Circular Economy and Economic Development in the European Union: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues; Mourão, Paulo Reis

doi:10.3390/su12187767

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“…In other words, the literature review is supported by the main outcomes from the bibliometric approach. Other studies have carried out a similar approach for the agricultural sector [24,25], food marketing [6], circular economy [26] and organizations management [27].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food and Consumer Attitude(s): An Overview of the Most Relevant Documents

Martinho

2021

Agriculture

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Food markets have, at least, two dimensions. One is related to supply, where food marketing, for example, plays a determinant role, namely to promote healthy and balanced consumption. The other dimension is associated with demand, where it is important to understand and bring insights about consumer attitudes, because they have implications on patterns of food consumption. In this framework, the main objective of this research is to suggest an alternative approach for conducting systematic reviews based on bibliometric analysis and implement it on topics about food and consumer attitudes. For this purpose, the most important bibliographic items (authors, sources, organizations, countries and documents) were identified and later the most relevant documents were reviewed. In addition, 908 documents were selected on 11 December 2020 from the Web of Science Core Collection, for the topics “food” and “consumer attitude*”, and analyzed through bibliometric analysis with the support of the VOSviewer and Gephi software. These documents were also benchmarked with those available in the Scopus scientific database. The approach presented here made it possible to highlight the main insights from the scientific literature related to consumer attitudes to food and bring about further contributions to a literature review supported by bibliometric analysis. This proposal may be known as MB2MBA2 (Methodology Based on Benchmarking of Metadata, from scientific databases, and Bibliometric Assessment and Analysis). This systematic review highlights that organic foods, food neophobia, climate change, marketing strategies and interrelationships between motivations–consumer attitudes–perceptions–purchase intentions–purchase decisions (MAPID) deserved special attention. In addition, MAPID interactions are impacted, among other dimensions, by labelling, branding and trust in the information provided. Future research should further address impacts on consumer attitudes towards food, such as those related to climate-smart agriculture, food 4.0, food security and protection, and climate change and malnutrition.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food and Consumer Attitude(s): An Overview of the Most Relevant Documents

Martinho

2021

Agriculture

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“…Despite some recognition of the potentials of IS as a sustainable concept in some of the development documents of Slovenia, IS is not included in the strategic spatial development documents as a direction or a measure for the efficient management of the resources on which Slovenia is dependent. Although both IS and/or UrS are already recognized as contemporary concepts in Europe [78][79][80], it is unfortunately not yet so in Slovenia. The concept of UrS is missing completely.…”

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Urban Strategies Enabling Industrial and Urban Symbiosis: The Case of Slovenia

2021

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Industrial symbiosis (IS) recognizes the exchange of waste resources and by-products between companies that do not normally cooperate in resource exchange; on the other hand, urban symbiosis (UrS) recognizes the use of solid waste in cities as input sources for industries that do not normally accept these sources. It is difficult to realize both in a pre-planned process, and there are few successful initiatives based on the exchange of waste and energy. The main objective of this research is to find out whether there are urban strategies that support the emergence, existence and development of IS and/or UrS in Slovenia. National documents, networks, projects, programs, and national statistical sources were examined. The Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (ISUSD) for eleven cities and municipalities were reviewed against ten selected indicators. The main findings are that there is intense awareness raising on IS and UrS, and adequate overall legislative support, aligned with EU legislation. Nevertheless, there has been surprisingly less waste conversion to energy recovery since 2010. The reuse of by-products either for energy or new products is non-existent or negligible. Selected main urban strategies for cities in Slovenia are far from setting more concrete guidelines for the development of IS and/or UrS. In the future, more successful integration of IS and UrS is possible in the context of regeneration development of brownfield sites.

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“…Then, a bibliometric analysis was performed using VOSViewer (1.6.16). A bibliometric analysis can highlight several interesting information available in the literature, supporting a structured review [35]. The bibliometric mapping approach is data-driven and relies heavily on computer algorithms and visualization techniques.…”

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confidence: 97%

Circular Economy for a Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain: A Review for Current Trends and Future Pathways

2021

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The current agri-food supply chain is affected by different problems such as food loss and waste generation along the supply chain, and the circular economy offers a possibility to enhance and optimize the production and consumption to seek to a sustainable paradigm. The circular economy can be a winning approach to intervene and moderate the impacts generated in the agri-food sector, proposing actions and solutions to readmit wastes and by-products in the productive chain. The aim of this work was to perform a literature review coupled with a bibliometric analysis, using VOSviewer software, on the circular economy model in the agri-food sector, with particular relevance to the reuse and valorisation of wastes and by-products. Results showed that the topic is of particular relevance in the scientific community, and the concept is continuously evolving. Europe plays a leading role in the research, thanks to the involvement of the Member States, policy makers and stakeholders. Nevertheless, some aspects such as the development of a new economic circular model and some limitations of the current policies deserve further investigation.

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Circular Economy and Economic Development in the European Union: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Cited by 33 publications

References 150 publications

Food and Consumer Attitude(s): An Overview of the Most Relevant Documents

Food and Consumer Attitude(s): An Overview of the Most Relevant Documents

Urban Strategies Enabling Industrial and Urban Symbiosis: The Case of Slovenia

Circular Economy for a Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain: A Review for Current Trends and Future Pathways

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