Circular Economy from an SDG Perspective: A Multi-Stakeholder Process for Developing Policy Options
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
Recy & DepoTech 2020
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
The concept of Circular Economy (CE) is viewed to be a promising approach to help reduce global sustainability pressures. The United Nations (UN) ?2030 Agenda for Sustaina-ble Development?, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), explicitly includes CE targets within SDG 12 (?Responsible Consumption and Pro-duction?).
In this regard, we conduct a longitudinal case study about a multi-stakeholder pro-cess for developing CE policies for the Austrian Federal Government from an SDG perspective (the UniNEtZ project). The UniNEtZ project is a unique policy devel-opment process in Austria which actually involves about 400 scientists from 16 universities and 3 research institutions over various disciplines. The aim is to pro-vide the Austrian government by 2021 with a catalogue of integrable and con-sistent policy actions (?Option report?) to reach the 17 SDGs.
Our analysis draws on the theory of change (ToC) which refers to defining linear cause-and-effect chains from initiative implementation to societal impact. The qualitative data is obtained from various sources like literature reviews, semi-structured expert interviews, eth-nographic informal interviews with stakeholders, and participatory observation of industry and scientific events or stakeholder workshops. Data collection is done over 3 years, starting from January 2019 until the end of 2021.
The findings cover a) a process framework clarifying how different stakeholders from academia, industry, research funding agencies and government collaborate, b) how knowledge is created and transferred within this multi-stakeholder process, and c) what outputs, outcomes, and impacts can be realized at the national level in the context of developing CE policies using an SDG framework.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Englischer Vortragstitel:
Circular Economy from an SDG Perspective: A Multi-Stakeholder Process for Developing Policy Options
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