A Systemic Transition to Circular Economy: Business and Technology Perspectives

這本書將從多個貢獻者的多個觀點探索循環經濟（CE）商業和技術（B＆T）的兩個主要方面：系統和價值觀。超越線性經濟的觀點-傳統觀點-CE需要發展有意和整合的途徑，以幫助恢復物質資源並再生自然和人為系統的功能，創造更大的經濟和社會機會，並產生環境上的積極結果。這是否在CE和B＆T的背景下可行和可能是本書的核心貢獻。

本書的主要目標之一是提供關於B＆T CE見解的實用和基礎知識，結合系統觀點和價值創造，以促進可持續轉型和有效轉變的社會技術創新。

基於這些關鍵方面，本書分為兩個部分，第一部分從更理論和概念基礎出發，第二部分則從應用角度出發。第一部分的章節通過商業和系統轉型的角度呈現。在第二部分中，章節介紹了循環商業策略、流程、實踐和技術的真實案例中的機會和旅程。

Aldo Roberto Ometto has a degree in Production Engineering - Chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos (1997), a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of São Paulo - USP (2000) and a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering and Sanitation from the University of São Paulo (2005) about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), with a PhD period at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), in Denmark. Since 2006, he has been a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2011, he did a Postdoctoral at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. In 2023, he was a visiting professor at Griffith University, Cities Research Institutes & Griffith Centre of System Innovation, Griffith Business School, Brisbane, Australia, and he worked at the Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Nutrients in a Circular Economy (NiCE) in the Australian Research Council (ARC). He leads the Research Centre for Circular Economy (RC4CE) within the Innovation Centre at USP - InovaUSP, developing innovative projects with multi-stakeholders, mainly in partnership with the industrial sector, focusing on system and impact innovation, sustainability transition, life cycle management/assessment, circular business models, and circular ecosystems. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings, 4 books, and 26 book chapters. In 2018, he was the finalist of the World Economic Forum Award "The Circulars", in the Global Leadership category. He is a member of the FutureEarth Research Coalition - Circular Economy Working Group and the lead from USP of the Profiled Universities Network Program in Circular Economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Joseph Sarkis is a Professor of Management in the Business School at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned his PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Buffalo. He previously served as a faculty member at the University of Texas atArlington and at Clark University's Graduate School of Management. His teaching interests include topics in Business and the Environment, Operations, Logistics, Quality, Technology, Information and Supply Chain Management, and Multicriteria Decision Making. He has also taught courses on topics in Business and the Natural Environment. He has published over 350 publications in peer-reviewed archival journals. Topics covered in his research are similar to those covered by his teaching interests. He has also published over 250 additional papers as chapters in books and in conference proceedings. His research interests range from practical application research to conceptual and theoretical research. Currently, he serves on a number of editorial boards for a broad variety of journals including operations and manufacturing, technology management, production, environmental and information systems journals. He has previously served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Engineering Management Review and Management Research Review. He has served as special issue editor for a number of journals in which he has covered topical areas including Green Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Manufacturing Technology Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, E-commerce and Manufacturing, Agile and Virtual Enterprises. His publications include thirteen books, and two of his books include topics on Circular Economy and Facilitating Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation and Greening the Supply Chain, both published by Springer. He has served as a visiting scholar at various international locations including Cardiff University's BRASS Center, a visiting Scholar in the EU Erasmus Mondus MESPOM program and a Sea-Sky Scholar at Dalian University of Technology; and Visiting Professor and International Scholar at the Hanken School in Finland; and the Chair d'Excellence at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. He is a member of a number of professional organizations. He has been recognized as one of the world's most productive and highly cited researchers on the topics of operations research, general business, sustainability, and supply chain management.

