The Circular Economy And The Global South

Author : Patrick Schröder,Manisha Anantharaman,Kartika Anggraeni,Timothy J. Foxon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429783692

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The Circular Economy and the Global South by Patrick Schröder,Manisha Anantharaman,Kartika Anggraeni,Timothy J. Foxon Pdf

The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts. This book examines the relevance of the circular economy in the context of developing countries, something which to date is little understood. This volume highlights examples of circular economy practices in developing country contexts in relation to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), informal sector recycling and national policy approaches. It examines a broad range of case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand, and illustrates how the circular economy can be used as a new lens and possible solution to cross-cutting development issues of pollution and waste, employment, health, urbanisation and green industrialisation. In addition to more technical and policy oriented contributions, the book also critically discusses existing narratives and pathways of the circular economy in the global North and South, and how these differ or possibly even conflict with each other. Finally, the book critically examines under what conditions the circular economy will be able to reduce global inequalities and promote human development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Presenting a unique social sciences perspective on the circular economy discourse, this book is relevant to students and scholars studying sustainability in economics, business studies, environmental politics and development studies.

Author : Seth Asare Okyere
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819990252

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Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South by Seth Asare Okyere Pdf

Author : Elena G. Popkova,Aleksei V. Bogoviz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789739817

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Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries by Elena G. Popkova,Aleksei V. Bogoviz Pdf

Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries: Perspective, Methods And Examples develops a new approach to research, founded on the idea that ecological crisis is proof of the necessity for formation of circular economy.

Author : Peter Lacy,Jakob Rutqvist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137530707

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Waste to Wealth by Peter Lacy,Jakob Rutqvist Pdf

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

Author : Garima Jain,Cassidy Johnson,Allan Lavell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1787358291

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Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South by Garima Jain,Cassidy Johnson,Allan Lavell Pdf

A study on urban risk and resettlement programs in the Global South in the era of climate change. Environmental changes impact everyone, but the burden is especially heavy upon the lives and livelihoods of the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents' exposure to climate change and natural disasters, resettlement programs are becoming widespread across the Global South. Yet, while resettlement may reduce a region's future climate-related disaster risk, it can also often increase poverty and vulnerability. This volume collates the findings from a research project that examined urban areas across the globe, including case studies from India, Uganda, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The book offers a unique approach to resettlement, providing an opportunity for urban planners to re-think how disaster risk management can better address the accumulation of urban risks in the era of climate change.

Author : Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811510526

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Circular Economy: Global Perspective by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh Pdf

A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life. Circular economy (CE) is important towards sustainable development, resources circulation and conservation, involving closing of material loops and cascading used resources, to prevent waste occurrence, and transforming the resulting residual streams into new (secondary) resources. Strategies and legislative framework for waste management are important steps for development of a more CE where resource efficiency becomes the key driver for both economic growth and environmental protections. A few countries achieved good results implementing CE as a replacement of the linear economy. Resource managers and planners should thoroughly identify factors to implement CE for societal benefits. This book presents how resource consumption is minimized with rational use based on 3Rs, legislative framework and government supports towards implementing CE initiatives, example of best practices, future plans and targets in different countries those are helpful for researchers, planners and implementers.

Author : Sadhan Kumar Ghosh,Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811609138

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Circular Economy: Recent Trends in Global Perspective by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh,Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh Pdf

This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy. The experienced contributors present the status and strategies of circular economy implementation in several countries with hands on experience to protect the environment while promoting the circular economy through legislative requirements, best practices adopted and popularizing the idea of circulation of resources amongst the researchers & academia, policy makers, industry, and the general public at large. The book advocates model that consists of designing products and processes with a view to endlessly recycling them evolving a greater scope of sustainable development.

