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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001862
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Closing the loop in the Slovak Republic : A roadmap towards circularity for competitiveness, eco-innovation and sustainability
OECD - 2022
The use of materials globally has increased over the past century and it will continue to grow with sustained population and economic growth. Such growth also leads to increased environmental pressures, including climate change. While the Slovak Republic has made notable progress in decoupling...
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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529224
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Greening growth in Luxembourg
Brandt, Nicola - 2013
With strong economic growth overall and an increasingly important role as a regional economic centre, Luxembourg is experiencing mounting environmental pressures. This is mainly a result of a growing population and a rapid increase in transport, which is dominated by the car, as the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767736
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Financing water security for sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific
Leckie, Hannah - 2021
The Asia Water Development Outlook – a flagship publication by the Asian Development Bank - monitors progress in water security in the Asia Pacific region. For the first time, the 2020 edition documents financing flows that contribute to – or that are needed to enhance – water security in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630183
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Evaluating environmental sustainability in Africa : the role of environmental taxes, productive capacities, and urbanization dynamics
BenYoussef, Adel; Dahmani, Mounir - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 4, pp. 1-24
This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...
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The Basic Environmental Economics of the Circular Economy
Sorensen, Peter Birch - 2017
This paper sets up a Ramsey model with exhaustible natural resources to study the optimal recycling of polluting raw … an initial “linear” phase with no recycling followed by a “circular” phase where some materials and waste products are … recycled to alleviate growing natural resource scarcity and environmental degradation. Ensuring the optimal degree of recycling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944296
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Digitalisation for the transition to a resource efficient and circular economy
Barteková, Eva - 2022
Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as a means to help unlocking the benefits of more inclusive and sustainable growth and enhanced social well-being. In the environmental context, digitalisation can contribute to decoupling economic activity from natural resource use and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174588
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European Environment Policy for the Circular Economy : Implications for Business and Industry Stakeholders
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2020
, reusing, restoring, refurbishing and recycling resources in all stages of their value chain. Therefore, this research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828280