Toward a Circular Economy Regional Monitoring Framework for European Regions: Conceptual Approach

Avdiushchenko, Anna

doi:10.3390/su10124398

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“…While the CE is based on the consideration of the negative externalities that the consumption of resources originates [9]. Therefore, CE is focused on how to avoid, minimize, restore, and/or compensate stakeholders [39,40]. The application of circularity in the supply chain has two main pillars.…”

Section: The Conceptualization Of Circular Supply Chainmentioning

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“…It is necessary to rethink the productive system, in such a way that CE can focus on the three Rs (reduction, reuse, and recycling), the 6Rs (reuse, recycle, redesign, remanufacture, reduce, recover), or the 9Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, recover) to achieve greener but also more efficient production processes, which would make them more profitable for organizations [39,[42][43][44][45]. Accordingly, CE has traditionally been associated with "sustainability" [30,[46][47][48][49].…”

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Main Dimensions in the Building of the Circular Supply Chain: A Literature Review

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Circular economy is an alternative to the traditional production model and has therefore attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. The change in the production system is accompanied by new logistical needs related both to resources and waste and to the distribution and recovery of products. The circular supply chain involves return processes and the manufacturer intends to capture additional value in the supply chain. In this paper, value chains have been mapped to visualize the links and interactions between the different stages and actors to understand the complexities of these systems and to make informed decisions. For this reason, and based on thorough literature review, the final objective of this work is to achieve a conceptual framework to study circular supply chain, which uses the main theoretical perspectives in strategic management literature. Four dimensions have been identified to support the development of these new supply chains—greater intensity in the relationships established in the supply chain, adaptation of logistics and organizational, disruptive and smart technologies, and a functioning environment. It can be concluded that to develop a new relationship capacity will allow for reaching more frequent, closer relationships with more actors. These relationships will be developed within an adapted organizational and logistical framework that is framed in new business model archetypes. However, dimensions related to the business environment such as sectoral, legislative, and fiscal frameworks must be incorporated.

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Main Dimensions in the Building of the Circular Supply Chain: A Literature Review

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“…The concept of circular economy-which has been defined and improved by different schools of thought-is not new and has already been developed in many countries over time. It has several origins and cannot be associated with a single date or author [13]. It began with practical applications for industrial processes that were developed in the late 1970s as a result of studies led by a large number of academics, thinkers, and entrepreneurs [6].…”

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A Proposed Index of the Implementation and Maturity of Circular Economy Practices—The Case of the Pulp and Paper Industries of Portugal and Spain

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High industrial development, new consumption habits, and population growth have led to a discussion, in the various sectors of society, about resource scarcity, pollutant emissions, and waste generation. As a result, and in opposition to the linear economic model in which products are eliminated after production and consumption, a new business model emerged, called the “The Circular Economy”. This model is based on reuse, recovery, recycling, and repairing during the design and use cycle of a product. This research intends to make a study of the circular economy in the pulp and paper industries of Portugal and Spain. This sector was chosen because, in addition to representing about 2.5% of Portugal’s industrial production, it has made significant efforts to promote environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, this research intends to present the situation of the pulp and paper sector within the circular economy, making an Iberian comparison between the years 2011 and 2015. This comparison is made through the development of a comparative index based on the results of some environmental indicators. According to the research carried out, the pulp and paper sector in Portugal was about 26% higher in the implementation of the circular economy than the same sector in Spain in 2015, with the peculiarity that this difference has been decreasing in the last five years.

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“…and detailed (focused on a select aspect of CE) analyses. Some are theoretical and based on a literature study [29,[32][33][34], others are empirical [5,35]. Some treated the concept at a micro-level [33], others at a macro-level [5,35], but some of the research combined both approaches [19,23].…”

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“…Apart from the theoretical context, the framework also has practical value. The author of another theoretical framework for CE measurement is Avdiushchenko [32]. She argued that the effective monitoring of CE is still at an early stage, and thus further research is urgently needed to propose indicators at different operational levels to evaluate CE progress.…”

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Statistical Evaluation of the Level of Development of Circular Economy in European Union Member Countries

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Stec²,

Miś³

2020

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In this paper, we have analysed the level of advancement in circular economy (CE) in the EU-28 countries. Firstly, we used a synthetic measure to examine CE advancement in EU countries in each of the Eurostat CE distinguished areas, i.e. production and consumption, waste management, secondary raw materials, and competitiveness and innovation. For the empirical analysis, we applied 17 Eurostat indicators to the CE areas. To find the synthetic measure in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, we used multidimensional comparative analysis, i.e. a zero unitarisation method. Secondly, based on the synthetic measures of the CE areas, we created a general synthetic measure of the CE advancement of the EU-28 countries as well as the countries’ rankings. Thirdly, we classified the countries into groups according to their level of advancement in CE, i.e. high level, medium-high level, medium-low level, and low level groups. Finally, we applied a similarity measure to evaluate the correlation between obtained rankings in two most extreme moments in the period of analysis (2010, 2016). Our analysis covers all EU member states, as well as "old" and "new" EU countries separately. Our results confirm that highly developed Benelux countries, i.e. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, have the highest CE advancement level. Malta, Cyprus, Estonia, and Greece are the least advanced in CE practice. Apart from that, on average, there is some progress in CE implementation, significant disproportions between the EU countries were observed, especially among the "new" member states.

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Toward a Circular Economy Regional Monitoring Framework for European Regions: Conceptual Approach

Cited by 37 publications

References 78 publications

Main Dimensions in the Building of the Circular Supply Chain: A Literature Review

Main Dimensions in the Building of the Circular Supply Chain: A Literature Review

A Proposed Index of the Implementation and Maturity of Circular Economy Practices—The Case of the Pulp and Paper Industries of Portugal and Spain

Statistical Evaluation of the Level of Development of Circular Economy in European Union Member Countries

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