Sustainability and the Circular Economy: Volume Two, Environmental Policy and Management covers the significant scientific gap between circular economy principles and environmental practice. The book covers multiple aspects, presenting relative strategies and policies at the macro-level. Providing a better understanding of the relevant social and cultural structures and the need for cross-disciplinary knowledge and diverse skills, this book includes theoretical justification, research studies and full-scale case studies to provide researchers, practitioners and policymakers in sustainability, environmental engineering, and environmental management with a clear guide for implementation and future objectives.
The circular economy is based on strategies, policies and technologies for reusing, recycling and recovering water, resources and nutrients to create a more sustainable environment. The increasing complexity of sustainability challenges means that traditional business models and social fields must work together as they cannot solely solve new challenges and make progress in sustainability issues.
- Links the circular economy concept to environmental management to achieve sustainability
- Approaches the topic on a macro level, following on the micro-level approach in Volume One, and from both production and consumption perspectives that integrate principles with practice
- Offers a range of theoretical and foundational knowledge in addition to case studies that demonstrate impacts
Alexandros I. Stefanakis is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. His expertise lies in ecological engineering and technology, specifically in nature-based solutions for sustainable water and wastewater management. He is known as an expert and enthusiast of the green technology of constructed wetlands. He studies and investigates the role of nature-based solutions in a circular water economy.
Ioannis E. Nikolaou is Associate Professor of Corporate Environmental Management and Performance in the Department of
Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. His current work focuses on linking knowledge-based
views of firms with corporate environmental management and engineering, circular business models, as well as developing
essential system dynamic models to explain strategic alliances of firms to face contemporary environmental challenges.