Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse

Kern, Florian; Sharp, Helen; Hachmann, Samyra

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2020.08.008

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“…This business-to-business relationship that stakeholder four develops may lack a collaborative aspect at a system level; as the interviewee stated, "the interest is economic and not collaborative." Despite manufacturing machines capable of cleaning and giving a second use to different materials such as aggregates, scrap metal, and car waste, having a competitive relationship rather than collaborative may limit transitioning to a CE [83]. Furthermore, the organisational transition towards a circular business model innovation through an IS perspective might help advance the CE [13,80].…”

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Stakeholder Perspectives in Transitioning to a Local Circular Economy: a Case Study in Spain

2021

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The circular economy (CE) is now more imperative than ever due to several shortcomings humanity faces due to global economic disruptions. The CE might help initiate a virtuous circle whereby waste materials would be turned into resources for other companies to create closed-loop systems. However, the CE remains a niche paradigm embraced by only a small number of companies in some areas of the world. Some authors have argued that it is essential to encourage stakeholders at different implementation levels of a CE to increase the uptake of this new model among companies, and stakeholders may provide the required framework for the shift towards a circular model. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to answer the following research question: how can the transition towards the CE be accelerated from a ‘stakeholders’ perspective? The study was undertaken in the Spanish region of Basque Country, where a CE strategy is already in place at the regional level, and some companies are already delivering circular solutions. This approach was selected to help understand the lack of widespread adoption of CE initiatives in a local system despite having a regional CE strategy. Data were collected from respondents from various stakeholders and also from desk research to ensure their reliability. The results showed the relevance of understanding how stakeholders can help speed up the transition by proactively exploring new ways to create novel conditions to work together with a broad pool of stakeholders to deepen and scale up the CE implementation.

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Stakeholder Perspectives in Transitioning to a Local Circular Economy: a Case Study in Spain

2021

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“…In the context of socio-ecological and energy transition, many countries present public policies promoting the circular economy as levers for change and evolution of practices and technical, economic and organizational models. There is a strong challenge in producing new coordination and new modes of national and international governance (Kern, Sharp, and Hachmann 2020). But states are also launching national circular economy plans that are implemented at the local level.…”

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Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges

Bourdin

Galliano

Gonçalves

2021

European Planning Studies

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The circular economy is a new economic model that breaks with the linear model. It is more respectful of the environment and is often presented as an opportunity for sustainable development. From a literature review on this issue, the objective of our article is to focus on the territorial dimension of the circular economy. We present the main issues for future research on territorial innovations, territorial embeddedness, resources and sustainability of circularity.

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“…The term "Circular Economy", focused on the closeness of production-consumption chains, is officially used in the EU (Kern et al, 2020) as well as in the scientific and expert discourse (Kirchherr et al, 2018;Marino & Pariso, 2020). In general, a circular economy is defined as the economy that reduces consumption of resources and generation of waste as well as recycling and processing of waste in the processes of production, distribution, and consumption (United Nations Environment, 2011).…”

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“…The Circular Economy Action Plan was adopted in 2020 as the practical implementation of the Green New Deal, aimed to achieve carbon-neutral sustainable, free from toxic substances, and completely closed economy by 2050. Thereby, the EU created a single strategy for moving towards a sustainable economic system and a set of rules for building a circular economy (Kern et al, 2020). At the supranational level, an integral policy of building a circular economy is being developed, covering a wide range of areas (industry, waste disposal and processing, chemicals, plastic, packaging, resource efficiency, environmental safety, and many others), which is enforced by the legal framework, special and sectoral strategies (Iacovidou & Gerassimidou, 2018;Matthews et al, 2021;Fidélis et al, 2021;Hughes, 2017).…”

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Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

Polyakov

Khanin

Bilozubenko

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Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The increased final consumption exacerbates the problem of the scarcity of natural resources and leads to environmental pollution. The concept of circular economy, which implies the formation of closed-loop chains of production and consumption with maximum regeneration and recycling of materials, is considered as an alternative to the firmly established “linear economy” (take-make-dispose). As a part of sustainable development strategy, the European Union adopted a general policy on the transition to a circular economy. However, for objective reasons, such transition is quite uneven at the level of member countries, which adversely affects the total progress. Therefore, the need arises to assess the positions of individual countries and identify major reasons for the uneven transition to support the countries that are lagging.The goal of the study is to identify the factors of uneven progress of the EU countries towards a circular economy. For that reason, a set of empirical data (20 indicators) has been compiled; cluster, classification, and parametric analyses have been conducted. As a result, three clusters of the EU countries have been obtained and six indicators, included into combinations that make all clusters different, have been identified. These indicators can be interpreted as the key factors contributing to the uneven progress of the EU countries towards a circular economy. The difference in harmonic means by clusters allowed quantitatively estimating a “circular gap”. It is of practical value for the EU policy aimed at bridging the gaps between member countries during the transition to a circular economy.

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Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse

Cited by 47 publications

References 37 publications

Stakeholder Perspectives in Transitioning to a Local Circular Economy: a Case Study in Spain

Stakeholder Perspectives in Transitioning to a Local Circular Economy: a Case Study in Spain

Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges

Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

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