ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Towards a circular degrowth economy: Explaining the material valorization regime of city-regions
A transition towards a degrowth economy is necessary to tackle the related challenges of resource scarcity and waste accumulation. Degrowth pursues socio-economic wealth while reducing material flows and reusing waste in socially responsible and ecologically regenerative ways. As a concrete approach to realizing these ends, the concept of the circular economy has gathered political momentum. However, this model will have no impact on city-regions' ecological footprint unless it challenges the regulations that dismiss certain materials as waste in the first place. DECYCLE lays the groundwork for studying the regulatory frameworks that make it possible to revalue waste materials as a resource…
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