Advancing to a Circular Economy: three essential ingredients for a comprehensive policy mix

L Milios - Sustainability science, 2018 - Springer
Material resources exploitation and the pressure on natural ecosystems have raised
concerns over potential future resource risks and supply failures worldwide. Interest in the …

[HTML][HTML] From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy

M Giampietro, SO Funtowicz - Environmental Science & Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper explores the implications of the widespread success of the term circular economy
in the institutional and public debate. The concept of circular economy in itself implies a …

Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism

S Schindler - City, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper I argue that cities in the global South constitute a distinctive 'type'of human
settlement. I begin by critiquing Brenner and Schmid's concept of planetary urbanization …

Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen

M Calisto Friant, K Reid, P Boesler… - Local …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cities play a central role in the circular economy (CE) as they are important centres of
production and consumption, responsible for 80% of global GDP. European cities are …

Environmentally data-driven smart sustainable cities: Applied innovative solutions for energy efficiency, pollution reduction, and urban metabolism

SE Bibri, J Krogstie - Energy Informatics, 2020 - Springer
The IoT and big data technologies have become essential to the functioning of both smart
cities and sustainable cities, and thus, urban operational functioning and planning are …

The boundaries of urban metabolism: Towards a political–industrial ecology

JP Newell, JJ Cousins - Progress in Human Geography, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper considers the limits and potential of 'urban metabolism'to conceptualize city
processes. Three 'ecologies' of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a …