THE NEW CIRCULAR ECONOMY: VISION, STRATEGY, POLICY, PRACTICE
An Open Collaborative Public Policy Research Initiative: 2018-2020
- An Invitation. Eric Britton, ISG, Paris, 22 November 2017
"Wenn wir wüssten, was wir täten, würde das nicht Forschung genannt, oder?"
FIT: How does Circular Economy fit in when it comes to global strategic planning and public policy? The goal of this open collabor
ative search is to challenge our understanding of how to integrate and build on the body of knowledge and experience that is being rapidly accumulated under the heading Circular Economy – into the broader framework and goals of sustainable development, economy and democracy. Putting CE to work within the broader, research, planning, public policy agenda of concerned public sector agencies, taking into consideration oft-neglected social and institutional dimensions. OUTREACH: All parts of this collaborative initiative are open on line for sharing, contributions, consultation, comment and eventual assistance in organizing university programs, cooperative events, master classes and joint projects to the extent we can be useful. (See contact data below.) STATUS: Making progress over these last six months with trying to map and explore the New Circular Economy/Public Policy interface, in the context of our master classes and strategic advisory program on Sustainable Development, Economy and Democracy – see https://goo.gl/MgKfcG Here is how things are starting to shape up at this still early point. FOCUS: We have set out to focus on the concept in terms of three chosen supersets, again from global planning and public policy perspectives. (1) THE NEW CIRCULAR ECONOMY - as an emerging paradigm, body of knowledge, analytic strategy, experience and eventual tool set for the urgent sustainable development transition of the 21st century. With particular attention to placing it in the context of the deep history of innovation and earlier work by world-level economists, environmentalists, and NGOs which provide the solid foundations of the present steadily evolving concept. (2) PUBLIC POLICY - The potential of the concept in its many parts in support of and supported by public policy ( -- including the potential for creative changes to legislation, infrastructure, economic instruments, financial incentives, regulation and consumer behaviour. At all level of government and civil society, with an interest in local government and actors at the level of outlying rural areas, the village, city and region. (3) SECTORS - usefulness as an emerging policy approach and toolset specifically to explore and uncover . . . (a) the potential for opening up new perspectives on and approaches to issues of MOBILITY/TRANSPORT/SPACE for planning, policy and decision purposes;
(b) for the fast-evolving problems and possibilities in the new world of WORK; and
(c) TAXATION and ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS more generally as a strategy and powerful tools for effecting change. INITIAL SHORTLIST OF USEFUL REFERENCES: (in process)
* Our program overview and contents to date: https://goo.gl/MgKfcG
* Facebook: The New Circular Economy on - https://goo.gl/3i8hRg
* LinkedIn: The New Circular Economy on - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8617587
* C/E Newsroom - https://goo.gl/ee1p3p
* Reference Bookshelf: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AivPCmA_7fpkh_0qYfxT0IX98O5ivg
* Bibliographies (in process): https://wp.me/p1zD54-11f and https://wp.me/p1zD54-11B
* Selected videos - https://goo.gl/RhJoxx
* Professor’s scratch pad - https://goo.gl/NZJ5MN
* Core reading: (To follow. In the meantime, we propose you work your way down the current articles as posted under the Circular Economy tags to the left of each entry.) PROJECT MOTTO:
Wenn wir wüssten, was wir täten, würde das nicht Forschung genannt, oder?"
(Or . . . if we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?)
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