Title
Modeling the circular economy in environmentally extended input-output tables: Methods, software and case study
Author
Donati, F.
Aguilar-Hernandez, G.A.
Sigüenza-Sánchez, C.P.
de Koning, A.
Rodrigues, J.F.D.
Tukker, A.
Publication year
2020
Abstract
A circular economy is an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention or design. During the last decade, the circular economy became an attractive paradigm to increase global welfare while minimizing the environmental impacts of economic activities. Although several studies concerning the potential benefits and drawbacks of policies that implement the new paradigm have been performed, there is currently no standardized theoretical model or software to execute such assessment. In order to fill this gap, in the present paper we show how to perform these analyses using Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis. We also describe a python package (pycirk) for modeling Circular Economy scenarios in the context of the Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output database EXIOBASE V3.3, for the year 2011. We exemplify the methods and software through a what-if zero-cost case study on two circular economy strategies (Resource Efficiency and Product Lifetime Extension), four environmental pressures and two socio-economic factors. © 2019 The Authors
Subject
Environment & Sustainability
Urbanisation
Circular economy
Interventions
EEIOA
Software
Policy
Scenarios
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104508
TNO identifier
869384
Publisher
Elsevier B.V.
ISSN
9213-449
Source
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 152, 1-12
Article number
104508
Document type
article