Circular Business Models Developing a Sustainable Future /

• Main Author: Larsson, Mats (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Business logistics.; Sustainability Management.; Supply Chain Management.

This book explores the need to develop business strategies, organize and fund transformation projects and manage the transformation programme in order to further a circular economy. Circular Business Models outlines sustainable business models that can be used by companies to move transformation for...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Mankind vs. Reality
• 2 Development as a Process of Organization
• 3 The Author's Journey
• 4 The Circular Economy and Business Challenges
• 5 Complexity - The Tightly Woven Fabric of Society
• 6 Could Resource Shortages Cause Problems?
• 7 Multiple Helix Collaboration for the Development of a Circular Economy
• 8 Managing Change
• 9 Local Production and Distribution Systems
• 10 Sharing and Extended Use
• 11 Standardization and modularization
• 12 Recycling and Upcycling
• 13 Biologically based materials
• 14 Transportation systems, renewable fuels and energy efficiency
• 15 Construction, Infrastructure, and Digital Technologies
• 16 Life Sustaining Resources and Technologies
• 17 Financial Innovations
• 18 General Purpose Technologies as the Basis for Transformation
• 19 Risks and Logical Fallacies
• 20 Planning The Way Forward and Reality Check
• 21 Paradigms, at Last
• Epilogue.