Contemporary Problems of Well-being and How We Got Here

Grin, John

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“…To understand why this is the dominant framing of the plastic problem, it is important to acknowledge that the Netherlands is a key player in the global plastic industry with hundreds of producing firms in the sector generating a turnover of 17.5 billion euros (2% of Dutch GDP) in 2014 and exporting 83% of their production [114]. The powerful oil sector has also strongly pushed for an increased production of plastics as the biggest future use of fossil fuels, now that their use as energy sources must be reduced to comply with climate change commitments [84,115].…”

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Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis

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The circular economy (CE) has become a key sustainability discourse in the last decade. The Netherlands seeks to become fully circular by 2050 and the EU has set ambitious circularity targets in its CE Action Plan of 2015. The plastics sector, in particular, has gained a lot of attention as it is a priority area of both the EU and Dutch CE policies. However, there has been little research on the different and often contested discourses, governance processes and policy mechanisms guiding the transition to a circular economy and society. This paper aims to fill these gaps by asking what circular discourses and policies are being promoted in the Netherlands and what sustainability implications and recommendations can be drawn from it. It does so through a mix of media analysis, policy analysis, semi-structured interviews, and surveys using Q-methodology. Results indicate a dominance of technocentric imaginaries, and a general lack of discussion on holistic, and transformative visions, which integrate the full social, political, and ecological implication of a circular future. To address those challenges, this research brings key policy insights and recommendations which can help both academics and practitioners better understand and implement the transition towards a sustainable circular plastics economy.

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Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis

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“…Women organizations like the NVvH intermediated between the energy companies and housewives. The NVvH had close connections to producers and communicated the experiences of housewives with the technologies back to them, increasing the receptivity of the target group (Grin 2018). The NVvH, however, stressed its impartial position in the battle between gas and electricity companies.…”

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Memory in energy transitions: individual agency through historical narratives in the energy transition to gas and electricity in the Dutch household

ten Berge

2023

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Authors adopting socio-technical frameworks to study energy transitions argue that individual behavioural change and the uptake of social and technological innovations on higher-level scales are both imperative for sustainability transitions to come about. However, the way individuals are embedded in the larger system has remained largely unclear. To better understand individual embedment in energy transitions, this paper enriches sustainability transition research with the insights of memory studies. During energy transitions, social actors that enact these transitions change their identity. A core premise of memory studies is that individual and collective remembering cannot do without each other in the constitution of identity. To illustrate the role of memory in energy transitions, this paper conducts a historical case study of the role of housewives in the energy transition to gas and electricity in the Dutch household. By adopting a narrative approach, the historical narratives across the Monthly Magazine of the Dutch Association for Housewives (NVvH), published between 1913 and 1942, are explored. The results show how the master narrative prescribed the guiding principles of the historical narratives that emerged in the energy discourse. However, as part of the flexible nature of memory, a varied ‘menu of stories’ came forward that enabled individuals to identify with different historical narratives, incorporating differing energy sources and drawing on the transformative nature of memory by imagining different energy futures. It is concluded that individual agency in energy transitions moves beyond choices of use and consumption. It rests in the individuals’ ability to identify with a historical narrative that adheres to the way the individual makes sense of the world.

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“…To understand why this is the dominant framing of the plastic problem, it is important to acknowledge that the Netherlands is a key player in the global plastic industry with hundreds of producing firms in the sector generating a turnover of 17.5 billion euros (2% of Dutch GDP) in 2014 and exporting 83% of their production (Grin, 2018). The powerful oil sector has also strongly pushed for an increased production of plastics as the biggest future use of fossil-fuels, now that their use as energy sources must be reduced to comply with climate change commitments.…”

Section: The Plastic Discourse In the Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Circular Economy to Circular Society

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Dit proefschrift werd (mede) mogelijk gemaakt met financiële steun van the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765198. ContentsChapter 1: Introduction 1.1 The sustainability challenges of the 21 st century 1.2 CE as a contested "umbrella paradigm" 1.3 Research gap: what on Earth is circular about an economy? 1.3.1 Biogeochemical cycles of the Earth 1.3.2 Ecosystem cycles 1.3.3 Resource cycles of materials and energy 1.3.4 Political cycles of power 1.3.5 Economic cycles of money and wealth 1.3.6 Knowledge cycles of technology, information, and education 1.3.7 Social cycles of care 1.3.8 Addressing all relevant cycles and flows with a holistic view of circularity 1.4 Research question 1.5 Thesis structure 1.5.1 Chapter 2: A typology of circular economy discourses: Navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm 1.5.2 Chapter 3: How circular is your tyre: experiences with extended producer responsibility from a circular economy perspective 1.5.3 Chapter 4: Analysing European Union circular economy policies: words versus actions 1.5.4 Chapter 5: Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis 1.5.5 Chapter 6: Sustainable Circular Cities: Analysing Urban Circular Economy Policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow and Copenhagen Chapter 2: A typology of circular economy discourses: Navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Methods 2.3 Results 2.3.1 Review of challenges and limitations of the circular economy 2.3.2 Timeline of circularity thinking 2.4 Synthesis and Reflection 2.4.1 Classification of circularity discourses according to their level of complexity 2.4.2 Development of a circularity discourse typology 2.5 Discussion 2.5.1 Conceptual implications of each circularity discourse type 2.5.2 Methodological implications and challenges of building a discourse typology 2.6 Conclusions Chapter 3: How circular is your tyre: experiences with extended producer responsibility from a circular economy perspective 3.

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Contemporary Problems of Well-being and How We Got Here

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis

Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis

Memory in energy transitions: individual agency through historical narratives in the energy transition to gas and electricity in the Dutch household

From Circular Economy to Circular Society

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