Implementing circular economy in a regional context: A systematic literature review and a research agenda
Implementing circular economy in a regional context: A systematic literature review and a research agenda
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133117
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发表时间：
2022-08-02
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Ketikidis, Panayiotis H.
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作者：
Arsova, Sanja;Genovese, Andrea;Ketikidis, Panayiotis H.
地区是欧盟发展政策最重要的行政单位，迄今为止已被广泛用于制定和实施战略重点。然而，对于区域循环经济的实施，学术文献和政策文件都缺乏系统性。因此，本研究的主要目的是通过系统回顾和综合这一新兴领域的当前学术文献，揭示研究差距并讨论未来的研究议程，提高对CE区域采用的理解。该审查是通过使用 Scopus 和 Web of Science 数据库识别领先期刊中的相关学术论文来进行的。总体而言，通过审查确定了 82 篇相关论文，并进行了描述性、文献计量和内容分析。本研究发现，总体而言，区域层面上循环经济的采用尚未得到充分探索，这一点是由于在该过程开始时发现的相关学术贡献的缺乏所支持的。据研究人员所知，这是首次尝试在区域循环经济领域提供全面系统的文献综述。因此，本研究被认为是建立涉及区域循环经济建设的稳健概念框架的重要初步贡献，并为该领域的未来研究奠定了基础。
Regions are the most important administrative units of the EU's development policies and so far, have been extensively used for framing and implementing strategic priorities. However, when it comes to regional implementation of the circular economy (CE), there is lack of systematicity both in academic literature and policy documents. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the regional adoption of CE, by systematically reviewing and synthesises the current academic literature in this emerging field, unveiling research gaps and discussing a future research agenda. The review was conducted by identifying relevant academic papers from leading journals using the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Overall, 82 relevant papers were identified through the review, which proceeded to descriptive, bibliometric and content analysis. This study has found that generally, the adoption of the circular economy on the regional level is underexplored, which was supported by the dearth of relevant academic contributions detected at the beginning of the process. To the best of the researchers' knowledge, this is the first attempt to provide a holistic systematic literature review in the regional circular economy domain. Hence, the present study is considered as a crucial initial contribution in the direction of establishing robust conceptual frameworks which involve the constructs of regional circular economy and laying the groundwork for future studies in this field.