Investigating public awareness on circular economy in western China: A case of Urumqi Midong

Guo, Bin; Geng, Yong; Sterr, Thomas; Zhu, Qinghua; Liu, Yaxuan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.063

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“…For example, Armstrong et al [124,125] investigated the reasons for the limited diffusion of particular solutions associated with positive or negative perceptions. Other questions addressed the level of public awareness of specific solutions [127], the role of specific features in forming such perceptions [126], consumer preferences [121], and how consumers construe the solution [122]. Besides perceptions, some of the literature has also tried to provide consumer typologies that have different answers to circular solutions [128,129], and the incentives to push for acceptance and adoption [130,131].…”

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Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review

2018

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A circular economy (CE) aims at decoupling value creation from waste generation and resource use by radically transforming production and consumption systems. Recent reviews on the topic of the circular economy have indicated that cultural barriers are a significant factor hindering the diffusion of so-called 'circular' business models, particularly the lack of consumer-or user-acceptance. However, none of them has provided an overview of the existing literature addressing such issues that can help academics and practitioners better understand consumption considerations when addressing the circular economy. Motivated by these observations, this paper presents the results of a literature review that summarises and discusses insights from 111 articles in terms of the problem area, theoretical approaches, methods, and tools that have been used to collect and analyse data, the main issues, and identified research gaps. The results show that most of the existing scientific work on the circular economy and circular solutions addressing consumption has focussed on identifying factors that drive or hinder the consumption of circular solutions. A smaller but expanding set of articles has focussed on offering insights into the nature, meaning, and dynamics of consumption in the context of the circular economy. According to this set of articles, consumption in the circular economy is anonymous, connected, political, uncertain, and based on multiple values, not only utility. A smaller set of papers has explored the integration of user and consumer perspectives into design processes. Although these contributions are relevant, opportunities for further research are still open, particularly regarding socio-material and cultural aspects of consumption in the context of the circular economy, and the role of digitalisation. In addition, more work could be done regarding strategies to foster not only acceptance but also the adoption and diffusion of the circular economy. Based on the findings of this literature review, some ideas for a research agenda on the issue of consumption in the circular economy are outlined.

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Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review

2018

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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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“…Bocken et al's [67] recent study of Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 firms' uptake of the CE concept shows that while the CE is present in business, academia, and policy, more radical CE business models are not considered by large companies. Authors therefore propose governments to actively promote public participation in and generate preferences for green products [13,15,16,44,57,69,74]. This is to achieve higher recycling rates and general conservation of resources [59,71] as part of a conservation-oriented society [16], as well as allow firms to monetize CE activities by asking for higher prices [68] or sell remanufactured products [70].…”

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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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“…Accordingly, lack of involvement and awareness of citizen is the most critical problem (Madhukumar & Ramesh, 2012). This is the same problem encountered in the study Guo, Geng, Sterr, Zhu, and Liu (2017) that residents are still reluctant to take responsibility and lack the knowledge about community activities.…”

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E-Participation: Community Involvement Level Related to Different Services of Local Government Unit Officials

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Purpose -This paper seeks to answer the level and extent of involvement of the community in the government services to explore how information technologies may work to improve the services to the citizens as an input to egovernance initiative.Method -The researchers conducted a series of activities for data gathering, such as interview, focus group discussion and survey. Questionnaires were used to collect data to support the rationality of the study. The study used the descriptive statistics from the gathered data to determine the needs of the community. Specifically, mean scores and standard deviation were computed from the results of different statements per category based on the survey questions. Regression analysis method was used to identify the factors affecting the involvement of the respondents related to the services from the LGU. ANOVA was also used to identify the differences among respondents' levels of involvement such as the age group, civil status, and educational attainment. 11Results -The findings provided justifications to identify factors affecting the involvement of the respondents in LGU services. It also indicated that they have the same level of involvement in terms of sex, civil status, and educational attainment. However, there is a positive association between community involvement and community respondent age group in terms of involvement level.Conclusion -The study showed that there is lack of information dissemination about different services, programs, activities and projects in the community that cause low community involvement. Accessibility to technology of the respondents, dissemination of information to respondents through the web, level of public web applicability of the respondents, and level of assessment on incident report in the community of the respondents are the factors affecting the involvement of the respondents in the different services of local government officials which lead as a basis for creating the e-participation website for local government unit.Recommendations -The use of ICT (information and communication technology) in the Local Government must be applied in a bigger community or group in a barangay; on the other hand, local municipalities must implement the proposed system or e-participation portal to identify the benefits from the delivery of services of the officials.Research Implications -The development of the government services such as e-participation initiatives inevitably need to take into consideration the inclusion of proper information dissemination, crafting of new models of policy formulation, and the formulation of alternative approaches for connecting people to the political process though the ICT. Motivations for community involvement are also important. Future efforts could stress on the community their involvement in changing the local conditions they are not pleased with. Uses of this finding in program/policy development could take a variety of forms.

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Investigating public awareness on circular economy in western China: A case of Urumqi Midong

Cited by 75 publications

References 23 publications

Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review

Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review

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

E-Participation: Community Involvement Level Related to Different Services of Local Government Unit Officials

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