ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR PROMOTING THE CONCEPT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Vasiljevic-Shikaleska ◽  
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Goran Trpovski ◽  
Biljana Gjozinska ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Activities

scholarly journals Green Deal as a Climate Changes Dam on the Road to Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Jevtic ◽  
C Bouland
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Public health professionals (PHP) have a dual task in climate change. They should persuade their colleagues in clinical medicine of the importance of all the issues covered by the GD. The fact that the health sector contributes to the overall emissions of 4.4% speaks to the lack of awareness within the health sector itself. The issue of providing adequate infrastructure for the health sector is essential. Strengthening the opportunities and development of the circular economy within healthcare is more than just a current issue. The second task of PHP is targeting the broader population. The public health mission is being implemented, inter alia, through numerous activities related to environmental monitoring and assessment of the impact on health. GD should be a roadmap for priorities and actions in public health, bearing in mind: an ambitious goal of climate neutrality, an insistence on clean, affordable and safe energy, a strategy for a clean and circular economy. GD provides a framework for the development of sustainable and smart transport, the development of green agriculture and policies from field to table. It also insists on biodiversity conservation and protection actions. The pursuit of zero pollution and an environment free of toxic chemicals, as well as incorporating sustainability into all policies, is also an indispensable part of GD. GD represents a leadership step in the global framework towards a healthier future and comprises all the non-EU members as well. The public health sector should consider the GD as an argument for achieving goals at national levels, and align national public health policies with the goals of this document. There is a need for stronger advocacy of health and public-health interests along with incorporating sustainability into all policies. Achieving goals requires the education process for healthcare professionals covering all of topics of climate change, energy and air pollution to a much greater extent than before.

scholarly journals Identifying Challenges and Solutions in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Amsterdam

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5547
Author(s):  
Nadia Pintossi ◽  
Deniz Ikiz Kaya ◽  
Ana Pereira Roders
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Knowledge ◽  
Manifest Content

Cultural heritage drives and enables sustainable urban development. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage creates values while prolonging the lifespan of heritage. Similarly, circular economy creates value while extending the useful life of materials and elements through their reuse. Existing studies on adaptive reuse challenges seldom focus on cultural heritage properties, and they are often identified through the engagement of a limited variety of stakeholders, as compared to the actors normally involved in adaptive reuse. Filling this gap, this paper provides a preliminary baseline of challenges faced by the city of Amsterdam from the perspective of various involved stakeholders, and suggests solutions to address them. The participants represented the public, private, knowledge, and third sectors. The methods used were the following: for data collection, a multidisciplinary workshop using the steps of the Historic Urban Landscape approach as an assessment framework applied to multiple scales on adaptive reuse, and for data analysis, manifest content analysis. The results expanded the range of challenges and solutions reported by previous literature on the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in content and scale by identifying 61 themes—e.g., knowledge and civic engagement. Tools and stakeholders were also identified. These findings provide a reference for future practice, policymaking, and decision-making, facilitating the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage to capitalize on its potential for sustainable development and circular economy.

scholarly journals Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natacha Klein ◽  
Tomás Ramos ◽  
Pauline Deutz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Service Delivery ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Organizations

The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.

Quality Control and Reliability Analysis of Remanufactured Automotive Products

2010 ◽  
Vol 29-32 ◽  
pp. 2233-2237
Author(s):  
Tong Zhu Zhang ◽  
Xue Ping Wang ◽  
Jiang Wei Chu ◽  
Peng Fei Cui ◽  
Guang Dong Tian
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Component Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Technology ◽  
Quality And Reliability ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Reliability Performance

reliability performance is an important evaluation index of product quality, especially for the remanufactured product. Automobile products remanufacturing is an important and effective technology method to develop circular economy in automotive industry. The quality control and reliability problem of remanufactured products are quite different from the original ones. It is necessary to ensure the stability of the remanufactured products qualification in order to eliminate the public bias that remanufactured products are second hand products, and enhance their acceptance and market occupancy. This paper gives the reliability requirements of remanufactured automotive products, points out the factors restricting the quality and reliability, puts forward the reliability performance at the product level and component level, and then introduces the FMEA, failure analysis, their relationship and application in automotive products remanufacturing.

scholarly journals Creative Destruction and Circular Economy. The Concourse and the Attitude of Phd Scholars

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Sándor Kerekes
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Creative Destruction ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Packaging Industry ◽  
State Of The Environment

The circular economy strategy is closely linked to the EU's efforts to achieve a radical reduction in the amount of waste going to landfills. It is wrong to think, that packaging waste should be used within the packaging industry, as many have suggested in the strict sense of producer responsibility. Schumpeter saw creative destruction as one ofthe preconditions for development. The circular economy should be offensive. The economy must be transformed from a stock economy to a flow economy to achieve significant improvements in productivity and material efficiency. The public discourse on the state of the environment is very diverse. I would like to show, through a short empirical study with the help of Q methodology, how PhD students have very different views on issues related to sustainable development and the circular economy.

