All Outputs (17)

Policy Considerations for a Circular Economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Vermeulen, W. J., Friant, M. C., Campbell-Johnston, K., Deutz, P., Newsholme, A., Pusz, M., Klein, N., Ramos, T. B., Tena, A. D., & Thapa, K. (2024). Policy Considerations for a Circular Economy. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (173-202). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-8

Circular economy (CE) policies have been developed at all levels of government and address key actors in diverse ways. Some of the policies have a longer history initiated as elements of predecessors of the current CE policies, while others were impl... Read More about Policy Considerations for a Circular Economy.

Approaches to Circular Economy Research (2024)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Caeiro, S., Lindgreen, E. R., Thapa, K., Walker, A. M., & Pusz, M. (2024). Approaches to Circular Economy Research. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (13-44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-2

Understanding and developing a circular economy (CE) and the implications for doing so involves communication and collaboration across a wide variety of stakeholders. Research has a key role to play in providing the relevant evidence and well-founded... Read More about Approaches to Circular Economy Research.

Introduction: Exploring the sustainability implications of a circular economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Vermeulen, W. J., Baumgartner, R. J., Ramos, T. B., & Raggi, A. (2024). Introduction: Exploring the sustainability implications of a circular economy. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (1-12). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-1

This chapter introduces the understandings of a circular economy (CE) and sustainability that guided the research. A CE is considered a resource efficiency measure that has evolved from a number of previous approaches to gain policy prominence as an... Read More about Introduction: Exploring the sustainability implications of a circular economy.

Exploring the Role of Companies in Transitioning to a Sustainable and Circular Future: Insights and Reflections (2024)
Book Chapter
Baumgartner, R. J., Deutz, P., Delgadillo, E., Tena, A. D., Newsholme, A., Lindgreen, E. R., Santa-Maria, T., Walker, A. M., & Reyes, T. (2024). Exploring the Role of Companies in Transitioning to a Sustainable and Circular Future: Insights and Reflections. In Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (64-95). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-4

This chapter explores the pivotal role of companies in driving the transition towards a sustainable and circular economy (CE). It focuses on how companies, as unique social systems aimed at generating economic value, can and have to shoulder social a... Read More about Exploring the Role of Companies in Transitioning to a Sustainable and Circular Future: Insights and Reflections.

Conclusions: Emerging understandings of circular economy realities (2024)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Vermeulen, W. J., Baumgartner, R. J., Ramos, T. B., & Raggi, A. (2024). Conclusions: Emerging understandings of circular economy realities. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (203-213). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-9

Following the findings and discussions presented in the previous chapters, this concluding chapter sums up the emerging reality of circular economy (CE) development. The research indicates that while there have been widespread efforts to implement as... Read More about Conclusions: Emerging understandings of circular economy realities.

Socio-Spatial Dimensions of a Circular Economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Jonas, A. E., Brullot, S., Friant, M. C., Pusz, M., Newsholme, A., Perez, S., Rogers, H. A., & Thapa, K. (2024). Socio-Spatial Dimensions of a Circular Economy. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (123-148). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-6

Interest in the transformative potential of a circular economy (CE) has emphasised economic and environmental benefits with relatively little attention paid to how the changes anticipated might be distributed either spatially or socially. This chapte... Read More about Socio-Spatial Dimensions of a Circular Economy.

Emerging Indications of Employment in a Circular Economy: A synthesis of European case studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Rogers, H. A., Diaz, A., Klein, N., Opferkuch, K., Newsholme, A., Jonas, A. E., & Ramos, T. B. (2024). Emerging Indications of Employment in a Circular Economy: A synthesis of European case studies. In P. Deutz, W. J. Vermeulen, R. J. Baumgartner, T. B. Ramos, & A. Raggi (Eds.), Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (149-172). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631-7

The potential for job creation is widely assumed to follow from the greening of the economy by means such as a circular economy (CE). There have been efforts to quantify the number of jobs potentially arising from a CE, but the nature, distribution a... Read More about Emerging Indications of Employment in a Circular Economy: A synthesis of European case studies.

