Transitioning to a Circular Economy

This comprehensive book addresses the multifaceted challenges posed by technological innovation, ecological transitions, and sustainable business practices. Drawing on extensive research in the circular economy and green, inclusive transitions, it serves as an essential reference for scholars, researchers, and practitioners.

In today's global landscape, quality of life transcends economic indicators like GDP. True well-being and happiness are influenced by a myriad of factors beyond financial wealth. Social and environmental domains are crucial to ensuring that no individual or community is left behind. This commitment aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, emphasizing holistic sustainability.

Provides a wide range of social questions correlated to digital and green transition Discusses ways of addressing challenges of education, sustainability and SDGs Offers a set of empirical applications related to energetical transition, ecological construction and circular economy

Autorentext

Conceição Rego is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics and a researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics (CEFAGE), University of Évora (Portugal). She has coordinated and participated in several projects in the fields of regional development, population economics, and education economics. Her publications span internationally renowned books and journals.

Maria Raquel Lucas is a Business Management Professor in the Department of Management and a researcher at the MED Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, University of Évora (Portugal). She is the author of several publications in national and international journals, books, and book chapters, she is also the coordinator of Masters in Applied Economics and Management at the University of Evora and at the National University of East Timor, as well as the Coordinator of the PhD in Agribusiness and Sustainability at University of Évora. She is active in several national and international projects involving transnational studies with Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She has supervised more than 150 master and phd students from different nationalities.

Maria Isabel Sánchez-Hernández is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Extremadura (Spain). She is an economist by the University Autonomous of Madrid (Spain), specializing in regional economics and corporate social responsibility. Her research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including public and social policies.

Luísa Carvalho is a professor of management in the Department of Economics and Management at the Polytechnic University of Setúbal (Portugal). She is also a researcher at the RESILIENCE research center. Dr. Carvalho has several publications in national and international journals, books, and book chapters. Her research interests range across several key areas within entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability, including circular economy and business models.

Adriana Backx Noronha is a professor and researcher in the School of Economics, Business, and Accounting at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Her main areas of research are in quantitative methods for decision-making in management, active methods of teaching and learning, and entrepreneurial training. She is the author of several publications, including national and international magazines, books, and book chapters.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Part I - Social Development: Paths for Sustainability.- Using the happiness framework as a catalyst for the green transition.- Neo-nomads and sustainability.- Rolling with the resistance to the circular economy? A contribution to sustainable consumption and social engagement.- It's only waste if you're not innovative: Understanding micro-scale circular economy practices as social innovations.- Universal Design Applied to Inclusive and Sustainable Economy For All.- Part II - Education for Sustainability and SDG.- EU GREEN: How peripheral regional universities created a European Alliance based in SDGs.- Designing new forms of business education at Circular Economy and Sustainable Business: an experience report on stakeholders' engagement through co-creation.- Teaching Sustainable Development Goals from theory to praxis in universities based on the theory of graphs.- Environmentally sustainable conscious students when starting up.- Part III - Construction and Energy as CE strategies.- Architecture for Deconstruction: a methodological approach to eco-construction.- Circularity of household-generated construction and demolition waste: management principles for green transition in Latvia.- Impact of home energy efficiency labelling investment on rent housing decision of students in Spain: A choice experiment approach.- Photovoltaic module waste and the circular economy: A comprehensive review.- Renewable energy production with a circular economy approach: entrepreneurial brazilian and italian case studies.