Circular Economy and Its Planning Theory and Methods: A New Discipline, New Concepts, and New Approaches to Building a Harmonious Society

Author: Cui Tiening
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Developing a circular economy and building a circular society are one of the important contents of implementing the scientific development concept and building a harmonious society. They are the government's decision-making goals and key investment areas, as well as a significant step in promoting sustainable development. The aim is to fundamentally address issues such as resource depletion, ecological damage, and environmental pollution, achieving optimal resource allocation, efficient utilization, and a virtuous cycle. This book is based on promoting the development of circular economy theory and conducts distinctive theoretical research from a macro societal level. The content not only involves the rational planning, scientific management, and optimal allocation of natural resources, production resources, and waste resources but also includes social resources, such as the coordination of socio-economic policies, cultural education, institutional mechanisms, and laws and regulations, as well as the clear and reasonable division of responsibilities by all levels of society.
This book, with a systematic perspective and integrating multiple disciplines, proposes and constructs a multi-level, systematic circular economy theory system centered on the circular economy development model, comprising circular society theory and circular economy planning theory. It innovatively proposes the "three-dimensional" view of the fundamental purpose of circular economy, which aims at achieving the optimal utilization of resources in terms of time, space, and quantity. It clearly discusses the idea of building an ecological industrial structure and functions in a hierarchical manner and systematically analyzes the institutional integration for building a circular society. Additionally, it elaborates on the theoretical and methodological systems of circular economy planning from four different levels—macro, sub-macro, meso, and micro—initially establishing an evaluation index system for circular economy at each level.
This book holds certain research and reference value for macro-level management decision-making departments in the fields of national economy, environment, resources, and planning, as well as for universities, colleges, and relevant research institutions.