The Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University is hosting a One Day Conference entitled 'The Circular Economy: Transitioning to Sustainability', Tuesday 11th July 2017.
Invitations are open for Abstracts and Posters for this event. The deadline for these has been extended until 24th March 2017.
The conference focuses upon the emerging transition agenda around the interconnections between the circular economy and sustainability.
Full details are available at: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/Global/08%20New%20Research%20Section/CBiS/CE2S%20Conference%202017.pdf
Suggested topics of interest to Economic Geographers include:
• Food waste, food security and the circular economy; community growing; food sharing; food banks
and donation; food labelling; food loss and food waste from farm to fork.
• Upcycling; reverse cycling; second hand; ‘schwopping’; waste gleaning/picking and recycling
activities in the “informal sector” within the new urban structures of the circular economy.
• Policy and politics: the formulation of circular economy policies and their performance to date;
• Progress and constraints in the attainment of economic, social and environmental upgrading in
supply chains.
• Global production networks and uneven regional development.
• Contribution of technical and operational supply chain developments to circular economy goals.
• Do voluntary sustainability/ethical standards contribute to the attainment of a fair, circular global
economy? Where does power lie within supply chain governance? What effects does the locus of
power have upon the development of a sustainable, circular economy?
•Policy barriers to the circular economy and new thinking/new goals required; reforming policy for
resource problems not waste problems; implications for politics, government and regions.
•The implementation of environmental standards and sustainability practices within Global
production networks.
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