Martin Calisto Friant (Utrecht University), Walter Vermeulen (Utrecht University) and Roberta Salomone (University of Messina) have examined the long history of circularity ideas and debates from the early 20th century to nowadays in order to develop the first 2×2 typology of circularity discourses to date. Their paper thereby maps and classifies circularity ideas from the…
As COVID-19 challenges us to rethink the systems underpinning the economy, yet circular economy and digital technologies have already been recognized as key enablers of the COVID-19 recovery, digitally-enabled ‘diverse circular economies’ now deserve more attention than ever. So what are ‘diverse’ circular economies? Check it out in the latest piece written by CRESTING ESR…
This week is the 5th CRESTING workshop, hosted virtually at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. The workshop is the fifth in a series of six workshops that will be delivered as part of the training of 15 ESRs (Early Stage Researchers). Over the course of this week, 15 PhDs-to-be, 13 supervisors, 1 project manager, 14 external keynote speakers,…
CRESTING Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Santiago Perez participated on the AScUS (un)conference, organised by the Sustainable Urban Systems section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology , in partnership with Metabolism of Cities and the IE University in Segovia. Santiago, in partnership with Mercedes Quesada-Embid, associate professor at the Catawba College (North Carolina, US), directed…
