The Inclusive Circular Economy - Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Innovation

This open access book is a multi-disciplinary effort to address the complex socio-economic issues and the substantial environmental pressure that the expected large-scale migration will exert on cities in the near future. Emerging from a joint research project between China and the Netherlands, the authors herein put forward a vision for cities that the future demands while assessing efforts, recent and ongoing, in this direction. Building on the lessons learned from this research, it also proposes strategies and best practices for future policy aimed at the design and development of circular and inclusive cities.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Exploring the circular city: a bibliometric and definition analysis.- 3. Exploring the inclusive city: Definitions and dimensions.- 4. A conceptual framework for inclusive circular urban waste management systems.- 5. Managing the transition towards a circular urban waste management system.- 6. Accumulation of Circular Economy Policy in China: Goals, instruments and demonstration projects over 2006-2022.- 7.    Building the Zero Waste City: A Half Century of Efforts in Beijing.- 8.    Household Renovation Waste in the Netherlands: mapping the social side of waste flows.- 9. Business Model Innovations in Post-consumer Recycling in Urban China.- 10. Informal reuse, repair, and refurbishment business networks for air conditioners in Gangxia village, Shenzhen.- 11. Conclusion.

Product details

• Assisted by: D.F.J. (Daan) Schraven (Editor), Martin de Jong (Editor), W. Martin De Jong (Editor), Liang Dong (Editor), D F J (Daan) Schraven (Editor), Daan Schraven (Editor), Tong Xin (Editor), Tong Xin et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.07.2025
• EAN: 9789819668663
• ISBN: 978-981-9668-66-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Illustrations: X, 340 p. 60 illus. in color.
• Series: Urban Sustainability
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences