Resources by: Martin

Although the Japanese government is an early adopter of Circular Economy (CE) policies and developed the concept of the Sound Material-Cycle Society in the early 2000s, its CE policies have nonetheless been poorly researched and understood, especially in English academic literature. This article addresses this research gap by answering the Read more [...]

While the conceptual underpinnings of the circular economy (CE) date back to the 1970s, the concept has recently become a major discourse in contemporary sustainability debates. The idea of CE, as it is now understood, is thus rather new and remains in conceptual development. Moreover, it is a contested concept Read more [...]

Groundbreaking academic research titled: “Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen” 📰 🏙 The article finds that the circularity policies of the abovementioned cities focus on economic competitiveness and technological innovation and thus fail to address the full social, political, and ecological implications of Read more [...]

The EU’s Circular Economy Policies are comprehensively reviewed and analysed in a new academic paper published in the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption. This research examines the 25 new CE directives, communications and regulations enacted by the Junker Commission and evaluates their sustainability implications based on a typology of circularity Read more [...]

  This research reviews the long history and diversity of circularity thinking to develop the first typology of circularity discourses, which identifies and conceptually classifies 72 different CE-related concepts from the Global North and South alike (such as industrial ecology, cradle to cradle, steady-state economics, buen vivir, doughnut economics and Read more [...]