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<p>Waste management is critical for addressing interconnected social and environmental crises associated with urbanisation, pollution, and climate change. Circular Economy (CE) is a popular approach in policy-making and the private sector to re-envision waste management beyond current take-make-dispose models. Despite the potential to promote radical reconfiguration of unsustainable regimes of resource extraction and consumerism, CE is critiqued as a techno-centric, top-down model with ambiguous environmental and social outcomes, particularly for marginalised communities in the Global South. This paper develops a transformative approach to CE transitions integrating systems change and social justice dimensions, informed by CE, sustainability transitions, and participatory design literatures. Based on a review of 33 empirical cases centring Global South perspectives, we propose and illustrate 10 transformative principles. We conclude that these principles offer a promising, sustainable, and just approach to operationalise CE in Global South contexts whose relevance should be tested through deliberate design of CE initiatives.</p>

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Transformative principles for circular economy transitions in the Global South

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年6月3日

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  • Paris Hadfield,
  • Dianty Ningrum,
  • Bagus Aditya,
  • Britta Denise Hardesty,
  • Jane Holden,
  • Tanvi Maheshwari,
  • Dwinanti Rika Marthanty,
  • Osha Ombasta,
  • Michaela Prescott,
  • Cindy Priadi,
  • Carissa Eukairin Purnomo,
  • Diego Ramirez-Lovering,
  • Melissa Skidmore,
  • Reni Suwarso,
  • Dicky Tanumihardja,
  • Farhan Dzakwan Taufik,
  • Tony Wong,
  • Rob Raven

摘要

Waste management is critical for addressing interconnected social and environmental crises associated with urbanisation, pollution, and climate change. Circular Economy (CE) is a popular approach in policy-making and the private sector to re-envision waste management beyond current take-make-dispose models. Despite the potential to promote radical reconfiguration of unsustainable regimes of resource extraction and consumerism, CE is critiqued as a techno-centric, top-down model with ambiguous environmental and social outcomes, particularly for marginalised communities in the Global South. This paper develops a transformative approach to CE transitions integrating systems change and social justice dimensions, informed by CE, sustainability transitions, and participatory design literatures. Based on a review of 33 empirical cases centring Global South perspectives, we propose and illustrate 10 transformative principles. We conclude that these principles offer a promising, sustainable, and just approach to operationalise CE in Global South contexts whose relevance should be tested through deliberate design of CE initiatives.