ABSTRACT
This 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 address the circular economy as a systemic change. Its theoretical and practical perspectives are coupled with real-world case studies from Finland, Italy, China, India, Nigeria, and others to provide tangible insights on catalysing the circular economy across organisational, hierarchical, and disciplinary boundaries.
With its broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse scope, this handbook will be a valuable tool for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in the fields of circular economy, sustainability transitions, environmental studies, business, and the social sciences more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 20I|148 pages
Contextualised understanding of catalysts
chapter 3|25 pages
Recreating the Construction Sector for Circularity
chapter 5|19 pages
A Review of the Circular Economy in Nigeria
chapter 6|21 pages
Catalysts for Transition to Circular Economy Solutions in the Biowaste Management Sector in India
chapter 7|15 pages
Plastic Waste and a Circular Economy in China
chapter 8|24 pages
The Role of Institutional Environment in Catalysing Circular Entrepreneurship
part 168II|170 pages
Types of catalysts
chapter 13|25 pages
Circular Economy and Finance * *
chapter 14|18 pages
Core Competences and Core Resources as Catalysts for the Design of Circular Business Models
part 338III|154 pages
Methodological approaches for catalysing
chapter 19|15 pages
Scenario Method for Catalysing Circularity and Lowering Emissions in the Construction Sector/Real Estate, Nigeria
chapter 20|19 pages
Digital Affordances for a Circular Economy Transition
chapter 21|24 pages
Accelerating the Adoption of a Circular Economy
part 492IV|98 pages
Conceptual understanding of catalysing