Histories and Futures of Circular Economy

Catherine Casson () and Daniel Welch ()
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Catherine Casson: The Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
Daniel Welch: The Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Chapter Chapter 3 in Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II, 2021, pp 35-54 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter aims to, firstly, historicize the idea of the Circular Economy by looking at practices of reuse and recycling in medieval and later periods and, secondly, to explore how the Circular Economy functions in an imagined future in contemporary practice.

Keywords: Medieval; Future; Historical perspective; Reuse; Recycling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55285-5_3

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