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oapen-20.500.12657-852682023-11-21T02:29:38Z The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy Lehtimäki, Hanna Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena Jokinen, Ari Jokinen, Pekka Artificial intelligence;Circular economy;Consumption;Environmental studies;Sustainability;Sustainability policy;Sustainability transitions;Sustainable business;Sustainable consumption bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure & design::AMCR Environmentally-friendly architecture & design bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJJ Business & the environment, ‘Green’ approaches to business bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy. With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business models, management and organisation, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate sustainability transitions. As a unique value to the reader, the book brings together public policy and private business perspectives to address the circular economy as a systemic change. Its theoretical and practical perspectives are coupled with real-world case studies from Finland, Italy, China, India, Nigeria, and others to provide tangible insights on catalysing the circular economy across organisational, hierarchical, and disciplinary boundaries. With its broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse scope, this handbook will be a valuable tool for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in the fields of circular economy, sustainability transitions, environmental studies, business, and the social sciences more broadly. 2023-11-20T15:20:03Z 2023-11-20T15:20:03Z 2024 book 9781032212449 9781003267492 9781032212456 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85268 eng Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000971415.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003267492 10.4324/9781003267492 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781032212449 9781003267492 9781032212456 Routledge 642 open access
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This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy.
With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business models, management and organisation, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate sustainability transitions. As a unique value to the reader, the book brings together public policy and private business perspectives to address the circular economy as a systemic change. Its theoretical and practical perspectives are coupled with real-world case studies from Finland, Italy, China, India, Nigeria, and others to provide tangible insights on catalysing the circular economy across organisational, hierarchical, and disciplinary boundaries.
With its broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse scope, this handbook will be a valuable tool for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in the fields of circular economy, sustainability transitions, environmental studies, business, and the social sciences more broadly.
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