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Integrated sustainability assessment of a circular economy
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Sustainability Assessment and Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5600-0726
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2020 (English)In: Handbook of the Circular Economy / [ed] Miguel Brandão, David Lazarevic, Göran Finnveden, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, p. 147-161Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Governments and businesses are acknowledging that the prevailing ’linear systems of resource use’ expose our societies to serious risks. Resource constraints and increasing volumes of waste and pollution pose a threat to people’s well-being and businesses’ competitiveness and sustainability efforts. The ’circular economy’, conversely, is described as an industrial system that is circular in the cradle-to-cradle-recyclability sense by intention and design. This chapter focuses on some assessed integrated impacts - possible societal benefits - that a transformation from a linear to a circular economy might result in. This has been done by applying “what-if-scenarios” into a for this purpose constructed interactive input–output model with a number of changes linked to a circular economy implemented in the model. The model has then been applied to eight European economies showing close to 70% reductions in CO2-emissions while offering new and additional employment and improving the trade balance of fossil-fuels-importing countries.

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Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. p. 147-161
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313484OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313484DiVA, id: diva2:1664776
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QC 20220620

Chapter in book: ISBN 978-1788972710

Available from: 2022-06-05 Created: 2022-06-05 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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