Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12104069
Keywords
socio-technical transition; sustainability transition; multilevel perspective; recycling; upcycling; downcycling; biorefinery; servitization; circular business model
Funding
- Project PRIN DRASTIC Driving The Italian Agri-Food System Into A Circular Economy Model, PRIN-MIUR - Call 2017 - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
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Transitioning into a circular economy (CE) has been recently proposed as an agenda for reconciling global industrial systems with natural equilibria, but the current understanding of CE is ambiguous among scholars. Informed by recent growing CE literature, this study summarizes through three key propositions a set of indisputable insights emerging from the CE debate. In particular, the paper: remarks how CE takes stock of concepts of other schools of thought to drive policy interventions; depicts CE as a systemic transition of global industrial systems; and highlights the role of eco-effectiveness to upgrade business-centered approaches to sustainability. The proposed propositions are expected to contribute to reducing ambiguities in the CE debate and to convey coherence to future research.
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