - p. Page 225 24. Chapter 15 : A framework to integrate circular economy principles into public procurement - p. Page 269 25. 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 - p. Page 289 26. Chapter 17 : Awareness-led social lab on circular economy in Switzerland: Exploring serendipity - p. Page 305 27. Chapter 18 : How circular design at signify brings economic, environmental, and social value - p. Page 330 28. Chapter 19 : Circular economy and urbanism: A sustainable approach to the growth of cities - p. Page 343 29. Chapter 20 : Overview: The smart sustainable city initiatives and the circular economy - p. Page 362 30. Chapter 21 : Transitioning into circular food consumption practices: An analytical framework - p. Page 381 31. Chapter 22 : From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes - p. Page 404 32. Chapter 23 : “Closing two loops”—The importance of energy recovery in the “closing the loop” approach - p. Page 424 33. Chapter 24 : Investigation of the sustainable waste transportation in urban and rural municipalities—Key environmental parameters of the collection vehicles use - p. Page 452 34. Chapter 25 : New age zero waste sustainable apparel industry: Design practices, innovative approaches, and technological intervention - p. Page 484 35. 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 - p. Page 503 36. Chapter 27 : The contemporary research on circular economy in industry - p. Page 520 37. Chapter 28 : The role of collaborative leadership in the circular economy - p. Page 531 38. Chapter 29 : Issues, interventions, and innovations in the cement industry: A comparative trajectory analysis of eco-cement transitions in the Netherlands, China, and Japan - p. Page 542 39. Chapter 30 : The potential for a circular economy in the nonroad mobile machinery industry—The case of Linde Material Handling GmbH - p. Page 564 40. Chapter 31 : VALUABLE—Transition of automotive supply chain to the circular economy - p. Page 583 41. Chapter 32 : Circular economy in the cosmetics industry: An assessment of sustainability reporting - p. Page 607 42. Chapter 33 : Company perspectives on sustainable circular economy development in the South Karelia and Kymenlaakso regions and in the publishing sector in Finland - p. Page 617 43. Chapter 34 : Approaches to the circular economy in Armenia and Portugal: An overview - p. Page 645 44. Index - p. Page 660
