Circular Economy and Sustainability

Sustainability and the Circular Economy: Volume 2: Environmental Policy and Management covers the significant scientific gap between circular economy principles and environmental practice. The circular economy is based on strategies, policies, and technologies of reusing, recycling, and recovering water, resources, and nutrients to create a more sustainable environment. The increasing complexity of sustainability challenges means that traditional business models and social fields cannot solve alone the new challenges and make progress in circular economy and sustainability issues. This book covers multiple aspects of circular economy and sustainability by the formation of relative strategies and policies at the macro-level as a follow-up to the Volume 1 coverage of technological and development tools that realize these strategies in practice (micro-level), allowing for a holistic examination of the research and strategies available. Providing a better understanding of the relevant social and cultural structures and the need for cross-disciplinary knowledge and diverse skills, Sustainability and the Circular Economy includes theoretical justification, research studies, and full-scale case studies to provide researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers working in sustainability, environmental engineering, and environmental management with a clear guide for implementation and thinking ahead. Presents a novel approach linking the circular economy concept to environmental management to achieve sustainabilityApproaches the topic on a macro level, following on the micro-level approach in Volume 1, and from both production and consumption perspectives, integrating principles with practiceOffers a range of theoretical and foundational knowledge in addition to case studies to demonstrate the impact