Green Circular Economy

​Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. His area of doctoral research is in environmental management. He has published more than 75 research and review papers in international journals on waste management. He has also edited 45 books on the environment and waste management with reputed publishers like Springer Nature, Elsevier, CRC and Wiley.Anamika Yadav works with the Centre for Science and Environment, a policy and advocacy think-tank based out of New Delhi, India. Here, she is working to find sustainable answers to the unsustainable food systems and a green circular economy. She is also a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her doctoral research explores the debates around the green circular economy. She also has experience working with social, academic, and research organisations in different capacities.Dr. Indranil Chowdhury did his MA, MPhil, and PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has been teaching at the University of Delhi for the last 19 years. His area of interest is Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics. Apart from Economics, he is also interested in Data Science and is highly skilled in the programming language R. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) in Shimla. His papers and articles have been published in various journals and national newspapers.Dr. Ravindra Pratap Singh, currently working as a Chief Engineer in the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), Govt.of India, is an astute leader with over 25 years of experience in the fields of Public Procurement, Project Management, monitoring/implementation of environmental and social safeguards, urban planning, solid waste management, wastewater treatment, etc. Ravindra has a special interest in Sustainable Development, especially in sustainable construction. He has worked with World Bank on Highway Projects in India and with JICA on a Japanese Govt. grant aide project at Varanasi. As an expert and member of the heritage conservation committee on the river Ganga, he was associated with the conservation of the river in Varanasi. Other than his profession, he also has a keen interest in the field of academics. He completed his graduation in the field of Civil Engineering in the year 1989 from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, his post-graduation in Civil Engineering (specialisation in structure engineering) from IIT (BHU) in the academic year 1991–1993 and got his PhD from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

• Chapter 1. Circular economy aspirations: Three strategies in search of a direction.- Chapter 2. The environment value system and green circular economy.- Chapter 3.  Circular economy and sustainable production and consumption.- Chapter 4. Green human resource management and circular economy.- Chapter 5. Economies of scale in green circular economies.- Chapter 6. Temporal study of the interrelationship between economics and environmental degradation.- Chapter 7. Cities as emerging centers in a circular economy: An assessment of Indian cities.- Chapter 8. Trade and management of waste.- Chapter 9. Carbon emission from liquid fuel and pollution haven hypothesis.- Chapter 10. The development practice and reform optimization path of green circular economy in Erhai Lake of China.- Chapter 11. Recent trends in biohydrogen economy: Challenges and future perspectives.- Chapter 12. Strategic planning and business sustainability in agribusiness: Analysis in a model farm in Brazil.- Chapter 13. Application of industrial ecology principles in and around cement industry in NCR of Delhi: Potentials, problems and possibilities.- Chapter 14. Challenges and recommendations for a green circular economy.