Circularity as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy in the Building Sector: The Stakeholder’s Involvement in the Interconnected Life Cycle Phases

Fuat Emre Kaya () and Antonello Monsù Scolaro
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Fuat Emre Kaya: Department of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, Palazzo del Pou Salit—Piazza Duomo 6, 07041 Alghero, Italy
Antonello Monsù Scolaro: Department of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, Palazzo del Pou Salit—Piazza Duomo 6, 07041 Alghero, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: There is an evident relationship between climate change and the building sector through reciprocal environmental impacts. The circular economy is fitted into this relationship as a mitigation strategy in the building sector, thanks to its nature of life cycle perspective consideration, support for stakeholder collaboration, and the ideology of waste minimization, reduction of natural resource consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. This article aims to conduct two subsequential systematic literature reviews to evaluate the status in the scientific literature about the circular economy as a climate change mitigation strategy in the building sector and to find the place taken in the scientific literature about the stakeholder’s involvement toward circularity transition in the abovementioned link. As a result of the methodological approach, publicly available and reliable publications have been identified and analyzed based on the publication year and territory. The results indicate an increasing scientific literature contribution about the context, but the stakeholder concept is considerably taken less place; thus, it is a gap in the scientific literature. The stakeholder focal point, which the innovativeness of this article lays down, needs more attention in academic research, thus in the sector with the strengthening collaboration and mutual awareness among stakeholders.

Keywords: building sector; circular economy; climate change; stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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