The Socio-Economic Embeddedness of the Circular Economy: An Integrative Framework
The Socio-Economic Embeddedness of the Circular Economy: An Integrative Framework
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循环经济的社会经济嵌入性：综合框架
作者：
Rafael Laurenti;Jagdeep Singh;B. Frostell;R. Sinha;C. Binder
全球经济的特点是大量依赖自然资源的材料流入，建筑环境中使用的材料库存呈指数级增长，以及大量废弃材料流入人为汇。在这种情况下，循环经济的概念已经出现，有望使库存使用的材料循环，并将产出的废料流转化为有用的资源，同时促进就业和创造价值。这些承诺引起了政策制定者和工业界的关注和兴趣，并在社会上广受欢迎。尽管其明显的新兴合法性和传播，但仍需要进行一些必要的调整，以便循环经济举措能够真正兑现其承诺，而不会导致负面的意外影响。第一，从根本上说，必须与现有的正规经济完全挂钩;这意味着要重视自然资源的保护，并为物质投入流适当定价。第二，必须承认其社会经济基础。社会行为者的决策影响物质配置，而物质配置又反过来影响社会行为者;在循环经济举措中需要明确考虑到这一重要的反馈回路。这份简短的交流文件的目的是在可持续物质资源管理的广泛背景下探讨这些普遍存在的挑战。提出了一个综合框架，用于认识循环经济在实践中的社会经济嵌入性以及正式经济体系在实现其雄心壮志中的作用。
Global economies have been characterised by a large dependency of material inflows from natural stocks, an exponential growth of material stock-in-use in the built environment, and the extensive disposal of waste material outflows to anthropogenic sinks. In this context, the concept of the circular economy has emerged, promising to circulate the stock-in-use of materials and transforming output waste material flows back into useful resources while promoting job and value creation. These promises have drawn the attention and interest of policymakers and industry, and gained popularity across society. Despite its apparent emergent legitimacy and diffusion, a few essential adjustments still need to be addressed so that circular economy initiatives can actually deliver on their promises without leading to negative unintended effects. First, a complete entanglement with the existing formal economy is fundamentally needed; this implies valuing the preservation of natural stocks and pricing material input flows adequately. Secondly, a recognition of its socio-economic embeddedness is essentially necessary. The decision-making of societal actors affects material configuration, which in turn affects societal actors; this important feedback loop needs to be explicitly taken into account in circular economy initiatives. The aim of this short communication paper is to explore these pervasive challenges in a broad context of sustainable physical resource management. An integrative framework for recognising the socio-economic embeddedness of the circular economy in practice and the role of the formal economic system in realising its ambitions is proposed.