Urban living labs (ULLs) are progressive forms of interventions that aim to fulfil the sustainability ambitions of cities and communities. They provide opportunities to translate new ideas into practice. The increasing interest among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in understanding sustainability transitions (ST) has brought new forms...
Real-world experiments are best suited for testing and validating novel circular business models (CBMs). Despite the increasing prominence of experimentation in CBM research, there is a lack of investigations on how firms manage and organize CBM experiments. This study aims to fill this research gap by examining the organizational capabilities need...
By providing a critical perspective on contemporary production and consumption systems, this cumulative dissertation addresses a glittering concept that is increasingly gaining attention, not only in corporate strategy designs, but also in economic policy-making arenas: the circular business model (CBM). In addition to digital technologies, they ar...
Funder: Jaume Freire‐González received the support of the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral program of the Generalitat de Catalunya ‐ Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca. / Abstract: Rebound effects have been historically studied through narrow framings which may overlook the complexity of sustainability challenges, sometimes leading t...
Published in Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
When approaching the study of new processes for leachate treatment, each influencing variable should be kept under control to better comprehend the treatment process. However, leachate quality is difficult to control as it varies dramatically from one landfill to another, and in line with landfill ageing. To overcome this problem, the present study...
Haciendo uso tanto de los estatutos como de un grupo particular de fuentes corporativas, dos registros llamados Deliberazioni e Statutaria, ambos promulgados en Florencia por el Arte dei rigattieri (comerciantes de segunda mano) a finales de la Edad Media, este ensayo explora un aspecto crucial de la economía circular, el de la regulación del merca...
Most frameworks for dealing with the complexity of designing for the circular economy have limitations in terms of correlating different domains of knowledge, correlating highly complex design strategies, and facilitating the process of design strategies’ discovery and development. This paper discusses how managers and designers can create products...
Este trabajo es un estudio de caso sobre cómo, en una gran ciudad bajomedieval castellana, los sistemas productivos y los hábitos de consumo estaban organizados para aprovechar al máximo la vida útil de las manufacturas y las materias primas con las que habían sido elaboradas, a causa de la escasez de recursos predominante en las economías preindus...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
For decades, renewable energy consumption has been presented as the ultimate solution to reduce pollutant gas emissions. However, their production, marketing, and, above all, consumption are not entirely climate neutral, so society needs new practices, such as circular energy, to achieve a more efficient energy transition (Khan et al., 2021a; Khan ...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Analysis of the current state of nutrient stocks, flows, and balances of a territory is necessary to inform strategies that can transition the agri-food sector to a circular economy model. In this study, we quantified the nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for the Bolivian agri-food system at national and regional scales by way of agro-ecological zoni...
