Abstract The Circular Economy (CE) concept is receiving increasing global attention and
has captivated many disciplines, from sustainability through to business and economics …

Globalization has led to an increasing geospatial separation of production and consumption,
and, as a consequence, to an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social …

Background Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with
their high per-capita CO 2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations …

Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the
global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global …

Background Human impacts on earth-system processes are overshooting several planetary
boundaries, driving a crisis of ecological breakdown. This crisis is being caused in large part …

Ecologically unequal exchange theory posits asymmetric net flows of biophysical resources
from poorer to richer countries. To date, empirical evidence to support this theoretical notion …

Abstract The United Nations formulated the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015
as a comprehensive global policy framework for addressing the most pressing social and …

The challenge of assessing emerging technologies with life cycle assessment (LCA) has
been increasingly discussed in the LCA field. In this article, we propose a definition of …

Life cycle thinking methods such as life cycle assessment (LCA) and costing (LCC) were
originally developed to assess the performance of products and services (business-making …

The clean energy transition could see the cumulative installed capacity of photovoltaics
increase from 1 TW before the end of 2022 to 15–60 TW by 2050, creating a significant silver …