Sex, drugs and the circular economy: the social impacts of the circular economy and how to measure them

Kati Pitkänen, Tiina Kaisa Maria Karppinen, Petrus Kautto, Sara Turunen, Jáchym Judl and Tuuli Myllymaa

Chapter 13 in Handbook of the Circular Economy, 2020, pp 162-175 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Many hopes and promises have been assigned to the circular economy (CE). The CE has been seen as a new development model creating wealth, jobs, cost savings and other significant environmental, economic and social benefits. Measurable estimations of these benefits, however, have mostly been presented on the economic impacts of the CE. In this paper, we take a closer look at the promises and expectations of the CE from the point of view of social impacts. We summarise the key statements of the social impacts of the CE from some of the key CE policy documents in Finland, Netherlands and Europe and study whether these statements can be attested. By introducing some options for measuring social impacts, we will then discuss how the social implications of the CE could be approached.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788972710/9781788972710.00021.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18519_13

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().