Measuring the Economic Impacts of a Circular Economy: an Evaluation of Indicators.

ABSTRACT: A circular economy (CE) is often seen as a promising way to address pressing environmental challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. However, the CE concept remains contested, and the implementation of circular strategies (CS) does not automatically improve all dimensions of sustainability. However, assessing the economic impacts of CS implementation is crucial to making the transition from linear to circular value chains. Despite the broad literature on CE indicators, a critical evaluation of economic CE indicators (eCEis) that conduct assessments on a value-chain level is still missing. This study addresses this gap by critically evaluating how capable eCEis are of measuring the economic impacts of implementing CS at the value-chain level. We first id

SUBMITTER: Kulakovskaya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10317896 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature