Circular Economy and Sustainability

The Circular Economy and Sustainability journal aims to bring a new approach of the key concepts of circular economy and sustainability, by combining the scientific disciplines of economy, management, engineering, technology, environment, and society. As circular economy is necessary today to promote the goals of sustainable development; these scientific areas are not independent to each other, but their relations, interactions and synergies exist and should be further developed and studied. Interdisciplinary approaches and multiple connections between these scientific areas are required not only to reach the sustainability goals but also to solve diverse environmental problems, expand technological limits and overcome potential economic disturbances. This approach is expressed with new policies (command and control, market-based instruments, and circular public procurement), technological suggestions (e.g. technical cycle solutions), environmental engineering technologies (e.g., waste management, 3r strategies, water recycle, wastewater treatment and reuse, renewable energy), circular business models, circular innovations, circular management solutions, consumers’ behavior in circular economy, new circular economy products labels and social acceptance in circular economy. These topics could be classified in three levels; the micro-level (firm-level engineering and managerial level), meso-level (industrial ecology, industrial symbiosis, eco-clusters, eco-industrial parks), and macro-level (general policies, plans, green and sustainable entrepreneurship).

First academic journal that puts circular economy at the core of its scope
First integrated platform for research on circular economy and sustainability that reverses the current fragmentation of circular economy and sustainability literature
Introduces a novel approach of circular economy and sustainability as two interconnected and complementary concepts that form a new multidimensional concept
Covers the gap of such a discussion platform given the rapid growth of the related literature over the last 5 years
Offers a multi-disciplinary knowledge base comprising a broad range of disciplines and solutions
Suggests a three-level analysis of circular economy and sustainability and the study of their interrelations: the micro-level (firm-level engineering and managerial level), meso-level (industrial ecology, industrial symbiosis, eco-clusters, eco-industrial parks), and macro-level (general policies, plans, green and sustainable entrepreneurship).
Suggests a new scientific dialogue and research agenda to strengthen the nexus between engineering-natural sciences with the economic, management and social sciences to solve circular economy and sustainability issues
Promotes innovation processes from technological solutions to economic, social and environmental solutions in the context of circular economy and sustainability
Proposes a deeper study of the social dimension of circular economy