Author : Patrick O’Hare,Dagna Rams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350296626

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Circular Economies in an Unequal World by Patrick O’Hare,Dagna Rams Pdf

"This landmark first anthropological volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global implications. Aspirations towards circular economies have become increasingly prominent around the world, with the EU adopting an ambitious 'circular economy action plan', and China enshrining its own circular economy (xunhuan jingji) in law since 2008. Yet until now, social anthropology has largely neglected the potentially deep social impacts of this concept, focusing instead on metrics of waste, despite its obvious implications through every level of the economy and society. This volume covers a diverse array of international actors, including waste-pickers, traders and policymakers, and the global movement of materials like gold, plastic and textiles. Through ethnographic and qualitative case studies, it exposes many of the tensions that exist between state and corporate ideals of the circular economy, and the vernacular practices and philosophies that exist around the world. Contributors examine the frictions that emerge as these concepts and materials travel across different geographic contexts, and ask - what can an anthropological analysis contribute to a concept that is increasingly reshaping economies and restructuring global flows of virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste?"--

Author : Terry Tudor,Cleber JC. Dutra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000259636

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The Routledge Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy by Terry Tudor,Cleber JC. Dutra Pdf

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.

Author : Feja Lesniewska,Katrien Steenmans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000837704

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Circular Economy and the Law by Feja Lesniewska,Katrien Steenmans Pdf

This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system. Amid increasing demand for virgin raw materials, and unsustainable consumption and waste disposal that are driving the global ecological and climate crisis, there are growing calls to urgently transition to circular economies. Despite an increasing number of circular approaches being adopted, implemented, and integrated in national and local laws and policies, the number of commercially successful business stories remains isolated. Moreover, questions about whether circular economy laws and policies are delivering fair and just global outcomes need to be addressed. This book examines this significant knowledge gap to understand legal experiences, including justice and equity issues in the global context, so that these can inform wider design and implementation. The book begins by explaining the concept of a circular economy and its context within wider issues of sustainable development and justice. The first part of the book then examines the legal context of the circular economy by analysing legal forms in practice and those recommended in wider scholarship before considering how these could impact on existing inequity and injustices globally. The second part delivers an empirical understanding of the implications of the law on circular economy approaches and the global equity and justice dimensions through two case studies on solid waste management and forestry. The final part addresses legal opportunities and challenges for wider implementation of circular economy approaches that incorporate justice into its framing. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental and natural resource law and policy, circular economy, industrial ecology, natural resource management, and sustainable development more broadly.

Author : Ken Webster
Publisher : Ellen MacArthur Foundation Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992778468

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The Circular Economy by Ken Webster Pdf

This book provides an overview of a circular economy. This model has profound consequences for production, employment, education, money & finance but also induces a shift in public policy and taxation. Its economic advantage lies in designing out waste and favouring radical resource productivity with the prospect of rebuilding capital & resilience.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264311428

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Business Models for the Circular Economy Opportunities and Challenges for Policy by OECD Pdf

Natural resources, and the materials derived from them, represent the physical basis for the economic system. Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in demand for these resources, which has triggered interest from policy makers in transitioning to a more resource efficient and ...

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319718880

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Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy by Robert C. Brears Pdf

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits. It emphasises the urgent need for these circular economies and to move away from our current, linear model that has led to environmental degradation, volatility of resource prices and supply risks from uneven distribution of natural resources. Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy illustrates how governments have promoted the development of an economy that can provide substantial net material savings; mitigate price volatility and supply risks; and improve ecosystem health and long-term resilience of the economy. Through a series of case studies, it details the various innovative policy instruments which can be utilised, including regulations; market-based instruments; incentives; research and innovation support; information exchanges; and support for voluntary approaches. The book also proposes a series of best practices for different countries, both developed and developing, who are implementing their circular economy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264307452

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Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060 Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences by OECD Pdf

This report presents global projections of materials use and their environmental consequences, providing a quantitative outlook to 2060 at the global, sectoral and regional levels for 61 different materials (biomass resources, fossil fuels, metals and non-metallic minerals). It explains the ...

Author : Gero Bauer,Nicole Hirschfelder,Fernando Resende
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040001387

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Un-Mapping the Global South by Gero Bauer,Nicole Hirschfelder,Fernando Resende Pdf

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.