This special issue is based on the international symposium Business and Industrial Ecology
held alongside the 2003 Business Strategy and the Environment Conference in Leicester …

In this article, we use Hirsch and Levin's notion of umbrella concepts as an analytical lens, in
order to articulate the valuable catalytic function the circular economy (CE) concept could …

The built environment puts major pressure on the natural environment; its role in
transitioning to a circular economy (CE) is therefore fundamental. However, current CE …

This theoretical paper clarifies the concept of sustainability learning and specifically
analyzes motivational aspects. Mastering the challenges of sustainability requires individual …

Circular economy (CE) focuses on resource-productivity and eco-efficiency improvement in
a comprehensive way, especially on the industrial structure optimization of new technology …

Sustainable development and the interplay between its ecological, social, and economic
dimensions can be regarded as a highly complex task. As a logical consequence, educating …

In the sustainability discourse we find much disagreement about the idea of sustainability
resulting in the unsatisfactory situation that this idea is limited by arbitrariness and therefore …

In a recent article of this journal, Robert et al.[Journal of Cleaner Production 10 (2002) 197]
define five hierarchical and interdependent levels for a systems approach for strategic …

Within recent years, various concepts have arisen in environmental management that
directly address the flow of material (and information) along life cycles or supply chains and …

Within industrial ecology, the life cycle or chain of activities forms an important basis for
analysing and reducing environmental impacts. This has led to the development of …