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Quality of Working Life in the Circular Economy
Rogers, Heather A.; Deutz, Pauline; Ramos, Tomas B.; Jonas, Andrew E.G.Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Establishing a circular economy is assumed by some definitions to include social benefits such as employment opportunities; however, research beyond quantitative job creation projections is only recently emerging. While the repair sector is well-established, it has been suggested that increasing circularity implies significantly expanded demand for this service. This ...
Introduction
Deutz, Pauline; Vermeulen, Walter J.V.; Baumgartner, Rupert J.; Ramos, Tomás B.; Raggi, AndreaPublisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Pauline Deutz, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Tomás B. Ramos, and Andrea Raggi; individual chapters, the contributors.; This chapter introduces the understandings of a circular economy (CE) and sustainability that guided the research. A CE is considered a resource efficiency measure that has evolved from a number of previous approaches t...
Emerging indications of employment in a circular economy
Deutz, Pauline; Rogers, Heather A.; Diaz, Anna; Klein, Natacha; Opferkuch, Katelin; Newsholme, Aodhan; Jonas, Andrew E.G.; Ramos, Tomás B.Publisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Pauline Deutz, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Tomás B. Ramos, and Andrea Raggi; individual chapters, the contributors.; The potential for job creation is widely assumed to follow from the greening of the economy by means such as a circular economy (CE). There have been efforts to quantify the number of jobs potentially arising from a CE,...
Policy considerations for a circular economy
Vermeulen, Walter J.V.; Friant, Martin Calisto; Campbell-Johnston, Kieran; Deutz, Pauline; Newsholme, Aodhan; Pusz, Małgorzata; Klein, NatachaPublisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Pauline Deutz, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Tomás B. Ramos, and Andrea Raggi; individual chapters, the contributors.; Circular economy (CE) policies have been developed at all levels of government and address key actors in diverse ways. Some of the policies have a longer history initiated as elements of predecessors of the current CE p...
Conclusions
Deutz, Pauline; Vermeulen, Walter J.V.; Baumgartner, Rupert J.; Ramos, Tomás B.; Raggi, AndreaPublisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Pauline Deutz, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Tomás B. Ramos, and Andrea Raggi; individual chapters, the contributors.; Following the findings and discussions presented in the previous chapters, this concluding chapter sums up the emerging reality of circular economy (CE) development. The research indicates that while there have been wid...
Circular economy realities
Deutz, Pauline; Vermeulen, Walter J.V.; Baumgartner, Rupert J.; Ramos, Tomás B.; Raggi, AndreaPublisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Pauline Deutz, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Tomás B. Ramos, and Andrea Raggi; individual chapters, the contributors.; This book addresses the realities of the circular economy, a resource efficiency concept that has risen to global prominence in academic, policy and business circles over the last decade. Considered an approach to susta...
The role of place in the development of a circular economy
Deutz, Pauline; Jonas, Andrew E.G.; Newsholme, Aodhan; Pusz, Małgorzata; Rogers, Heather A.; Affolderbach, Julia; Baumgartner, Rupert J.Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society.; This paper examines the role of place in the local development of a circular economy and the potential for consequent social redistribution. Based on a case study of public, private and third-sector approaches to a circular economy in Hull, an industrial city in the northeast of...
A survey of Circular Economy initiatives in Portuguese central public sector or...
Klein, Natacha; Deutz, Pauline; Ramos, Tomás B.A previous version of this work was presented at the 20th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) Conference 8?10 September 2021 hosted by Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria. The authors would like to thank the Portuguese Ministry of Environment and Climate Action for their help during this research, the survey respondents for taking the time to answer the questions, as...
Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations
Klein, Natacha; Ramos, Tomás B.; Deutz, PaulineFunding Information: Previous versions of this work were presented at the Publication for Early Researchers (PubliER) 2020 conference in Troyes, France on the 30th of January 2020 and at the 26th International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Conference online on the 15th July 2020 hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). The authors would like to thank the interviewees, ...
Factors and strategies for circularity implementation in the public sector
Klein, Natacha; Ramos, Tomás B.; Deutz, PaulineThe circular economy (CE) is seen as a model of production and consumption where resource use is reduced and extended in closed-loop life cycles. Organisations have been fundamental in contributing towards CE for which limited outcomes are known from public organisations. This research aims to identify the factors influencing the implementation of CE and the strategies that support such implementation in the pu...