Prospects for the circular economy and conclusions

Miguel Brandão, David Lazarevic and Göran Finnveden

Chapter 38 in Handbook of the Circular Economy, 2020, pp 505-514 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Handbook of the Circular Economy covers the issue to which it is dedicated in a manner as comprehensive as possible within the scope of a handbook. This final chapter identifies and addresses some key issues related to circular economy: how it can be implemented sustainably taking into account its limitations, the role of analytical tools, barriers and how to overcome them, and concluding remarks. The circular economy is a viable alternative to the linear economy. By maximising the value of resources along the life cycles of the products that contain them, resources can be used more efficiently and effectively, and negative environmental, economic and social impacts associated with the life cycle of products can be minimised. Hence, the circular economy offers a clear solution that meets current policy goals. There is tremendous scope for increasing the share of the circular economy in the global economy.

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/9781788972710/9781788972710.00049.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_38

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 ().