Steve Evans has 30 years of experience in improving industrial performance first at Cranfield University, where he gained his first chair as the Professor of Life Cycle Engineering in 1998 and at the University of Cambridge where he leads the internationally recognised Centre for Industrial Sustainability. Steve worked in the industry for 12 years starting at Marconi Radar Systems and ending as the Engineering Systems Manager at the world leading ejection seat company Martin-Baker Engineering, responsible for design and manufacturing improvement. Steve remains industrially active as a co-founder of multiple cleantech start-ups. At Cambridge, Steve has secured over $20M in funding, always in direct collaboration with the industry, where he has extensive experience in designing, building and delivering industry-academia research partnerships with organisations including Toyota Europe, Nissan Europe, Airbus, Marks & Spencer, Unilever, General Motors, Morgan Cars, plus many smaller manufacturers. Under his leadership, the Centre has worked with over 300 companies. Throughout his academic career, Steve has demonstrated the capacity to build research collaborations to deliver high-quality use-inspired research underpinned by innovative fundamental research (e.g., the COGENT project with Nissan and 120 suppliers; COGENT Construction with BRE and 20 suppliers; LIFEcar with Morgan Motor Co, Oxford, Qinetiq etc; THERM with Airbus, Toyota and IES ltd., and leading the UK National Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability with Toyota, M&S, Unilever, Adnams, Riversimple and others). This approach has been combined with thought leadership, holding the first UK grants in Eco-Design, WEEE take back and product service systems. Steve is also active with government organisations (UK and international), informing policy at all levels. He has been the Co-Chair of the parliamentary Manufacturing Commission with Lord Bilimoria, Special Adviser to the UK House of Lords, and a lead author of the Government Foresight Report into the Future of Manufacturing. Steve has advised the UN on setting up industrial policy for 6 countries. Steve's thought leadership has recently been recognized by the invitation to become a Member of Academia Europaea, the leading academy of Europe.

Aldo Roberto Ometto擁有聖卡洛斯聯邦大學（1997年）的生產工程-化學學位，聖保羅大學（USP）的環境工程科學碩士學位（2000年），以及聖保羅大學的水利工程和衛生學博士學位（2005年），研究生期間在丹麥的丹麥技術大學（DTU）進行研究。自2006年以來，他一直是聖保羅大學（USP）的教授。2011年，他在西班牙的巴塞羅那自治大學（UAB）進行了博士後研究。2023年，他在澳大利亞布里斯班的格里菲斯大學城市研究所和格里菲斯商學院的系統創新中心擔任訪問教授，並在澳大利亞研究委員會（ARC）的營養循環經濟（NiCE）工業轉型研究中心工作。他在聖保羅大學創新中心（InovaUSP）的循環經濟研究中心（RC4CE）領導下，與多利益相關者合作開展創新項目，主要與工業部門合作，重點關注系統和影響創新、可持續發展轉型、生命周期管理/評估、循環商業模式和循環生態系統。他是200多篇科學論文、4本書和26篇書籍章節的作者。2018年，他入圍世界經濟論壇頒發的“循環經濟”全球領導獎的決賽。他是未來地球研究聯盟-循環經濟工作組的成員，並且是聖保羅大學在艾倫·麥克阿瑟基金會的循環經濟項目中的領導者。

Joseph Sarkis是伍斯特理工學院商學院的管理學教授。他在布法羅大學獲得管理科學博士學位。他曾在德克薩斯大學阿靈頓分校和克拉克大學管理研究生院擔任教職。他的教學興趣包括商業與環境、運營、物流、質量、技術、信息和供應鏈管理以及多準則決策。他還教授有關商業和自然環境的課程。他在同行評審的期刊上發表了350多篇論文。他的研究興趣與他的教學興趣相似。他還在書籍和會議論文集中發表了250多篇額外的論文。他的研究興趣從實際應用研究到概念和理論研究。目前，他在各種期刊的編輯委員會中擔任成員，包括運營和製造、技術管理、生產、環境和信息系統期刊。他曾擔任IEEE工程管理評論和管理研究評論的主編。他曾擔任多個期刊的特刊編輯，其中包括綠色供應鏈管理、可持續性、製造技術管理、企業資源計劃、電子商務和製造、敏捷和虛擬企業等主題。他的出版物包括十三本書，其中兩本書的主題是循環經濟和促進可持續創新和綠色供應鏈，均由Springer出版。他曾在包括卡迪夫大學BRASS中心、歐盟Erasmus Mondus MESPOM計劃的訪問學者，以及大連理工大學的海天學者等國際地點擔任訪問學者。他還曾在芬蘭漢肯商學院擔任訪問教授和國際學者，以及法國上法蘭西大學的卓越主席。他是多個專業組織的成員。他被譽為世界上的一位