Circular Economy Indicators as a Supporting Tool for European Regional Development Policies

Avdiushchenko, Anna; Zając, Paweł

doi:10.3390/su11113025

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“…A significant role may be played by the creation of a specialized information base, which will provide all market participants with authentic information on dynamic changes in this area. Formulation of multiplicative (aggregate) coefficient which may be useful for reflection of relations between the discovered indexes with the assignment of weighting coefficients may be another organizational and economic mechanism contributing in the development of BF production in Russia [195,196].…”

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Biofuel Application as a Factor of Sustainable Development Ensuring: The Case of Russia

Титова

2019

Energies

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Diffusion of the biofuels (BF) using is justified by opening up the opportunities for obtaining fuel and energy from previously inaccessible sources and by the existence of energy-deficient regions, in particular in Russia. Works of different scientists on the problems of creating and using BF were the methodological basis of this study. Information on the state and prospects of the development of renewable energy sources in Russian regions was collected from regulatory documents and was obtained by employing a questionnaire survey. For the study of the collected materials, the different methods of comparative analysis, and the methods of expert assessments were used. The results of the Status-Quo analysis of BF production in Russia have shown that the creation of BF performed relatively successfully. However, there are many more perspectives, connected with expanding the utilization of the different raw materials. Also, the analysis of organizational and economic mechanisms applied for production of BF and the obtained data on several organizations-producers allowed for proposing six indexes for the assessment of the BF production effectiveness. It is suggested that BF production in Russia will contribute to the sustainable development of a number of the country's regions in the near future.Energies 2019, 12, 3948 2 of 30 impact of permanent anthropogenic factors has required the taking of appropriate measures in this field both at the federal and regional levels. In particular, the accumulation of industrial, agricultural, and household wastes is becoming an essential incentive for the development of innovative activities aiming at the production of biofuel (BF). According to the existing data [3], the resource potential of recyclable organic waste biomass, including solid household wastes and sediments of wastewaters reaches 13,490.26 tons of coal equivalent (TCE) per year in Russia. This study led both at the federal level and in particular regions which have significant differences in terms of economic, geographic, and climatic conditions. According to pessimistic forecasts, the share of green energy in the Russian economy will arrive at 3-5% by 2035, according to positive ones, it will be equal to 8-10%. The proposed share of BF in the production of electric and heat energy with targeted management could be about 2-3% [4].Different geographic, climatic, economic, and other conditions in regions of Russia necessitate solving several scientific problems for optimization of the existing regional programs for the provision of sustainable development and determination of the role of REn and BF production in them.Therefore, the progress in BF production achieved in some leading countries has become a significant factor which causes a positive impact on the sustainable development of their economies. This gives rise to the suggestion that Russia has some conditions for a more extensive application of REn, in particular, for BF production and use. Correspondingly, this article characterizes some general trends of B...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Biofuel Application as a Factor of Sustainable Development Ensuring: The Case of Russia

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2019

Energies

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“…In the third place, other CE measurement initiatives were studied in the search for metrics that could be incorporated to, and are currently missing from, the MFCE. While some work has already been done regarding the development of indicators to quantify the CE [11][12][13], macro-level assessment frameworks are not common outside of China [13,14], and in most cases are still at the development and/or proposal stage. In this regard, apart from China's national CE indicator system [15], we took into consideration three monitoring framework proposals at the national level in the EU (France, Spain, and the Netherlands) [16][17][18], and a proposal for tracking CE progress at the regional level in Poland [14].…”

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“…In this respect, it is worth establishing a contrast with other initiatives of CE assessment schemes, such as the framework developed in China [15], and the proposals issued in France [16], Spain [17], the Netherlands [18], and, at the regional level, in Poland [14].…”

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“…Finally, the regional proposal for Poland includes, in addition to metrics related to zero-waste, eco-efficiency, low-carbon, and eco-innovation, a set of socio-economic indicators that are intended to capture different dimensions of prosperity (or lack of it) that can be affected by (or interfere with) the transition to CE (e.g., average life expectancy, unemployment rate, at-risk-of-poverty rate, households with PC/connection to internet, urbanization rates) [14].…”

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“…The general lack of indicators on the socio-economic implications of the shift towards CE [12,14] is also noticeable in the MFCE. The role of citizens is present only through the amount of waste generated by their consumption, while the only essentially social variable measured is employment in "circular economy sectors", disregarding the net effects on total employment and the working conditions of the jobs involved (this discussion will be taken up in depth in the fifth section).…”

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Deza

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Water and wastewater sector actively participates in circular economy (CE) transition; however, there is no official CE monitoring framework to measure the level of progress toward the CE model in this sector. The paper presents a set of environmental indicators that could support water and wastewater treatment companies in the assessment of CE implementation. CE indicators were grouped into six areas of CE implementation in this sector: reduction—prevention of wastewater generation; reclamation (removal)—contamination removal from water and wastewater; reuse—water reuse for nonpotable usage; recycling—water reuse for potable usage; recovery—recovery of raw materials and energy from water‐based waste; and rethink—rethinking use of raw materials. The following indicators were proposed in specific CE areas: reduction—tap water consumption reduction, wastewater generation reduction, waste reduction, sewage sludge generation reduction, and water footprint; reclamation—pollutants removal from water and pollutants removal from wastewater; reuse—water reuse from wastewater for nonpotable usage and recycling of technical water for nonpotable usage; recycling—water reuse from wastewater for potable usage; recovery—raw materials recovery, bio‐based fertilizers, energy recovery, processing of sewage sludge, composting of sewage sludge, biogas production, and processing of ashes; and rethink—CE technologies, life cycle assessment reports, CE products, and CE business models, industrial symbiosis, and carbon footprint. The proposed CE indicators can be used not only to assess the level of transformation toward CE but also to support further policies on strategic CE initiatives in organizations operating in the water and wastewater sector. Moreover, they could support the strategic planning of further CE initiatives in organizations. The proposed list of CE indicators is not closed because in the coming years, more and more CE solutions are expected to be developed and implemented in water and wastewater treatment plant companies, involving also economic and social aspects, in order to support the sustainable development.

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Circular Economy Indicators as a Supporting Tool for European Regional Development Policies

Cited by 91 publications

References 57 publications

Biofuel Application as a Factor of Sustainable Development Ensuring: The Case of Russia

Biofuel Application as a Factor of Sustainable Development Ensuring: The Case of Russia

Decoupling or ‘Decaffing’? The Underlying Conceptualization of Circular Economy in the European Union Monitoring Framework

Environmental Indicators for Assessment of Circular Economy (CE) Implementation in the Water and Wastewater Sector

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