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The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?

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Summary, in English

While the terms Circular Economy and sustainability are increasingly gaining traction with academia, industry, and policymakers, the similarities and differences between both concepts remain ambiguous. The relationship between the concepts is not made explicit in literature, which is blurring their conceptual contours and constrains the efficacy of using the approaches in research and practice. This research addresses this gap and aims to provide conceptual clarity by distinguishing the terms and synthesising the different types of relationships between them. We conducted an extensive literature review, employing bibliometric analysis and snowballing techniques to investigate the state of the art in the field and synthesise the similarities, differences and relationships between both terms. We identified eight different relationship types in the literature and illustrated the most evident similarities and differences between both concepts.

Publishing year

2017-02-01

Language

English

Pages

757-768

Publication/Series

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volume

143

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics and Business

Keywords

  • Circular business model
  • Circular Economy
  • Closed loop
  • Literature review
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable development

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0959-6526