Low-key bioeconomies: The case of farmers markets in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire (2024)
Book Chapter
Sotiropoulou, I., & Deutz, P. (2024). Low-key bioeconomies: The case of farmers markets in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. In V. Kumar Garg, & N. Kataria (Eds.), Bioeconomy for Sustainability (319-348). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1837-5_14

This chapter explores forms of the bioeconomy that are small scale, use limited amount of resources, and are managed by very small businesses, participating in distribution networks outside the big supply chains. These economic activities not only fu... Read More about Low-key bioeconomies: The case of farmers markets in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Coping with Change: (Re) Evolution of Waste Management in Local Authorities in England (2021)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., & Kildunne, A. (2021). Coping with Change: (Re) Evolution of Waste Management in Local Authorities in England. In W. Guo, H. Hao Ngo, R. Y. Surampalli, & T. C. Zhang (Eds.), Sustainable Resource Management, Volume I: Technologies for Recovery and Reuse of Energy and Waste Materials, I (47-82). Weinheim: John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527825394.ch3

In the context of ambitions for a circular economy, there is need for a fundamental transition in resource recovery practices. However, whilst the sustainability transitions literature focuses on the transition toward a more sustainable future, polic... Read More about Coping with Change: (Re) Evolution of Waste Management in Local Authorities in England.

Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate (2020)
Book Chapter
Cecchin, A., Salomone, R., Deutz, P., Raggi, A., & Cutaia, L. (2020). Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate. In R. Salomone, A. Cecchin, P. Deutz, A. Raggi, & L. Cutaia (Eds.), Industrial Symbiosis for the Circular Economy : Operational Experiences, Best Practices and Obstacles to a Collaborative Business Approach (1-25). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36660-5_1

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a business-focused collaborative approach oriented towards resource efficiency that has been theorised and studied mainly over the last twenty-five years. Recently, IS seems to have found a renewed impetus in the framewor... Read More about Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate.

Circular Economy (2019)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P. (2020). Circular Economy. In A. Kobayashi (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (193-201). (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10630-4

A circular economy is an economic system designed with the intention that maximum use is extracted from resources and minimum waste is generated for disposal. Although some circular economy practices are already well established in some places (chief... Read More about Circular Economy.

Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape (2019)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Baxter, H., & Gibbs, D. (2019). Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape. In L. E. Macaskie, D. J. Sapsford, & W. M. Mayes (Eds.), Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy (375-394). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353-00375

The development of a Circular Economy, whereby resources are kept in circulation for the extraction of maximum value, has captured extensive policy and academic attention. The circularisation of material flows is likely to prove a task for a generati... Read More about Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape.

Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia (2017)
Book Chapter
Majid Cooke, F., Hezri, A. A., Azmi, R., Morent Mukit, R., Jensen, P. D., & Deutz, P. (2017). Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia. In A. McGregor, L. Law, & F. Miller (Eds.), Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development (330-341). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315726106-29

This chapter examines the decision to cultivate oil palm under the different conditions that independent smallholders experience in the East Malaysian oil palm frontier. It provides a different context in which oil palm is produced, a setting grappli... Read More about Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia.

UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: A multi-level approach to policy transfer analysis (2015)
Book Chapter
Wang, Q., Deutz, P., & Gibbs, D. (2015). UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: A multi-level approach to policy transfer analysis. In P. Deutz, D. I. Lyons, & J. Bi (Eds.), International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology (89-107). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781003572.00014

6. UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: a multi--level approach to policy transfer analysis Qiaozhi Wang, Pauline Deutz and David Gibbs INTRODUCTION Over the last two decades there has been substantial research on both the potential a….

Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology (2015)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., & Lyons, D. I. (2015). Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology. In P. Deutz, D. I. Lyons, & J. Bi (Eds.), International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology (1-11). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781003572.00009

Abstract: The aim of this book is to promote a debate about the relationship between industrial ecology (IE), as a business, community and academic endeavour, and the places in the world where examples of industrial ecology can be found. We present a... Read More about Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology.

Food for thought: seeking the essence of Industrial Symbiosis (2014)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P. (2014). Food for thought: seeking the essence of Industrial Symbiosis. In R. Salomone, & G. Saija (Eds.), Pathways to Environmental Sustainability : Methodologies and Experiences (3-11). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03826-1_1

Researchers and practitioners would benefit from a definition of industrial symbiosis which clearly distinguishes essential from contingent characteristics. The definition also needs to be translatable between both language and policy contexts. Indus... Read More about Food for thought: seeking the essence of Industrial Symbiosis.

A 'symbiosis effect' perspective to understand reverse logistics and household recycling waste systems
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Grant, D., Nicholson, J., & A-Jalil, E. E. A 'symbiosis effect' perspective to understand reverse logistics and household recycling waste systems.

Paper presented at 19th ISL, 2014, Ho Chi Minh The essence of the problem with waste is that it is by definition something that is not wanted. We argue here that achieving a sustainable solution requires consideration of both regulatory responsibilit... Read More about A 'symbiosis effect' perspective to understand reverse logistics and household recycling waste systems.