Intersecting: Bending the Linear Economy On Urban Metabolism #resources #well-being #policies, 9(2022)
بيانات النشر:
New Dialogues Berlin, 2022.
سنة النشر:
2022
الوصف:
A shift towards a more Circular Economy is, in many policies, seen as crucial to achieving a more sustainable andinclusive built environment that meets future demands.In the last decade, the European Commission’s researchfunding has supported numerous initiatives aiming to reducewaste generation through shifts towards Circular Economyapproaches. Many cities and regions followed and startedto develop circular economy strategies, action plans andcircularity monitors. The difficulties and challenges of implementing a seemingly simple concept are mainly to narrow,slow down and close materials streams and thereby reduceour dependency on raw material input. Europe’s geopoliticaldependency on resource-rich countries has become very apparent during the last years. In this article, we identify someof those challenges and propose potential ways forward.
