Overview
- Addresses Circularity along product value chain and business supply chain with case studies
- Provides Circularity guidelines including framework, examples, and case studies for policy-makers, educators, business leaders, and investors
- Contains Comprehensive contribution with inclusivity in terms of age (1/3 below 35 years old) and gender (over 40% female) with multidisciplinary background from all five continents.
- Comprises substantial coverage of updated policy, research & innovation, education programs, and business practices on circular economy in the Asian region
- Includes Life Cycle Assessment and Costing methodology for circular economy practices
- Presents interconnectivity along the circular value chain and roles of different stakeholders for a circular economy transformation
- Highlights different driving factors for a circular economy transition including digital technologies, business opportunities & consumer service models, financing, circularity indicators & assessment, policy & regulations, and education
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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About this book
It elaborates critical driving forces of CE including digital technologies; restorative innovations; business opportunities & sustainable business model; financing instruments, regulation & assessment and experiential education programs. It connects a CE transformation for reaching the SDGs2030 and highlights youth leadership and entrepreneurship at all levels in driving the sustainability transformation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
She pioneered education programs of innovation & entrepreneurship toward sustainability, SDGs & circular economy in National University of Singapore (NUS), Yale-NUS College and KMUTT. She has organized various platform events in partnership with the UN, ADB , World Bank and other entrepreneurship related organizations in driving youth leadership and entrepreneurship towards SDGs and Circular Economy through the adoption of STEM knowledge, and Industry 4.0.
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng is the Chair of Circular Economy Taskforce and top four authors at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which is ranked among the world’s top 10 engineering and technology universities. He is a member of Enterprise Singapore (the Standards Agency of Singapore Government) NMC on ISO/TC323 on Circular Economy; and Standards Development Organization, Singapore Manufacturing Federation. He is an advisor to the National Environmental Agency’s CESS events. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Springer NATURE Journal Materials Circular Economy. His senior academic leadership roles include NUS University Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; and Founding Chairman of Solar Energy Institute of Singapore. He is an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; and ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology. He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK; and the TGMP from the Harvard University, USA. He is named among the World’s Most Influential Minds by Thomson Reuters, and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Cross-Field by Clarivate Analytics. Microsoft Academic placed among the top 36 salient authors out of three million researchers worldwide. He teaches ME6501 Materials and Sustainability course. He also mentors ISD5102 projects on reimagining and enhancing the circularity of Industrial Estates. He is a judge for the Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for the Global Prosperity. He is an advisor to the Singapore company TRIA which specializes in zero waste packaging via biodegradable plastics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Circular Economy
Editors: Lerwen Liu, Seeram Ramakrishna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8510-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8509-8Published: 19 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8512-8Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8510-4Published: 18 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 631
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 298 illustrations in colour
Topics: Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Sustainability Management, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Natural Resource and Energy Economics