Building back better with synergistic climate change and circular economy interventions

2020 saw unprecedented responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediacy of the crisis, the severity of the consequences, and the non-uniform impacts captured the attention of governments, industry and society alike. Action was stimulated. A narrative of ‘building back better’ framed responses.

Researchers are invited to submit papers for "Building back better with synergistic climate change and circular economy interventions." Guest edited by:

• Raimund Bleischwitz, UCL BSEER, UK 
• Fiona Charnley, University of Exeter, UK
• Paul Dewick, Keele Business School, Keele University and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of Manchester, UK
• Young Geng, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Sarah Strauss, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US
• Zhe Liu, Institute for Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

BSEER Director Professor Raimund Bleischwitz said: 

I’m delighted to be one of the editors for this pivotal topic, wishing all papers contribute to a building back better and greener.”

The academic community has an important role to play in helping to design interventions that have a synergistic effect on climate change and circular economy (or, at best, a benign effect) and to avoid interventions that have an antagonistic effect. There has never been a more important time to consider explicitly how circular economy and climate change are related, and how we can design interventions to address both simultaneously.

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