Introduction: Between no future and business-as-usual: Exploring futures of capitalism

Izák, Michal; Mansell, Samuel F.; Fuller, Ted

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.03.006

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“…Relieving the burden of human civilisation on the earth's material resources while protecting future prosperity challenges contemporary environmental politics (Izak et al 2015). In response, the normative concept of the circular economy (CE), which integrates environmental and economic objectives into a distinctive model of 'sustainable growth', has rapidly come to dominate the discussion about how best to disrupt unsustainable development patterns.…”

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Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package

Fitch-Roy

Benson

Monciardini

2019

Environmental Politics

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The circular economy (CE) concept is informing the governance of resource use and waste management on a global scale, leading to widespread policy instrument innovation. However, the recent appearance of CE 'policy portfolios' raises questions about whether such policies are genuinely path-breaking or are merely adjustments to existing arrangements. Tracing the emergence of the European Union's Circular Economy Package shows that, while some measures are genuinely novel, many others are 'patched' onto pre-existing instruments and that the overall portfolio exhibits a high degree of institutional 'layering'. Given the evidence of relative ineffectiveness of past incremental environmental interventions, there is a mismatch between such approaches and the scale, pace, and scope of transformation implied by contemporary articulations of the circular economy concept. Creating the policy conditions for sustainable production and consumption may require more radical policy formulations than CE proponents acknowledge.

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Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package

Fitch-Roy

Benson

Monciardini

2019

Environmental Politics

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“…The neoliberal model of globalization has expanded the concept of sustainable development to include a huge number of goals and requirements, making it overloaded and undervalued in terms of its relationship to environmental culture [1][2][3]. Despite significant efforts in studying such a phenomenon as environmental culture, attention is focused only on such elements as education, training, and enlightenment, and the sociocultural role of the state and society remains of little importance.…”

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Ecological culture: sociocultural and legal aspects

2021

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The study’s objective is to identify factors that can have a productive and positive impact on the formation of environmental culture. The authors use an interdisciplinary approach in the study. Thus, the methods of system analysis (methods of integration, convergence, structurization, optimization, etc.) focus on a comprehensive study of contemporary problems of ecological culture. Applying the methodology of legal taxonomy allows outlining the basic principles contributing to the level of ecological culture. Among the special methods, the method of ecologization is of particular importance in the study. The results of the study were the identification of a complex of factors. There are positive and negative factors among them. Negative factors are due to the lack of environmental values in people’s minds, the state’s perception of environmental relations as insignificant or secondary in the life of society, the rejection of innovative concepts of ecologization of economic activity, etc. Positive factors include the effectiveness of the principles of environmental law, the development of a system of environmental education of citizens, education of environmental responsibility, the collective search for adequate solutions to address the growing environmental risks, etc. The novelty of the work lies in the statement of the problem, which is that the formation of environmental culture is of paramount importance for sustainable development and environmental security of states and the entire world community.

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Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Hobson

Lynch

2016

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Programmes and policies for a Circular Economy (CE) are fast becoming key to regional and international plans for creating sustainable futures. Framed as a technologically driven and economically profitable vision of continued growth in a resource-scarce world, the CE has of late been taken up by the European Commission and global business leaders alike. However, within CE debates and documentation, little is said about the social and political implications of such transformative agendas. That is, whilst CE proponents claim their agenda is 'radical', this paper outlines its inability to address many deeply embedded challenges around issues of consumption and the consumer, echoing as it does the problematic (and arguably failed) agendas of sustainable consumption / lifestyles. Using the Sharing Economy as an example, we argue here that the ontological and sociological assumptions of the CE must be open to more 'radical' critique and reconsideration if this agenda is to deliver the profound transformations that its advocates claim are within our collective reach.

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Introduction: Between no future and business-as-usual: Exploring futures of capitalism

Cited by 7 publications

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Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package

Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package

Ecological culture: sociocultural and legal aspects

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

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