The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy. These perspectives span an array of subjects including economics, environmental policymaking, sociology, environmental science, environmental and industrial engineering, management, international development, and human geography.
A fundamental underpinning of the Handbook is that it takes account of a wide range of sectors, as well as geographical perspectives that incorporate both a Global North and Global South world context. This approach is crucial because it is only within such a holistic perspective that the circular economy concept can truly be examined. In addition, these issues are examined both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective, using real-world case studies for illustration.
Given its wide subject, sectoral, and geographical areas of focus, the Handbook should be of value not only for those undertaking research in the field of circular economy, but also stakeholders involved in policymaking, as well as decision-making on the front line.
The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy, including economics, environmental policymaking, sociology, environmental science, environmental and industrial engineering, management, international development, and human geography.
1. Introduction: examining the concept of the circular economy Part 1:
The need for and challenges surrounding circularity
2. Natural resources.
Consumption, pollution, and health risks: developed versus developing
economies
3. Consumption and materialism: from acquisitive to responsible
materialism
4. Embedding more circular approaches to the management of
resources
5. Environmental justice, waste management, and the circular
economy: global perspectives
6. Resource consumption and the associated
health risks: a brief overview
7. The Sustainable Development Goals as
drivers for change
8. Triggers for industrial symbiosis: lessons learnt from
twenty-five case studies
9. Bought today, gone tomorrow? From linear to
circular consumption Part 2: Measuring and implementing circularity
10.
Africa juxtaposition between rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and the
need to preserve traditional circular systems
11. Circular start-ups: five
business model archetypes as frontrunners of circular disruption
12.
Ecodesign and circular design of products: concepts, assessment, and
strategies
13. Approaches to monitoring and evaluation of resource recovery
from waste towards a circular economy
14. Complexity and the circular
economy: systems approaches for change
15. Circular economy meso-level
planning: an approach with distributed economies Part 3: Policy and
legislative considerations
16. The role of policy in creating a more circular
economy
17. Legal considerations for a circular economy
18. Economic and
trade considerations of circular economy approaches
19. Managing waste at the
national and local levels Part 4: Sharing economies and capacity building
20.
Making sustainable markets and the forming of a circular economy
21. Becoming
eco-literate through experiential encounters with food
22. Implementing low
carbon strategies analysis of barriers
23. Overcoming financial, social,
and environmental challenges faced by cooperatives: case studies from the
State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
24. The informal recycling sector
environmental criminals or the future of the circular economy?
25. Refugee
camps and circular economy in Palestinian West Bank: challenges and
opportunities Part 5: Recycling
26. Exploring household dynamics for
recycling in the UK: a case study of recycling habits in Greater London
27.
Circular start-ups: five business model archetypes as frontrunners of
circular disruption
28. Enablers and barriers for industrial symbiosis:
lessons learnt from twenty-five case studies
29. A proposed approach for a
solid waste collection system in an African rural town: a case study from
Kenya
30. Circular economy opportunities in Africa emerging sectors and
missing narratives Part 6: Reuse
31. Modular Smartphones and Circular Design
Strategies: The Shape of Things to Come?
32. The Use of By-Products in New
Materials
33. Using circular supply chains to create community biogas
34.
Circular economy initiatives in India: a case study approach Part 7: Use of
technologies
35. Product-service system business models and circular economy
36. Circular business models in selected geographical contexts: an analysis
of two cases
37. Implementing low carbon strategies in SMEs: auditing
strategies
38. Circular economy principles in Africa: the case of the
off-grid solar in Kenya
39. Circular supply chain: emerging opportunities and
challenges
40. Conclusion: closing thoughts
Terry Tudor has worked in the fields of sustainable waste management and circular economy since 2003. This work has been undertaken both in the United Kingdom as well as abroad (e.g., in Italy, Brazil, Barbados, and India). He works as a consultant. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Northampton, UK.
Cleber JC. Dutra is an associate professor and research fellow in sustainability management at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). He has been examining approaches to sustainability through multiparadigmatic perspectives as a mechanism to overcome its understanding shortcomings. His main areas of interest include innovation, sustainability, circular economy, multiorganisational programmes, resource efficiency, pro-environmental/sustainable behaviour, and CSR.
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