TAXATION TREATMENT OF REHABILITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURE

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
C.T. Burrell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Impact Studies ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Environmental Activities

In recent times, the political impetus gathered by the greater public environmental awareness has resulted in an explosion in the volume and complexity of mandatory environmental standards imposed on almost all industry, but particularly on mining and petroleum operations.1 Pressure exerted by the public (including shareholders) requires that companies not only take their mandatory requirements seriously, but that they also voluntarily assume certain environmental responsibilities. These pressures have and will result in higher levels of expenditure for many companies in areas not previously incurred, highlighting the need for adequate taxation relief to be provided.The paper examines firstly the deductibility of rehabilitation and environmental expenditure under Section 51(1) of the Act. Further, it examines specific provisions within the Act available to all companies which relate to expenditure on environmental impact studies, or for the protection of the environment. The paper also examines rehabilitation provisions which relate specifically to the mining industry. The discussion includes consideration of recent leading cases such as the MIM Case and the AMC Case.While the paper looks at the deductibility of such costs generally, it is directed at the mining and petroleum industries and seeks to identify practical examples that would be encountered by petroleum explorers. The paper also seeks to identify weaknesses within the current legislative framework that adversely affect companies carrying out rehabilitation and other environmental activities.

scholarly journals Black Soldier Fly School Workshops as Means to Promote Circular Economy and Environmental Awareness

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9574
Author(s):  
Andreas Walter ◽  
Thomas Klammsteiner ◽  
Magdalena Gassner ◽  
Carina Desirée Heussler ◽  
Suzanne Kapelari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Protein Production ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Cross Link ◽  
Black Soldier Fly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Insect Decline ◽  
Citizen Science Project

Today, insect applications for food and feed are of strong economic, ecological and social interest. Despite their tremendous potential, insects still elicit negative associations in the mindset of Western consumers, which is attributed to a lack of knowledge and scarce opportunities for engagement in this topic. The citizen science project ‘six-legged livestock’ aims to increase the potential of the insect Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly), merging the topics ‘waste re-valorisation’ and ‘protein production’ as a cross-link to circular economy. Workshops were held in four school classes, involving 89 pupils, aged 15 to 18 years old. Making use of organic wastes, participating school classes ran eight rearing systems containing a total of 1800 H. illucens larvae. In the four-week experiments, the pupils monitored larval growth and development. Evidently, the pupils were highly motivated to run their rearing systems and fulfil their working tasks. Furthermore, negative associations with insects, including phobia and scepticism decreased, while excitement for the topic increased after hands-on work with the insects. The presented project may be considered an innovative approach paving the way for the establishment of insects as an important educational tool, since they are still underrepresented in scholarly curricula, despite the public outrage over insect decline.

scholarly journals Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10157
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz I. Almulhim ◽  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Public

Circular economy (CE) has been globally acknowledged as a national sustainable development (SD) strategy to confront resource shortages and environmental contamination challenges. Although public behaviors and lifestyles play an essential role in achieving sustainability, in developing countries, few studies explored the role of public awareness, attitudes, and lifestyles on CE transition. Thus, it is necessary to elicit public opinion to understand their awareness and attitude regarding CE strategy to determine obstacles to CE implementation and approaches of overcoming them. This study thus focuses on understanding public awareness and attitudes to CE transition in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey distributed to 402 residents of the Dammam Metropolitan Area. The results indicated that the respondents had little understanding of the CE concept due to limited awareness of the topic. However, they held an optimistic attitude towards trash separation and classified their trash as “can be sold”, “reused”, and “exchanged for a new one”. Furthermore, the respondents’ level of awareness regarding the CE transition is positively related to their level of education. In contrast, the inclination towards resource conservation and pro-environmental behavior positively correlates to the age demographic. This paper thus contributes to the empirical literature on CE transition by exploring the public awareness and attitudes towards its implementation in Saudi Arabia.

scholarly journals Circular economy strategies for adaptive reuse of residential building

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Cristiana Cellucci
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Single Component ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
The Public ◽  
Building Characteristics

<p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIOCxSpFirst">The paper deals with the issue of the regeneration of the existing building heritage by framing the problems that characterize the relationships between users-buildings-neighbourhoods in a circular vision. Circular Economy concepts are well suited to the building and construction sector in cities. For example, refurbishing and adaptively reusing underutilized or abandoned buildings can revitalize neighborhoods whilst achieving environmental benefits. A systematic review of the literature and case studies has led to the identification of three areas of action of the CE in the regeneration of the built environment: a Macro-level (the public space), a Micro-level (the single component), a Meso-level (the building). However,  the traditional approach of carrying out timely interventions aimed at responding to individual problems, be they of a structural, energetic, functional nature, relating to the building, the context or the single component is not entirely effective in terms of reformulation of the building characteristics. In this perspective, the paper suggests strategies of circular regeneration of residential buildings through adaptive solutions at room level, home level and urban in pursuit of human wellbeing.</p>

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