The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-21244-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 642 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1384 g

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehtimäki, Hanna

Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena

Jokinen, Ari

Jokinen, Pekka

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition  Part 1: Contextualized understanding of catalysts  2. Catalysts for urban circularity  3. ‘ReCreating’ the construction sector for circularity  4. Catalysing the textile industry toward circular economy  5. A review of circular economy in Nigeria  6. Catalysts for transition to circular economy solutions in the bio-waste management sector in India  7. Plastic waste and a circular economy in China  8. The role of institutional environment in catalysing circular entrepreneurship  Part 2: Types of catalysts  9. Regulatory catalysts for circular economy  10. Mission-oriented policy as a catalyst for transition to a circular economy  11. Information as a catalyst for the circular economy  12. Design as a catalyst for the circular economy  13. Circular economy and finance  14. Core competences and core resources as catalysts for the design of circular business models  15. Artificial intelligence as a catalyst in the circular economy transition  16. Gamification as a catalyst to the circular economy  Part 3: Methodological approaches for catalysing  17. Mid-range transition arenas as catalysts in a circular economy  18. Design thinking tools to catalyse sustainable circular innovation  19. Scenario method for catalysing circularity and lowering emissions in the construction sector/real estate, Nigeria  20. Digital affordances for a circular economy transition  21. Accelerating the adoption of circular economy  22. Co-creation art to catalyse competencies for a sustainability transition  23. Utopias as catalysts for a sustainable circular economy  Part 4: Conceptual understanding of catalysing  24. Toward a typology of circular economy agency  25. Roles of virtual intermediaries in the transition to a circular economy  26. The assembling of circular consumption  27. Catalysing a circular transition in Brixton  28 ‘Regime-niche’ actors as catalysts in the transition to a circular economy  29. Catalysts in a sustainable circular economy

Über Autor(innen)

Hanna Lehtimäki is a professor of innovation management in the business school and a director of research for the Center for Sustainable Circular Economy at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research examines circular economy with theoretical frameworks on strategic management, organisation theory, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She and her research team advance transdisciplinary social sciences research and societal impact in sustainable circular economy transition.

Leena Aarikka-Stenroos is a professor of industrial management and a director of the Research Centre for Managing Circular Economy, ManCE at Tampere University in Finland. Her research on circular economy is positioned in the multidiciplinary crossroads of innovation, technological development, and business including business-to-business marketing and ecosystems. She holds leader and specialist positions to advance ecological sustainability.

Ari Jokinen is a senior research fellow in environmental policy at Tampere University in Finland. He holds a PhD in administrative sciences and is an adjunct professor in natural resources policy at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include sustainability policy, focusing on urban transformations, circular economy, biodiversity, and the politics of nature.

Pekka Jokinen is a professor of environmental policy at Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on environmental governance, social change, and sustainabilities, and his current work concerns climate policy and urban circular economy. Jokinen has written on a wide range of issues in environmental politics and policy.