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Book SynopsisThis 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 addre
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“For the last 50 years, we have come to realise that there are not only natural resource limits to our economic growth but that our extraction methods are – indisputably – responsible for global warming, ever-increasing levels of pollution, and dire health effects. However, despite all this data, we have been reluctant to act. In the last few years, circular economy initiatives and regulations have emerged as viable remedies to these calamities, but a deeper look often reveals a lack of a true systemic circular transition. This book is closing an urgent gap because it helps us understand the actual catalyzers of circularity and in so doing, once activated, long-term, sustainable change can finally take place.”
Gordana Kierans, EntrepreneurCircle.World, Croatia
“An impressive array of experts masterfully help us to understand and expand the role of catalysts to help transition from linear to circular business models across industries, regions, and approaches. This handbook is both guidebook and playbook, and provides both sides of the telescope – informative zoom-ins, as well as insightful zoom-outs to help us take the necessary next steps to begin the transition in earnest.”
Alon Rozen, Dean and Professor of Innovation, École des Ponts Business School, France
Table of Contents1. 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
