The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy: Separating Aspirations from Reality

ISBN-13: 9781032154435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Lehmann, Harry

Opis

The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource use and more systemic leadership-management approaches.

Spis treści

PART 1: WHAT WE DREAM OF!  1. Circularity dreams - denying physical realities  2. Does waste equal food? Examining the feasibility of circular economy in the food industry  3. The impossible dream’: can the circular economy alone solve waste management complexities of the Global South?  4. The entropic nature of the economic process: a scientific explanation of the blunder of circular economy  5. The impossibility of circular recycling  PART 2: WHAT ARE OUR BLIND SPOTS?  6. Circular economy, sustainability and functional differentiation: an impossibility and its strategic-methodological implications  7. Circularity is not sustainability: how well-intentioned concepts distract us from our true goals, and how SiD can help navigate that challenge  8. Circular Economy: from panacea for sustainability to conceptual and resource realities  9. Some observations on the current Circular Economy model: in particular, the mineral-metal-material stream blind spots  10. Circular economy leadership: leadership mindsets and behaviours – the unseen impossibility  11. Can there be a responsible narrative about the circular economy?  12. Who has discursive agency to change global environmental narratives? Insights from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy   13. Brazil's structural issues in advancing the circular economy: the case of biogas  PART 3: WHAT WE NEED TO STRESS MORE!  14. The Circular Economy should finally demand the impossible  15. System leadership for overcoming the impossibilities of a circular economy  16. From closed to open systems: applying systems thinking to reframe strategic decision-making  17. Truly circular economies require deep collaboration: the principles underlying successful circular economies  18. Development and implementation of resource labelling  19. Circularity’s stumbling blocks: how stuttering implementation and socio-metabolic root causes adversely interact  PART 4: WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO WE SEE?  20. Global resource use and the future: any room for the circular economy?  21. Regenerative economy: the embedding of circularity  22. Circular Economy through a system change lens  23. Practising circular economy: stumbling blocks for circulation and recycling  24. Implementation of refuse derived fuel technology toward achieving a sustainable circular economy: potentials and compatibility in Bangladesh.  25. From profit to prosperity: making the impossible possible through integral investing  26. Coming full circle: putting the social into circular economy