Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy

Hanna Lehtimäki is a professor of innovation management in the business school and a director of research for the Center for Sustainable Circular Economy at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research examines circular economy with theoretical frameworks on strategic management, organisation theory, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She and her research team advance transdisciplinary social sciences research and societal impact in sustainable circular economy transition.Leena Aarikka-Stenroos is a professor of industrial management and a director of the Research Centre for Managing Circular Economy, ManCE at Tampere University in Finland. Her research on circular economy is positioned in the multidiciplinary crossroads of innovation, technological development, and business including business-to-business marketing and ecosystems. She holds leader and specialist positions to advance ecological sustainability.Ari Jokinen is a senior research fellow in environmental policy at Tampere University in Finland. He holds a PhD in administrative sciences and is an adjunct professor in natural resources policy at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include sustainability policy, focusing on urban transformations, circular economy, biodiversity, and the politics of nature.Pekka Jokinen is a professor of environmental policy at Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on environmental governance, social change, and sustainabilities, and his current work concerns climate policy and urban circular economy. Jokinen has written on a wide range of issues in environmental politics and policy.

• 1. Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition Part 1: Contextualized understanding of catalysts 2. Catalysts for urban circularity 3. ‘ReCreating’ the construction sector for circularity 4. Catalysing the textile industry toward circular economy 5. A review of circular economy in Nigeria 6. Catalysts for transition to circular economy solutions in the bio-waste management sector in India 7. Plastic waste and a circular economy in China 8. The role of institutional environment in catalysing circular entrepreneurship Part 2: Types of catalysts 9. Regulatory catalysts for circular economy 10. Mission-oriented policy as a catalyst for transition to a circular economy 11. Information as a catalyst for the circular economy 12. Design as a catalyst for the circular economy 13. Circular economy and finance 14. Core competences and core resources as catalysts for the design of circular business models 15. Artificial intelligence as a catalyst in the circular economy transition 16. Gamification as a catalyst to the circular economy Part 3: Methodological approaches for catalysing 17. Mid-range transition arenas as catalysts in a circular economy 18. Design thinking tools to catalyse sustainable circular innovation 19. Scenario method for catalysing circularity and lowering emissions in the construction sector/real estate, Nigeria 20. Digital affordances for a circular economy transition 21. Accelerating the adoption of circular economy 22. Co-creation art to catalyse competencies for a sustainability transition 23. Utopias as catalysts for a sustainable circular economy Part 4: Conceptual understanding of catalysing 24. Toward a typology of circular economy agency 25. Roles of virtual intermediaries in the transition to a circular economy 26. The assembling of circular consumption 27. Catalysing a circular transition in Brixton 28 ‘Regime-niche’ actors as catalysts in the transition to a circular economy 29. Catalysts in a sustainable circular economy

“For the last 50 years, we have come to realise that there are not only natural resource limits to our economic growth but that our extraction methods are – indisputably – responsible for global warming, ever-increasing levels of pollution, and dire health effects. However, despite all this data, we have been reluctant to act. In the last few years, circular economy initiatives and regulations have emerged as viable remedies to these calamities, but a deeper look often reveals a lack of a true systemic circular transition. This book is closing an urgent gap because it helps us understand the actual catalyzers of circularity and in so doing, once activated, long-term, sustainable change can finally take place.”Gordana Kierans, EntrepreneurCircle.World, Croatia“An impressive array of experts masterfully help us to understand and expand the role of catalysts to help transition from linear to circular business models across industries, regions, and approaches. This handbook is both guidebook and playbook, and provides both sides of the telescope – informative zoom-ins, as well as insightful zoom-outs to help us take the necessary next steps to begin the transition in earnest.”Alon Rozen, Dean and Professor of Innovation, École des Ponts Business School, France