Circular Economy: The Concept and Its Limitations in Environmental Sustainability
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...Speculations or reports about rebound effects are also evident in connection with CE (Haupt and Zschokke 2017; Bocken et al. 2014; Dahmus and Gutowski 2011; Korhonen et al. 2018)....
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...…(Grosso et al. 2017) as well as dissipative losses in any loops, thus the vision of 100% material recycling may still be regarded as only theoretically possible in a distant future (Korhonen et al. 2018), and the feasibility of a closed loop economy is still unknown (Haupt and Zschokke 2017)....
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...consultants, business foundations and policy-makers, the scientific research content is still young (Korhonen et al. 2018)....
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...Aims and Limitations of Circular Economy While the concept of CE and its practice have been mostly developed and led by practitioners (i.e., consultants, business foundations, and policy makers), the scientific research content is still young (Korhonen et al. 2018)....
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...…challenge 4, on social justice and governance, which many authors have identified as one of the most important issues for a circular future (Geissdoerfer et al., 2017; Hobson, 2019; Korhonen et al., 2018a; Millar et al., 2019; Moreau et al., 2017; Schröder et al., 2019a; Temesgen et al., 2019)....
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...Searching online for the “circular economy” concept in 2008 would only show 20,570 results, the same search now leads to over 5.74 million, thus surpassing the popularity of the many ideas that originated it, such as “industrial ecology” (1.01 million results), and “industrial symbiosis” (195,000), and the ideas that are directly related to it like “cradle to cradle” (3.14 million), “biomimicry” (2.47 million), and “performance economy” (224,000).1 Overall, the CE concept is viewed as a promising idea and ideal that has much to bring towards addressing challenges of the Anthropocene (Aurez et al., 2016; Geissdoerfer et al., 2017; Murray et al., 2017)....
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...…thinking (see for example Blomsma, 2018; Blomsma and Brennan, 2017; D'Amato et al., 2019; Geissdoerfer et al., 2017; Homrich et al., 2018; Korhonen et al., 2018b; Merli et al., 2018; Reike et al., 2018), and which have analysed circularity discourse in specific sectors (Colombo et al.,…...
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...…makes the concept simpler and easier to promote and adopt, it also means that it faces key challenges, inconsistencies, and limitations in its understanding, application and its systemic validity (Geissdoerfer et al., 2017; Korhonen et al., 2018b; Lazarevic and Valve, 2017; Reike et al., 2018)....
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...While many are proposing a “deliberately vague but uncontroversial” (Lazarevic and Valve, 2017, p60) discourse on the CE as a strategy to gain widespread support in the short term, this could lead to a depoliticised CE, which does little towards tackling the systemic socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene (Korhonen et al., 2018b; Millar et al., 2019; Valenzuela and Böhm, 2017)....
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...Many visions for the circular economy are currently being debated and developed in both the EU and other parts of the world (Kirchherr et al., 2017; Lazarevic and Valve, 2017; Winans et al., 2017; Korhonen et al., 2018)....
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...Circular economy The realization that human activities have caused environmental degradation, destruction of habitats and alterations to ecosystems that endanger human wellbeing, has led to the pursuit of more sustainable strategies, such as the CE (Bruce et al., 1996; EMF, 2013; Korhonen et al., 2018)....
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...The realization that human activities have caused environmental degradation, destruction of habitats and alterations to ecosystems that endanger human wellbeing, has led to the pursuit of more sustainable strategies, such as the CE (Bruce et al., 1996; EMF, 2013; Korhonen et al., 2018)....
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...An agreement on what the CE concept exactly mean is still missing and many definitions have been proposed by scholars (e.g. Blomsma and Brennan, 2017; Geissdoerfer et al., 2017; Homrich et al., 2018; Kirchherr et al., 2017; Korhonen et al., 2018)....
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