Overview
- Examines waste management policy in the context of current ideas about establishing a circular economy
- Provides insights into policy challenges of moving from a linear to circular economy
- Provides an analytical framework for researchers and practitioners examining policy challenges of promoting the circular economy, particularly in terms of waste management policy
- Offers analysis of OECD countries and the difficulties of economic transformation to sustainable production and consumption
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About this book
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management practices towards more sustainable approaches. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the nature of waste management and the prevailing crisis, followed by a discussion about the circular economy in terms of its requirements and the challenges of implementation. The book then moves on to propose a framework that sets out how to establish the policy changes needed to advance a circular approach to waste management. Next, the book outlines complex issues in multilevel systems for advancing a circular economy through examining the contemporary situation in Belgium and Norway. It ends by bringing together the issues revealed in these case studies and draws insights for governments advocating circular approaches. The book will be a valuable resource to scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in developing more sustainable methods of waste management.
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Stephen M Jones is a senior lecturer in public sector management in the Business School at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advancing a Circular Economy
Book Subtitle: A Future without Waste?
Authors: Stephen M Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66564-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66563-0Published: 02 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66566-1Published: 03 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66564-7Published: 01 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 171
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Environment, general