Enabling Circular Economy-based Climate-compatible futures: benchmarking, evaluating and monitoring for impact
Understanding determinants of endogenous and directed transformation toward the circular economy model, in order to make it compatible with the SDG:s, and accepted by industrial and public actors.
Background
As one of the pathways envisioned to help achieve sustainable development goals, the circular economy-based model has gained political momentum rapidly. Multiple stakeholders are adapting circularity principles and strategies in their practices. Creating an enabling environment for fostering the uptake of a circular economy model compatible with SDGs by industrial and public actors requires understanding determinants of both endogenous and directed transformation toward the circular economy model.
Aims and objectives
The research objectives are to assess:
1. The dynamics of bio-physical flows and cooperation patterns fo CE-based transformation.
2. The needs for evidence-based monitoring and evaluation of circularity performance.
3. Institutional drivers and impediments of the uptake of CE-model.
4. Synergies and trade-offs between transformational goals of climate-neutrality, circularity, and broader aspirational SDGs.
Project plan
Currently, the results of the research projects include (1) mapping of the institutional determinants of the regional industrial transformation towards the CE-based model and (2) assessment of data needs for consistency and coherency in climate and energy planning to facilitate the use of evidence in policy-making for decarbonization of the energy systems.
Applied interdisciplinarity
In this project, I interpret interdisciplinarity as an approach to research that incorporates perspectives, concepts, theories and methodological and empirical approaches from two or more disciplines or areas of a specialized field of research to advance fundamental knowledge or to find solutions to problems that are beyond the scope of a single discipline or research field practice.
Papers
- Henrysson, M. and Nuur, C., 2021. The Role of Institutions in Creating Circular Economy Pathways for Regional Development. The Journal of Environment & Development, 30(2).
- Harahap, F., Sani, L., Henrysson, M. and F. Urban. Impacts of National Energy Systems’ Planning for attaining climate goals: the case of South East Asian countries.
KTH Collaborations
Energy Technology
Industrial Economics and Management
Production Engineering
Material Science and Engineering
Duration
May 2020 – May 2022
Project participants
