How do scholars approach the circular economy? A systematic literature review
How do scholars approach the circular economy? A systematic literature review
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学者们如何看待循环经济？
DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.112
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Alessia Acampora
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Merli;Michele Preziosi;Alessia Acampora
循环经济旨在克服生产和消费的“拿走-制造-处置”的线性模式，提出一种产品、材料和资源在经济中尽可能长时间保持价值的循环系统。近年来，关于这一主题的学者出版物激增。本研究是一项系统的文献综述，旨在探讨CE的学术研究现状。本文用系统的方法考察了CE文献，以严谨和可重复的研究标准对这一现象进行了详尽的分析。重新查阅的材料包括通过科学网和Scope数据库收集的565篇文章，并使用特定的结构维度进行了评估，将文献归类为分析类别。从一个与工业生态有关的概念开始，CE在学术研究中逐渐获得了独立的作用，主要是在与环境可持续发展相关的研究中。作为政策实施的结果，学术成果主要集中在中国和欧洲，使用工具和方法来建模过程和支持CE实施的决策(如生命周期评估和物质流分析)。CE研究遵循三条主要行动路线：第一条旨在改变宏观和行政层面的社会和经济动态；第二条是在微观层面支持企业实施循环流程，以推广新的消费形式和产品设计；第三条是在中观层面制定的，讨论工业共生经验。CE与各种概念联系在一起，废物管理成为最相关的次级部门。行政首长会议还与可持续发展的概念密切相关，提出在环境和经济层面实施可持续发展的方法，而学者们只略微考虑社会和体制方面的影响。探索最多的做法是与清洁生产有关的做法，目的是在产品的整个生命周期减少对环境的影响和废物产生，并优化工艺的性能和效率。相反，对行政长官的研究可以更多地关注社会和制度变革的战略，能够改变生产和消费的上游过程。在商业模式战略方面，学者们主要集中在研究闭合物质循环战略，而对于需要从根本上改变消费和生产方式的循环减慢战略，对于CE的实施只有很少的涉及。这项研究的结果突出表明，行政长官是一个不断发展的概念，仍然需要发展，以巩固其定义、边界、原则和相关做法。
Circular Economy (CE) aims to overcome the take-make-dispose linear pattern of production and consumption, proposing a circular system in which the value of products, materials and resources is maintained in the economy as long as possible. In recent years there has been a proliferation of scholars' publications on the topic. This study presents the results of a systematic literature review exploring the state-of-the-art of academic research on CE. The paper examines the CE body of literature with a systematic approach, to provide an exhaustive analysis of the phenomenon with rigorous and reproducible research criteria. The revisited material consists of 565 articles collected through the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and has been evaluated using specific structural dimensions to group literature into analytical categories. Starting from being a concept studied in connection with industrial ecology, CE has slowly acquired its independent role in academic research, framed mainly into environmental sustainability related studies. As a result of policies implementation, academic production is mainly concentrated in China and Europe, employing tools and methods for modelling processes and supporting decision-making for CE implementation (e.g. Life Cycle Assessment and Material Flow Analysis). CE studies follow three main lines of action: the first aims to change the social and economic dynamics at macro and administrative level; the second to support firms in circular processes implementation at micro level to spread new forms of consumption and product design; the third, developed at meso level, discusses industrial symbiosis experiences. CE is associated with a variety of concepts, and waste management emerges as the most relevant sub-sector. CE is also strongly connected with the concept of sustainability, proposing ways to operationalize its implementation at the environmental and economic level, while scholars only marginally consider social and institutional implications. The most explored practices are those related to cleaner production, aiming at reducing environmental impact and waste production along the life cycle of a product, and optimizing the performance and efficiency of processes. Conversely, studies on CE may devote greater attention to strategies for social and institutional changes, able to transform the upstream process of production and consumption. Considering business model strategies, scholars mainly focus on studying closing material loops strategy, while slowing the loops, which requires a radical change of consumption and production patterns, is only marginally included with respect to CE implementation. This study's findings highlight CE as an evolving concept that still requires development to consolidate its definition, boundaries, principles and associated practices.
影响因子：
6.1
作者：
Murray, Alan;Skene, Keith;Haynes, Kathryn
通讯作者：
Haynes, Kathryn
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Pomponi, Francesco;Moncaster, Alice
通讯作者：
Moncaster, Alice