In the context of prevailing unsustainable production and consumption models, and ecological crises, a circular economy is often presented as a strategy for implementing sustainable development. In practice, the circular economy is employed in very diverse contexts, ranging from resource efficiency, product eco-design and integrity to the efforts of prolonging product‘s life cycle, repair cafés and post-consumption waste transformation into valuable materials. Yet research does not seem to always focus on explaining how these changes towards circularity are happening to the companies and local communities.
Our research is being undertaken by a inter-disciplinary team employing qualitative and/or quantitative research to investigate a wide range of circular economy activities both to expand the knowledge about the phenomenon, and to enable the communities where they conduct the research increase their understanding.
