New business models for a radical change in resource efficiency

Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

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Beyond the limits: confronting global collapse envisioning a sustainable future

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Emerging Logistics Strategies

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Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs

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The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity

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The Second Law of Economics

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The economic growth engine: how energy and work drive material prosperity

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Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of False Bad News

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The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000

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Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

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Future of Business Models in Manufacturing

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Circular Economy Practices: A Case with Priority Selection Under Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

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Integrating Reverse Cycle Strategy in Circular Business Model Innovation: A Case Study

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Unpacking the value conversion in a circular business model: exploring the effect of competitive criteria

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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A Transition Towards a Circular Food Economy in Ghana: An Institutional and Policy Analysis

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A roadmap for sustaining marine minerals as the green economy transitions to the blue economy

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Designing a business model to reduce CO2emissions from construction machinery: Aligning business and environmental objectives

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Business Models for a Circular Economy: A Literature Review with Bibliometric and Topic Analysis

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Advancing the Circular Economy: Exploring landscape and developments for circular public procurement in Sweden and Scotland

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The Role of Logistics in Industrial Side Stream Utilisation – Case: Aqueous Paint Sludge

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Circular Bio-Economy Voyage

Rawat, P., & Singh, V. (2022) · International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development · doi:10.4018/ijsesd.290392 · Cited by 1

Regional innovations influence on the ecological footprint of the Russian Federation territories: case of the Siberia and Volga regions

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The Circular Economy Transformation of Eco-Industrial Parks: Developing New Industrial Parks for a New Paradigm

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Shedding light on sustainability practices: analysing the effect of circular economy investment on controversy and reputation

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Exploring the circular business model in the small and medium-sized enterprises: a business model adaptation perspective

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Territorial competition and circular economy

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Managing Innovation for Circular Industrial Systems

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Des modèles d’affaires circulaires pour valoriser des coproduits agricoles. Etude exploratoire de quatre initiatives

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Circular Business Model

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Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy

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Mapping the path of an inclusive transition towards circular economy: Local accelerator hubs as enablers of circular business model innovation?

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21. YÜZYILDA SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR BÜYÜME ANLAYIŞI DEĞİŞİYOR MU?

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Adaptation of Blockchain Technology into the Letter of Credit (LC) Arrangement: An Overview of the Sustainable Business Practice in Asia

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Sustaining Marine Minerals Toward Sustainable Blue Economy by Promoting the Inflows of Green FDI : New Insights From a Global Database

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Innovative circular business model as a tool for applying rational consumption of the natural resource landscape

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A Model Circular Economy as a Trend of Sustainable Development

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Towards biodiversity conservation in natural resource-intensive sectors: Understanding dynamics of social-ecological transformations

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The sustainable management of household waste : a decision-making framework.

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Casos paradigmáticos de PSS no setor de bens de capital – referências para complementar o uso de arquétipos e padrões para inovação em modelos de negócios

Gurian, C. T. (2021) · Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (Universidade de São Paulo) · doi:10.11606/d.18.2021.tde-15072021-103009

Categorisation of Industrial Side Streams for Reuse Potential Evaluation

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Circular business model: an investigation of value stream, barriers, and competitive criteria focusing on Technical Cycles.

Galvão, G. D. A. (2021) · Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (Universidade de São Paulo) · doi:10.11606/t.3.2021.tde-07102021-160020

The impact of the pandemic on the functioning of business models with an example of selected family businesses

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Introduction

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Investigating a connectedness between green innovation and ocean health performance in Vietnam

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Sustainability at the Summit: Transforming Haute Cuisine With Circular Business Models

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End-of-life strategy

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Introduction to Circular Business Models (CBMs)

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Unlocking Circular Prosperity: Assessing the Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy State of SMEs in the Western Balkans

Arifi, A., Ibraimi, S., & Abduli, S. (2025) · Springer proceedings in business and economics · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-04218-7_11

Reverse Logistics for Waste Cooking Oil: Economic and Technical Viability and Socio-Environmental Impact Towards a Circular EconomyPreprint

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The Circular Enterprise

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Smart City and Business Model with a Focus on Platform and Circular Economy

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Circular Business Model

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Towards a circular economy - how business model innovation will help to make the shift

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Ouverture de ‘Circular Economy & New Business Models’

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