From local action to global inspiration: how communities around the world are shaping a circular future through collective, relational, and regenerative entrepreneurial practices. Building on the first edition of Circular Communities (2022), this second edition explores culturally diverse and community-led approaches to circular resource stewardship. These examples demonstrate how communities generate ecological, cultural, social, aesthetic and financial value by collectively closing resource loops.
In their new book, urban designer Els Leclercq, architect Mo Smit and regenerative entrepreneurship expert Fátima Delgado Medina expand on the Circular Value Flower: a value-based, relational model developed to analyse, communicate and design circular practices. This enables a holistic environmental approach by linking communities with the (urban) landscape and wider eco-system through resource stewardship.
Written for communities, spatial designers, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, this book offers insights and instruments with which to design, collaborate, and act - supporting global circular practices and allowing these to flourish, connect, and grow into valuable networks.
Despite growing policy interest, global circularity is declining — falling to just 6.9% in 2025. This paper argues that a key reason is the absence of a concrete vision of what a circular economy would look like as a physical place. To provide that vision, the argument traces a line across three bodies of work. Bauwens...
Steven Liaros· Journal of Circular Economy· 0 citations
Existing models for circular economy are typically designed for firms, often overlooking alternative governance structures, traditional knowledge, and collective decision-making that shape community-based organizations. Yet these organizations are key to conserving fragile ecosystems and supporting sustainable producti...
M. E. Picavet, Michel Xocaira Paes, J. A. Puppim de Oliveira· Organization & Environme...· 0 citations
Urban communities face interconnected challenges related to livelihoods, waste management, social inclusion, and access to productive resources. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increasingly moved beyond short-term assistance toward approaches that seek to generate shared social, economic, and environmental va...
Maya Desvita, Yoseph Budi Kurniawan· International journal of soc...· 0 citations
The resurgence of the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) as both a collectible and an alternative asset presents a significant theoretical puzzle: How can a physical product with minimal intrinsic value generate sustainable economic and cultural value? Despite growing academic and practitioner interest in collectible mark...
Jordan Kristanto, David Steven Macquairie, Muslihun Muslihun et al.· Jurnal Impresi Indonesia· 0 citations
Contemporary cities stand at the crossroads of structural challenges - climate change, biodiversity loss, growing inequalities, and resource crises - which make it urgent to overcome the urban development models inherited from the twentieth century. This contribution analyses two emerging paradigms of urban transformat...
Luigi Fusco Girard, Francesca Nocca· Journal of Circular Economy· 0 citations
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