FACE: Facilitating the circular economy with distributed ledger technologies.

拟议研究的目的是系统评估分布式账本技术及其在循环经济系统背景下的新兴应用，确定能够实现向循环过渡的创新数字技术和商业模式的机会领域，与相关利益相关者共同设计和开发此类商业模式和技术，以及评估其对环境、经济和社会的影响。因此，将回答以下研究问题：分布式共识如何在经济系统中实现循环？dlt在循环经济中的应用机会是什么？它们有多重要？如何对它们进行分类？如何评估它们的影响？dlt需要如何改进才能成为向循环经济过渡的有力工具？需要哪些新的数字基础设施、技术和商业模式来促进大规模循环经济？数字化循环经济对环境、经济和社会的影响和实际意义是什么？

The aim of the proposed research is the systemic evaluation of distributed ledger technology and its emergingapplications in the context of circular economic systems, the identification of opportunity areas for innovativedigital technologies and business models that could enable the transition to circularity, the co-design and development of such business models and technologies in engagement with relevant stakeholders, and theassessment of their impact on environment, economy, and society. Thereby, the following research questions willbe answered:1. How can distributed consensus enable circularity in economic systems?2. What are the opportunities for the application of DLTs in the circular economy, how significant are they,how can they be categorised and how can their impact be assessed?3. How do DLTs need to be improved to become powerful tools in the transition to a circular economy andwhat new digital infrastructures, technologies and business models are required to facilitate a circulareconomy at scale?4. What are the impacts and practical implications of a digitally enabled circular economy on environment,economy and society?