Abstract
As the world continues to urbanize, identifying and implementing new urban development models and strategies is necessary to face sustainable development challenges. To this end, the circular economy model can be implemented in cities in order to operationalize and achieve human sustainable development managing simultaneously, in a systemic perspective, the social inequalities issue and the ecological and economic crisis. Today there are many cities that are defining themselves as a “circular city” but, to date, a clear definition of this does not exist. In the transition towards the circular city, tools (such as evaluation, governance, financial, business tools) play a fundamental role. The aim of this paper is (after an analysis of the concept of the circular city and its implementation, starting from literature, official documents and reports) to identify and analyze tools for implementing the circular city model. In particular, a set of indicators to assess (positive and/or negative) impacts of projects and initiatives of the circular city agenda is identified.
Highlights
We live in a world of growing cities
The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse approaches and tools for operationalizing the circular city model
The research work of this paper has been based on a literature review, considering both scientific papers explicitly dealing with the topic of the circular city and the official documents and reports of cities that are concretely implementing this model (Figure 1)
Summary
We live in a world of growing cities. They are home to an ever-increasing percentage of the world’s population (today 55% of the world population). As the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities and this is where we need to find new solutions. They increasingly require identifying and implementing new models and development strategies. Identifying and implementing new development models and strategies is necessary to face many challenges related to the overall increase in costs
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