Survey of officials’ awareness on circular economy development in China: Based on municipal and county level

Public Awareness and Performance Relating to the Implementation of a Low-Carbon Economy in China: A Case Study from Zhengzhou

“…Most of the respondents claimed that their awareness came from the media (newspapers and magazines, followed by TV), with only a relatively small proportion obtaining information on LCE from public education programmes and discussions with friends and other people. The reliance on mass media as a source of information on environmental issues in China is in line with findings from previous research [18,20,21]. When being asked the importance of implementing LCE, many respondents recognised the need for China, as a major producer of GHG emissions, to take seriously its responsibilities to act to mitigate global climate change.…”

“…For example, two years after implementation of a ban on domestic plastic bags in 2008, 90% of respondents in the current study said they refused to use plastic bag. This finding is in line with a study from southern China where 70% of urban respondents now use their own recyclable shopping bags [28]. Outside of China the situation is similar.…”

A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy

“…Several sources in the literature point at the importance of the regulatory framework, mainly as a source of potential barriers against the development of such strategies, or as the result of specific policy action to foster environmental sustainability [3,26,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. With regard to the regulation and stimuli, the literature stresses the need for coherence among the different measures in use [52,53], to avoid discouraging innovation initiatives.…”

The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

“…The ultimate objective of this approach would be to achieve the decoupling of economic growth from natural resource depletion and environmental degradation (Liu, et al, 2009;Xue, et al, 2010). As such, the Circular Economy might be thought of as a general term covering all activities that reduce, reuse, and recycle materials in production, distribution and consumption processes (Cooper, 1999b).…”

“…Given its estimated population of 1.4 billion people in 2015, around 19% of the global figure (UN, 2014) known as a 'circular economy', the term was defined in legislation in China as a means of reducing, reusing and recycling activities conducted in the process of production, circulation and consumption (see also : Geng, et al, 2012;Xue, et al, 2010). The incorporation of a circular economy into the Outline of the 11th and 12 th Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development was an important step, allowing much greater support and focus on sustainability (Su, et al, 2013;Wu, et al, 2014) This inclusion is significant as the five year plan cycle forms the medium term focus for government policy in China.…”