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View article: Grassroots initiatives for a bottom-up transition to a circular economy: exploring community repair
Grassroots initiatives for a bottom-up transition to a circular economy: exploring community repair Open
The role of grassroots community initiatives remains an underexplored element in the circular economy (CE) literature. Ignoring social considerations and placing focus on economic and nominally environmental goals detracts from alternative…
View article: Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy
Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy Open
Indicator-based methods have long been used as assessment tools in relation to measuring and purportedly enabling sustainable transitions. Common limitations of indicator approaches are well documented in the literature, and include both t…
A framework for a responsible circular economy Open
The move towards a Circular Economy (CE) from the perspective of a ‘just transition’ necessitates an approach which deems stakeholder knowledge and agency as central. Under this paradigm the transition to a CE is conceived not as a technoc…
Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university Open
We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications of COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims are to voice commonly shared experiences and conc…
Operationalising Urban Sustainability: defining, measuring and modelling. Open
Despite its ubiquity urban sustainability is a contested concept with no widely accepted definition of what it is, or what it should look like. This lack of consensus surrounding meaning presents barriers to coherent operationalisation to …
Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems Open
Since its conception over 150 years ago, entropy has enlightened and confused scholars and students alike, from its origins in physics and beyond. More recently, it has been considered within the urban context in a rather eclectic range of…
View article: Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins
Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins Open
The three pillar conception of (social, economic and environmental) sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous. With a view to identifying the genesis…