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Circular cities: mapping six cities in transition
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posted on 2017-05-05, 08:18 authored by Sharon PrendevilleSharon Prendeville, Emma Cherim, Nancy BockenUrbanisation 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 might be ‘closed’. Here, we explore this new ‘circular city’ agenda by asking: How are cities adopting CE as a strategy?. We found that political leadership, building adaptable future visions, using experimental approaches (such as living labs), developing contextual knowledge about resource use, and engaging with diverse stakeholders to be important. However, we also expose that there is a lack of consensus on what a circular city constitutes and a need to further untangle the how and why of the circular city concept. The research contributes to the field by outlining emergent cases, identifying a set of common policy strategies, conceptualising a circular city and identifying areas for future research.
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- Loughborough University London
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Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsVolume
26Pages
171 - 194Citation
PRENDEVILLE, S., CHERIM, E. and BOCKEN, N., 2018. Circular cities: mapping six cities in transition. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 26, pp. 171-194.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-03-18Publication date
2017-04-10Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.03.002ISSN
2210-4224Publisher version
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- en
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