Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Ethical and Sustainable Business

By: Helen Kopnina; Kim Poldner

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Synopsis: How can we design circular business models? How can we organize the transition from a linear to a circular economy? And how can we imagine circular futures that help us transform current realities? This book aims to provide answers to these questions while addressing the challenges and opportunities of the circular economy. The authors reflect on why conventional sustainability models – such as the ‘triple P’ (People, Profit and Planet) or eco-efficiency – have failed in addressing environmental challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. They then move on to explore innovative circular business models, which propose to eliminate environmental damage by radically reforming the system of industrial production. Organizing the transition is a collaborative effort: entrepreneurs, consumers, policymakers, multinationals and intermediaries need to work together to foster the emergence of the circular economy as an institutional field. Together with younger generations of learners and equipped with beyond-human-centred values towards awareness of the material and natural world, novel circular futures can be imagined. Offering points of reference for continued critical discourse and examples of practically applicable sustainability solutions, this book will be of great interest to students, teachers, practitioners and scholars of circular economy.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 230 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000427189
Related ISBNs:: 9780367418663, 9780367816650, 9780367418649
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/13/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Helen Kopnina and Kim Poldner
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Kim Poldner
Edited by:: Helen Kopnina