Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12950324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Piero Morseletto (0000-0002-5921-4471, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 2165-2171 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sustainability Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11625-022-01208-w |
| OpenAlex | W4292657307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 44 |
A set of newly defined environmental principles can advance the sustainability performance of economic frameworks such as industrial ecology, cradle-to-cradle, and the circular economy. Currently, the environmental sustainability of these frameworks is mainly derived from the application of efficiency principles such as waste reduction, or closing and narrowing production, and consumption loops. However, these same principles can bring, in some cases, unintended outcomes that are detrimental to the environment. Efficiency principles also fall short of environmental sustainability aspirations, doing little to contribute to addressing the causes of current global environmental crises. This paper examines 7 widely applicable principles aimed at explicit environmental sustainability: doing no harm to nature, minimising environmental damage, restoring/remediating environmental damage, net-positive impact, no net loss, maintaining the health of ecosystems, and continual environmental improvement. These principles could markedly improve efforts to actively pursue sustainability and foster new economic forms that address our current unsustainable trajectories
Business · Circular economy · Economics · Environmental economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Environmental Sustainability Index · Harm · Industrial ecology · Landscape ecology · Natural resource economics · Political science · Sustainability · Sustainability organizations · Sustainability science · Sustainable development · Unintended consequences · Environmental Science · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Sustainable Industrial Ecology · Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |