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Anyone wanting to write something about the deadend of the current paradigm (motor traffic flow, induced demand, road building) and/or disappearing traffic? Transport transition... etc Kat - - - http://katsdekker.wordpress.com - my blog http://newcycling.org - Newcastle Cycling Campaign ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abiola Lawal <[log in to unmask]> Date: 2 February 2016 at 10:53 Subject: Circular economy in the built environment - Themed Issue Call for Papers To: [log in to unmask] To view a web version of this message, click here <http://comms.icepublishing.com/In/108071634/0/oCakcyY8zRdeY_I1zLU6Ybv2If1QL69b4BLdDPXGoSX/> [image: ICE Publishing] <http://comms.icepublishing.com/In/108071635/0/oCakcyY8zRdeY_I1zLU6Ybv2If1QL69b4BLdDPXGoSX/> *.* *Themed Issue Call for Papers: * *Circular economy in the built environment* . Dear Colleague, You are warmly invited to propose a paper for the themed issue of *Waste and Resource Management *on *circular economy in the built environment**. *Please *submit <http://comms.icepublishing.com/In/108071636/0/oCakcyY8zRdeY_I1zLU6Ybv2If1QL69b4BLdDPXGoSX/>* a 200-word outline of the article you would like to write by 29th February 2016. <http://comms.icepublishing.com/In/108071637/0/oCakcyY8zRdeY_I1zLU6Ybv2If1QL69b4BLdDPXGoSX/> The concept of the circular economy has the potential for profound implications in civil engineering and infrastructure development projects. It presents the challenge to go beyond a materials flow approach to focussing on the natural capital of all resources. The circular economy demands systems thinking. It promotes closed-loop, value-recovering manufacturing and construction methods that operate to ensure environmental protection and are financially sustainable. Organisations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation have provoked positive industry reaction from demonstrating the economic advantages of such an approach. The synthesis of four principles proposed as contributing to circular economy implementation are namely: - Material development and selection for re-use within production systems - Material recovery and reverse logistics for resource and material reuse (production and end-of-service-life) - Product design for the remanufacture of components and reuse of materials to ensure high-value systems - Business models and system integration to achieve circular economy principles. There is now a pressing need to challenge current practices and devise mechanisms to embed and future-proof these principles in normal practice. This goes beyond waste management and towards holistic whole-life design, construction, operation and dismantling of the built environment. This themed issue of *Waste and Resource Management* concentrates on new thinking, new evidence and new models that can help the civil engineering sector to engage and embed the circular economy, as well as specific challenge areas. In each case, evidence is sought where applications can be shown to be transferable across the sector, offering a step-change in resource use within the sector. To learn more about the themed issue and for a *list of topics*, please *download **the Call for Papers* <http://comms.icepublishing.com/In/108071638/0/oCakcyY8zRdeY_I1zLU6Ybv2If1QL69b4BLdDPXGoSX/>. 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