The UAB publishes a book on circular economy for a more sustainable future
Joan Rieradevall and Carles Gasol, lecturers in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the UAB, analyse the keys to transforming the current economic model in a book published by the UAB Publishing Service. Economía circular. El camino hacia la sostenibilidad poses circular economy as a decisive strategy in achieving a sustainable development and offers a solid and accessible view of this new way of understanding production and consumption. The book is available in paper format and can also be consulted in this open access and free online version.
In a context in which only 7.2% of products and services operate according to circular criteria and in which projections point to an increase in the socio-environmental impacts of consumption, the circular economy is presented as a necessary and growing alternative. The book discusses the main challenges and opportunities of this model, while analysing the political, economic, social and environmental factors that condition the application of circular economy in the short term.
Through case studies, eco-dissemination tools, resource minimisation strategies and examples of environmental improvement of products and services, the book demonstrates that a circular future is both technically feasible and socially desirable. The book is aimed at students and professionals as well as institutions and companies that want to integrate sustainability into their decisions.
About the authors
Joan Rieradevall Pons holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences and is scientific advisor to the Sostenipra group at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB). He is a founding partner of Inèdit Innovació and Tectum Garden, and has been awarded several prizes, such as the City of Barcelona Award for Applied Technology in the Environment (1991).
Carles Gasol Martínez holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the UAB and is a professor of industrial ecology. He is also a founding partner of Inèdit Innovació and participates in multiple master's degrees and postgraduate courses in sustainability at the UAB and other universities, such as the UB and the UPC.
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