S.M. Prendeville
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Creating sustainable value through remanufacturing
Three industry cases
Remanufacturing is proposed as a strategy to develop circular business models to manage resource loops in the future circular economy (CE). If remanufacturing is to occupy a central role in the CE it needs to be considered from a series of complementary and synchronous busines ...
Circular Cities
Mapping Six Cities in Transition
Urbanisation and climate change are urging cities to chart novel paths towards sustainable futures. Many cities are turning to the alluring 'circular economy' (CE) concept to guide this redirection. The CE concept re-imagines how flows of resources moving through economies mig ...
Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas
A path to business model innovation
Makespaces
From Redistributed Manufacturing to a Circular Economy
Redistributed manufacturing is an emerging concept which captures the anticipated reshoring and localisation of production from large scale mass manufacturing plants to smaller-scale localised, customisable production units, largely driven by new digital production technologie ...