Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II Circular Economy a
Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today’s linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible. Sust
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Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II
Ranjula Bali Swain · Susanne Sweet Editors
Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II Circular Economy and Beyond
Editors Ranjula Bali Swain Center for Sustainability Research and Misum Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden Department of Economics Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden
Susanne Sweet Center for Sustainability Research and Department of Marketing and Strategy Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden
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Preface
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been created and propagated by the over-arching socio-economic environment and activities that are pushing the physical boundaries of Earth and its biodiversity. Return to normal cannot be a return to the same re-enforcing systems that have created such risks in the first place. Urgency is evident and the proportion of action has to be greater than the risks that our ‘business as usual’ scenario imposes—not what is convenient and easy to implement. Circular economy is one such transformative change to reduce material and resource use; prolong life of products by reuse, repairing, re-furbishing or re-manufacturing and; at the end of a product’s life, recycling the material and put it into productive use again. This volume addresses the knowledge gaps and potential and necessary developments to reach a circular economy. This volume is part of a two volume work on Sustainable
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