How Does ‘Locality’ Matter in Enabling a Circular Built Environment?: A Focus on Space, Knowledge, and CitiesShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment / [ed] Luís Bragança; Meri Cvetkovska; Rand Askar; Viorel Ungureanu, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024, Vol. Part F1844, p. 251-261Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
There is a growing interest in understanding and using local knowledge, resources, and stakeholders to achieve tailored and effective circular solutions in the built environment. Although the importance of clear centralised guidance and regulations are emphasised in the existing literature, there is also an emerging acknowledgement that understanding the ‘local context’ will be key to achieving tailored solutions that can effectively work in practice. However, there is a lack of discussion around the meaning and significance of ‘locality’ in terms of circularity solutions in the built environment. This discussion paper introduces space (both physical and social) and knowledge as two key aspects of ‘locality’ for enabling effective circular solutions in the built environment. Further, it argues that the cities can be seen as the locus of circular economy because of their role in localising space and knowledge. Thus, the paper enables a starting point to structure research towards an improved understanding of (i) the role of space and knowledge co-production for a circular built environment, (ii) the relevant local stakeholders, as well as (iii) city-level governance of locality in supporting a circular built environment.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024. Vol. Part F1844, p. 251-261
Series
Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, ISSN 2366-259X, E-ISSN 2366-2603
Keywords [en]
Circular Economy, Context, Knowledge, Locality, Space, Urban
National Category
Civil Engineering
Research subject
Architecture
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-103620DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_21Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85179682891OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-103620DiVA, id: diva2:1826913
Note
ISBN for host publication: 978-3-031-45979-5 (hardback), 978-3-031-45982-5 (softcover), 978-3-031-45980-1 (ebook);
Full text license: CC BY
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