The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy

1. Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition

Hanna Lehtimäki, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Ari Jokinen, Pekka Jokinen, Juha Kotilainen

Part I: Contextualized understanding of catalysts

2. Catalysts for urban circularity: reasoning by analogy approach

Ari Jokinen, Pekka Jokinen, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Marika Kokko, Johanna Kujala, Hanna Lehtimäki, Jere Nieminen

3. ‘ReCreating’ the construction sector for circularity: Catalysing the reuse of prefabricated concrete elements

Satu Huuhka, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Jukka Lahdensivu, Paul Jonker-Hoffrén, Viktoria Arnold, Erik Stenberg, Rijk Blok, Kjartan Gudmundsson, Patrick Teuffel, Angelika Mettke

4. Catalysing the textile industry toward circular economy: An ecosystem approach

Olga Dziubaniuk, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Eeva-Leena Pohls

5. A review of circular economy in Nigeria: From rhetoric to enterprise development

Muhammed Akanji, Nathaniel Amoah, Oreva Theresa Akpoveso, Oreva Atanya, Chris Ogbechie

6. Catalysts for transition to circular economy solutions in the bio-waste management sector in India

Bhavesh Sarna, Rahul Singh, Pankaj Singh Rawat

7. Plastic waste and a circular economy in China: Current situation and future possibilities

Jouni Havukainen, Mariam Abdulkareem, Yayong Yang, Mi Yan, Mika Horttanainen

8. The role of institutional environment in catalysing circular entrepreneurship: A cross-country comparison of Finland and Italy

Beatrice Re, Kaisa Henttonen, Ville-Veikko Piispanen, Hanna Lehtimäki

Part II: Types of catalysts

9. Regulatory catalysts for circular economy

Topi Turunen, Eleanor Reyes Mateo, Joonas Alaranta

10. Mission-oriented policy as a catalyst for transition to a circular economy

Lina Dagiliene, Jurgita Bruneckiene, Viktorija Varaniute, Justina Banioniene

11. Information as a catalyst for the circular economy

Nina Tura, Matias Ståhle, Tuomas Ahola, Jyri Hanski, Pasi Valkokari

12. Design as a catalyst for the circular economy

Lykke Margot Ricard, Sofie Bach Hybel, Sergio Jofre

13. Circular economy and finance: Either a straightforward relation or a virtuous loop?

Claudio Zara and Luca Bellardini

14. Core competences and core resources as catalysts for the design of circular business models

Davide Chiaroni and Andrea Urbinati

15. Artificial intelligence as a catalyst in the circular economy transition

Kang Li

16. Gamification as a catalyst to the circular economy

Georgina Guillen Mandujano, Marc Riar, Benedikt Morschheuser, Juho Hamari

Part III: Methodological approaches for catalysing

17. Mid-range transition arenas as catalysts in a circular economy

Tatu Marttila, Jani Lukkarinen, Sampsa Hyysalo, David Lazarevic, Helena Valve

18. Design thinking tools to catalyse sustainable circular innovation

Nancy Bocken, Brian Baldassarre, Duygu Keskin, JC Diehl

19. Scenario method for catalysing circularity and lowering emissions in the construction sector/real estate, Nigeria

Olumide Ayanrinde and Jeffrey Mahachi

20. Digital affordances for a circular economy transition: A multiple case study of digital technology-enabled circular business models

Outi Blackburn, Paavo Ritala, Joona Keränen

21. Accelerating the adoption of circular economy: An extended diffusion model for understanding consumer perceptions of circular economy products

Jennifer D. Russell and Okechukwu Okorie

22. Co-creation art to catalyse competencies for a sustainability transition

Juha Suonpää and Peter Sramek 

23. Utopias as catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

Marileena Mäkelä and Maili Marjamaa

Part IV: Conceptual understanding of catalysing

24. Toward a typology of circular economy agency

Satu Teerikangas, Tiina Onkila, Katariina Koistinen, Antero Hirvensalo, Angelina Korsunova, Marileena Mäkelä, Milla Sarja, Mira Valkjärvi, Noelia Reynolds

25. Roles of virtual intermediaries in the transition to a circular economy

Magnus Moglia, Christian Andi Nygaard, Olamide Shittu, Tmnit H. Halefom, Sean Trewick

26. The assembling of circular consumption: A sociomaterial practice approach

Elina Närvänen, Christian Fuentes, Nina Mesiranta

27. Catalysing a circular transition in Brixton

Joanna Williams and Josefine Hintz

28 ‘Regime-niche’ actors as catalysts in the transition to a circular economy

Rachel Greer

29. Catalysts in a sustainable circular economy: Directions for future research

Hanna Lehtimäki, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Ari Jokinen, Pekka Jokinen, Juha Kotilainen

Biography

Hanna Lehtimäki is a professor of innovation management in the business school and a director of research for the Center for Sustainable Circular Economy at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research examines circular economy with theoretical frameworks on strategic management, organisation theory, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She and her research team advance transdisciplinary social sciences research and societal impact in sustainable circular economy transition.

Leena Aarikka-Stenroos is a professor of industrial management and a director of the Research Centre for Managing Circular Economy, ManCE at Tampere University in Finland. Her research on circular economy is positioned in the multidiciplinary crossroads of innovation, technological development, and business including business-to-business marketing and ecosystems. She holds leader and specialist positions to advance ecological sustainability.

Ari Jokinen is a senior research fellow in environmental policy at Tampere University in Finland. He holds a PhD in administrative sciences and is an adjunct professor in natural resources policy at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include sustainability policy, focusing on urban transformations, circular economy, biodiversity, and the politics of nature.

Pekka Jokinen is a professor of environmental policy at Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on environmental governance, social change, and sustainabilities, and his current work concerns climate policy and urban circular economy. Jokinen has written on a wide range of issues in environmental politics and policy.

“For the last 50 years, we have come to realise that there are not only natural resource limits to our economic growth but that our extraction methods are – indisputably – responsible for global warming, ever-increasing levels of pollution, and dire health effects. However, despite all this data, we have been reluctant to act. In the last few years, circular economy initiatives and regulations have emerged as viable remedies to these calamities, but a deeper look often reveals a lack of a true systemic circular transition. This book is closing an urgent gap because it helps us understand the actual catalyzers of circularity and in so doing, once activated, long-term, sustainable change can finally take place.”

 

Gordana Kierans, EntrepreneurCircle.World, Croatia

 

“An impressive array of experts masterfully help us to understand and expand the role of catalysts to help transition from linear to circular business models across industries, regions, and approaches. This handbook is both guidebook and playbook, and provides both sides of the telescope – informative zoom-ins, as well as insightful zoom-outs to help us take the necessary next steps to begin the transition in earnest.”

 

Alon Rozen, Dean and Professor of Innovation, École des Ponts Business School, France