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dc.contributor.authorFitch-Roy, O
dc.contributor.authorBenson, D
dc.contributor.authorMonciardini, D
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-23T09:53:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-12
dc.description.abstractThe circular economy (CE) concept is informing the governance of resource use and waste management on a global scale, leading to widespread policy instrument innovation. However, the recent appearance of CE ‘policy portfolios’ raises questions about whether such policies are genuinely path-breaking or are merely adjustments to existing arrangements. Tracing the emergence of the European Union’s Circular Economy Package shows that, while some measures are genuinely novel, many others are ‘patched’ onto pre-existing instruments and that the overall portfolio exhibits a high degree of institutional ‘layering’. Given the evidence of relative ineffectiveness of past incremental environmental interventions, there is a mismatch between such approaches and the scale, pace and scope of transformation implied by contemporary articulations of the circular economy concept. Creating the policy conditions for sustainable production and consumption may require more radical policy formulations than CE proponents acknowledge.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 12 October 2019en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09644016.2019.1673996
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/38866
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.rights© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectcircular economic governanceen_GB
dc.subjectpolicy portfoliosen_GB
dc.subjectconceptual recyclingen_GB
dc.subjectlayeringen_GB
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_GB
dc.subjecthistorical institutionalismen_GB
dc.titleGoing around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU Circular Economy Packageen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2019-09-23T09:53:57Z
dc.identifier.issn0964-4016
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalEnvironmental Politicsen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-09-21
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-09-21
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2019-09-22T05:27:16Z
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refterms.dateFOA2019-11-12T15:19:15Z
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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