The Guide to the Circular Economy
Subtitle: Capturing Value and Managing Material Risk
By: editors, Jonny Hazell, Julie Hill
Contributors: Hazell, Jonny, author; Hill, Julie, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781351274364
Subjects: Economics; Environmental policy; Natural resources; Sustainable development; Économie politique; Environnement; Politique gouvernementale; Ressources naturelles; Développement durable
Description: "The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures - price-driven, political and environmental. Delivering the circular economy can bring direct costs savings to businesses, reduce risk and offer reputational advantages, and can therefore be a market differentiator - but working out what counts as "circular" activity for an individual business, as against the entire economy or individual products, is not straightforward. This guide to the circular economy gives examples of what this new business model looks like in practice, and showcases businesses opportunities around circular activity. It also: explores the debate around circular economy metrics and indicators and helps you assess your current level of circularity, set priorities and measure success; equips readers to make the links between their own company's initiatives and those of others, making those activities count by influencing actors across the supply chain; outlines the conditions that have enabled other companies to change the system in which they operate. Finally, this expert short work sets the circular economy in a political and business context, so you understand where it has come from and where it is going."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction -- A New Model for Business and Society  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter 1 Getting Hold of the Key Concepts  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter 2 Seeing the Benefits and Interpreting Them to Colleagues: Some Case Studies  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter 3 Reviewing Your Organisation's Potential for Implementing More Circular Approaches  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter 4 Identifying Priorities and Measuring Success  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter 5 Making Best Use of the Brokering Organisations  -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill; title: chapter Conclusion -- Dustin Benton Jonny Hazell Julie Hill.