Embark on a transformative journey with "Mastering the Circular Economy in Cities: Creating Sustainable Urban Spaces". This essential guide presents a comprehensive exploration into the ever-evolving narrative of sustainability and circularity in our urban spaces. This book navigates the shift from conventional, linear models to innovative, circular economies, showcasing how cities globally are pioneering sustainable practices. By diving into a myriad of case studies, you'll gain insights into unique strategies, policy implementation, sectoral focuses, and groundbreaking innovations that are steering the course towards circular economies. Beyond these real-world examples, "Mastering the Circular Economy in Cities" lifts the curtain to reveal upcoming trends shaping the future of circular economies. From digital transformation and circular business models to resilient infrastructures and urban mining, you'll discover the forces poised to redefine the urban landscapes of tomorrow. But this journey is not just about witnessing change - it's about understanding the role cities play as active agents leading the transition. Explore how they act as incubators for innovation, policy pioneers, and hubs for stakeholder collaboration, steering the global momentum towards circularity. "Mastering the Circular Economy in Cities: Creating Sustainable Urban Spaces" is not just a guide-it's an inspiring call to action. Each chapter, each idea, each transformative solution invites you to engage, learn, and contribute to this vital transition. Whether you're a policy-maker, urban planner, sustainability enthusiast, or simply a passionate citizen, this book serves as your comprehensive roadmap to understanding and championing the circular economy. Join us on this journey today, and help shape the sustainable cities of tomorrow.

Global consumption of raw materials currently goes beyond the earth's regenerative capacity, but the circular economy offers a more sustainable model which also provides new business opportunities. Mastering the Circular Economy is an introduction to circularity from a business and value chain management perspective. With many reflections and exercises throughout, the book draws a direct link between relevant recent theory and practice and offers students and practitioners a deeper understanding of the topic. It looks at both the macro and micro context of the circular economy, from the government and societal view to the impact of new business models in an individual company. Starting from the corporate imperative of moving from linear to circular business models, Mastering the Circular Economy covers the associated opportunities and challenges for organizations, from regulation and risk to value chain collaboration, reverse logistics and product quality. Part two of the book helps students to pull together everything they've learned and see how the concepts play out in the real world by guiding them through application in the online business simulation game The Blue Connection (free basic access is included with the book). Readers are continuously asked to reflect on the choices they would make in different roles to demonstrate a full understanding of the strategic and operational implications of the circular economy.

Cities and regions play a fundamental role in the transition from a linear to a circular economy, as they are responsible for key policies in local public services such as transport, solid waste, water and energy that affect citizens’ well-being, economic growth and environmental quality. This synthesis report builds on the findings from 51 cities and regions contributing to the OECD Survey on the Circular Economy in Cities and Regions and on lessons learnt from the OECD Policy Dialogues on the circular economy carried out in Groningen (Netherlands), Umeå (Sweden), Valladolid (Spain) and on-going in Glasgow (United Kingdom), Granada (Spain), and Ireland.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe. This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consumption and waste; climate change; the health of urban populations; social inequalities and the creation of sustainable urban economies. It examines the different approaches to circular development, drawing on research conducted in four European cities: Amsterdam, London, Paris and Stockholm. It explores different development pathways and levers for a circular urban transformation. It highlights the benefits of adopting a circular approach to development in cities, but acknowledges that these benefits are not shared equally across society. Finally, it focuses on the challenges to implementing circular development faced by urban actors. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in the circular economy, urban sustainability, urban ecology, urban planning, urban regeneration, urban resilience, adaptive cities and regenerative cities.

Urbanisation and climate change are pushing cities to find novel pathways leading to a sustainable future. The urban context may be viewed as a new experimentation space to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Urban symbiosis and the circular economy are emerging concepts attracting more and more attention within the urban context. Moreover, new business models are emerging around sharing and peer-to-peer practices, which are challenging existing roles of actors in society. These developments are having an important impact on the flows of resources and the use of the city infrastructure, and each research area has taken a different perspective in the analysis of such impacts. This Special Issue aims to explore what a “circular city” could constitute and how and why cities engage in circularity. This Special Issue includes seven high-quality papers on the theories and practices of circular cities. Actors, concepts, methods, tools, the barriers to and enablers of circular cities are discussed and a solid base and inspiration for the future development of circular cities are provided.