10 Insights from Industrial Ecology for the Circular Economy
Stijn van Ewijk (University College London)
Weslynne S. Ashton (Illinois Institute of Technology)
P. Berrill (Technical University of Berlin)
Zhi Cao (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Marian Chertow (Yale University)
Shauhrat S. Chopra (City University of Hong Kong)
Tomer Fishman (Universiteit Leiden)
Colin Fitzpatrick (University of Limerick)
Benjamin Sprecher (TU Delft - Design for Sustainability)
G.B. More authors (External organisation)
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Abstract
This white paper presents 10 insights into the circular economy from the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology is a scientific field that takes a systems perspective to explore the society-wide use of materials and energy and address the related impacts on the natural environment. The circular economy is a framework for sustainable resource management that shapes government policy (McDowall et al. 2017), business model innovation (Lüdeke-Freund, Gold, and Bocken 2019) and public research agendas (Leipold et al. 2022).