How can we further improve our understanding of the behaviours and risks that influence adoption of circular economy approaches?
Background
Question Group: Focused on advancing circular economy practices through systems thinking, behavioural insights, and material analysis.
Sub-questions: -What are the critical consumer behaviours with the greatest potential for impacting on the transition to the circular economy and how can they be influenced most effectively (e.g. to reduce food waste)?
-What socio-economic factors affect the likelihood that actors consider suitability for re-use in their decision making in relation to the waste hierarchy and circular economy and how can this be monitored and measured?
-How can our understanding of business behaviours relation to the circular economy transition be better understood and what are the key barriers to businesses adopting more circular approaches?
-How can we further improve our understanding of the just transition implications for people, communities, workforce and commercial organisations/businesses of the shift to sustainable resource use and a circular economy? And what are the tangible steps Scotland can take to ensure this just transition?
-What are the key climate adaptation risks, impacts and mitigations that need to be considered as we shift to a circular economy and more sustainable resource use?
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Environment natural resources agriculture research strategy 2027 2032
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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UKRI National Circular Economy Hub (CE-HUB)
Part 2 of Summary:- The development of the UK's first Circular Economy Observatory to provide a digital systems view of national resource flows as a foundation for modelling and quantifying potential benefits, opportunit...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on advancing circular economy practices through systems thinking and material analysis, providing a comprehensive approach to understanding behaviors and risks.
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ExPliCit - Exploring Plausible Circular futures
Circular Economy (CE) represents a new paradigm that is capable of pushing the frontiers of sustainable development by transforming the relationships between ecological systems and economic activities. Such a new paradig...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores different plausible circular economy futures and discusses implications, partially addressing the question on understanding behaviors and risks.
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UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub
Summary The National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub will be led by Co-Directors and joint PI's Professors Peter Hopkinson and Fiona Charnley to harness and scale-up the UK's leading research capabilities, provid...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to accelerate the transition towards a global circular economy, providing evidence-based strategies to understand behaviors and risks.