De paradox van circulariteit

Karel Van den Berghe is kritisch en bezorgd. De in Nederland werkende Vlaming stelt dat steden teveel belang hechten aan ruimte voor circulair ontwerp zoals lampen, huizen en buurten. De circulaire economie heeft echter ook ruimte nodig om het circulair functioneren te faciliteren, met name de (her)maakindustrie. Toch verdwijnen in Nederland...

When a Fire Starts to Burn: The Relation Between an (Inter)nationally Oriented Incinerator Capacity and the Port Cities’ Local Circular Ambitions

This paper assesses the potential of the circular economy (CE) policy ambitions of the port cities of Ghent (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Both Ghent and Amsterdam are municipalities that potentially lend themselves ideally to set up a more local-oriented circular (re)production and (re)consumption system. Subsequently, both have the...

Patterns of Circular Transition: What Is the Circular Economy Maturity of Belgian Ports?

Large seaport hubs in Northwestern Europe are aiming to develop as circular hotspots and are striving to become first movers in the circular economy (CE) transition. In order to facilitate their transition, it is therefore relevant to unravel potential patterns of the circular transition that ports are currently undertaking. In this paper, we...

Circular Area Design or Circular Area Functioning?: A Discourse-Institutional Analysis of Circular Area Developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands

The hypothesis of this paper is that the circular economy (CE) has the potential to (re)balance the conflict within urban spatial planning between ‘place as a location’ and the ‘organization of space’. The former dominates the latter following a shift from a Fordist towards a finance and real-estate driven regime. A consequence is that existing...