Circular and Transformative Economy by Nhamo, Luxon; Mpandeli, Sylvester; Liphadzi, Stanley;

Short description:

The main aim of the book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability.

Long description:

The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.

Features:

• Discusses exploration of a transitional path to the circular economy, explored from the point of view of waste and technology.


• Explains transformational change towards sustainable socio-ecological interactions.


• Reviews provision of pathways towards sustainability through scenario development.


• Provides assessment of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.


• Presents cross-sectoral and multicentric approaches towards circularity.

This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in water and environmental engineering, circular economy, sustainability, and environmental studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

1. Understanding circularity and transformative approaches and their role in achieving sustainability. 2. Voluntary Agreements and Systemic Lock-in in the Circular Economy: The Certification of Sewage Sludge in Sweden. 3. Global Status of Circular Economy Adaptation within Wastewater Services: Transition Pathways and the Role of Innovation. 4. Transitional pathways towards sustainable food systems. 5. Strengthening the transformational implementation of national climate change adaptation plans to enhance agricultural resilience. 6. Progress towards the circular economy: Case studies of sanitation and organic waste-derived resource recovery technologies in South Africa. 7. The circular economy as a catalyst for environmental and human health. 8. Gender Norms and Social Transformation of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. 9. Sustainable water management: does gender matter? 10. Enhancing socio-ecological interactions to achieve sustainable decentralised sanitation systems: why people are not using technical solutions. 11. A WEF nexus-based planning framework to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. 12. Understanding the Nexus Between Water, Energy and Food in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation: A River Basin Perspective. 13. Catalysing cleaner production systems: Benchmarking with the COVID-19 lockdowns in South Africa. 14. Enhancing the resilience and adaptation of the education sector through intention awareness. 15. Summary: Creating systems innovation platforms for transformative pathways in circular economy.