Circular and Transformative Economy: Advances towards Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation

This book aims to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management, highlighting the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The primary objective of this comprehensive book is to present illustrative circular models for sustainable resource management. It underscores the advantages of transformative approaches in seamlessly integrating, streamlining, and enhancing the comprehension of intricate systems, ultimately driving systems toward greater sustainability while achieving a multitude of social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It offers guidance toward strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation, supported by comprehensive case studies.

Key Features:
• Delves into the exploration of a transitional path toward the circular economy, approached from the perspective of waste and technology.
• Explains the transformative shift towards sustainable socio-ecological interactions.
• Reviews the provision of pathways toward sustainability through the development of scenarios.
• Offers an assessment of progress toward Sustainable Development Goals.
• Presents cross-sectoral and multicentric approaches toward circularity.

This book is meticulously designed for researchers and professionals engaged in the fields of water and environmental engineering, circular economy, sustainability, and environmental studies. Furthermore, the Open Access version of this book, accessible at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been generously made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license, ensuring widespread accessibility and dissemination of valuable knowledge.

Weight: 720g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032356013