Pinyol Alberich, J., Llorente-González, L.J., Ramezankhani, M.J. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Using macroeconomic indicators to enact an ambitious circular economy. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 3 (3). pp. 1515-1544. ISSN 2730-597X
Abstract
The circular economy has the potential to promote systemic change towards a sustainable future. However, the dominance of technical and market-oriented considerations has placed the circular economy as part of an eco-modernist agenda, which retains growth in gross domestic product as the overarching priority. In this context, we analyse 12 existing macroeconomic indicators, developed and implemented by governments and international organisations, and determine if they could enact alternative notions of circularity. Specifically, we focus on the performative role that indicators can play in both defining and surmounting such reductionist views, thus helping us to address the world we want to create. We find that many of these indicators are agents of the status quo, but that some could disrupt the omnipotence of GDP thereby getting the macroeconomic conditions right for a more ambitious understanding of the circular economy.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Circularity metrics; Environmental sustainability; Macroeconomic indicators; Resource efficiency; Well-being |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 814247 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2022 11:58 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 10:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s43615-022-00232-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194399 |