Effectiveness of the policy of circular economy in China: A DEA-based analysis for the period of 11th five-year-plan

Wu, Huaqing; Shi, Yan; Xia, Qiong; Zhu, Weidong

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.10.003

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“…Given its estimated population of 1.4 billion people in 2015, around 19% of the global figure (UN, 2014) known as a 'circular economy', the term was defined in legislation in China as a means of reducing, reusing and recycling activities conducted in the process of production, circulation and consumption (see also : Geng, et al, 2012;Xue, et al, 2010). The incorporation of a circular economy into the Outline of the 11th and 12 th Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development was an important step, allowing much greater support and focus on sustainability (Su, et al, 2013;Wu, et al, 2014) This inclusion is significant as the five year plan cycle forms the medium term focus for government policy in China. It is backed up by a series of statutes designed to promote cleaner production, pollution prevention and waste control.…”

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The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

Skene²,

2015

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There have long been calls from industry for guidance in implementing strategies for sustainable development. The Circular Economy represents the most recent attempt to conceptualize the integration of economic activity and environmental wellbeing in a sustainable way. This set of ideas has been adopted by China as the basis of their economic development (included in both the 11 th and the 12 th 'Five Year Plan'), escalating the concept in minds of western policymakers and NGOs. This paper traces the conceptualisations and origins of the Circular Economy, tracing its meanings and exploring its antecedents in economics and ecology, and discusses how the Circular Economy has been operationalised in business and policy. The paper finds that while the Circular Economy places emphasis on the redesign of processes and cycling of materials, which may contribute to more sustainable business models, it also encapsulates tensions and limitations. These include an absence of the social dimension inherent in sustainable development that limits its ethical dimensions, and some unintended consequences. This leads us to propose a revised definition of the Circular Economy as "an economic model wherein planning, resourcing, procurement, production and reprocessing are designed and managed, as both process and output, to maximize ecosystem functioning and human well-being".

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The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

Skene²,

2015

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“…Studies on the macro-level of cities [44][45][46], economic areas [47,48], and national and global industries, particularly logistics and waste [7,14,[49][50][51][52], were only included if they informed implementation on the meso-level, as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Other implementation studies focus on reviewing and informing policy [13,16,17,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67], specifically on product design for the CE [8,9,14,[64][65][66] as well as assessments of firms' [67,68], consumers' [69][70][71], and officials' [72] awareness of and attitudes towards the CE's concepts and its components. Two contributions are concerned with business model research [73,74].…”

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Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

2017

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Abstract:As the circular economy (CE) gains traction in literature and practice, several academic communities are opening up spaces that move away from the CE as a pure engineering concept. This systematic literature review (n = 77) analyses and discusses the fragmented body of knowledge on the meso-level of supply chains (SCs): (a) to find common ground that underpins the current implementation of the CE on this level; and (b) to identify drivers, inhibitors, and enablers from which CE SC configurations emerge. The review finds that there remain differences in CE definitions that result from claimed antecedents and scopes, resulting in distinct research streams. On the meso-level, eco-industrial parks, environmental SCs, and closed-loop SCs each face significant challenges. The latter potentially offers the largest environmental benefits but engenders radical changes for business models and exposes SCs to more risk. We firstly argue for moving away from using a prescriptive set of practices as definitions for the CE towards a set of overarching goals to allow for the inclusion of future practices and techniques. Secondly, we highlight that research going beyond the meso-level to consider the wider social and institutional environment is needed to solve current challenges.

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“…Our work allows us to draw an important conclusion that central and local government neglect resource utilization efficiency and environmental degradation when developing the economy. However, better resource utilization efficiency is the way to reduce conflicts between future development and resource burdens [62][63][64].…”

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An Improved Eco-Efficiency Analysis Framework Based on Slacks-Based Measure Method

Gao

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The level of sustainable development can be measured by eco-efficiency, which is a combination of economic and ecological performance. Utilizing the weighted sum of the improved proportions of the indicators as the objective function, this paper develops a proportional slacks-based measure model to assess eco-efficiency, in which the conventional inputs, and desirable and undesirable outputs are improved to different proportions along the elements of a given directional vector. Moreover, this paper presents a weighted proportional slacks-based measure model using the ranges as the divisors instead of the input and output values in the objective function. Finally, this paper presents an empirical analysis by applying proposed measure models with the data of 30 provinces in China in 2015. The empirical study results indicate the developed slacks-based measure models can be used in the assessment of eco-efficiency effectively and reasonably.

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Effectiveness of the policy of circular economy in China: A DEA-based analysis for the period of 11th five-year-plan

Cited by 213 publications

References 31 publications

The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

An Improved Eco-Efficiency Analysis Framework Based on Slacks-Based Measure Method

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