DocumentTitleDateWork packageAction NetworkDescription
D7.3
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Data Management PlanWP7UABThis Data Management Plan (DMP) defines the data management policies that are followed during the execution of JUST2CE project and provides an overview of all the datasets that are collected and generated.
D6.8
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International Training WorkshopsWP6ARC/MEDWAVESThis report outlines the structure and outcomes of the JUST2CE International Training Workshops, highlighting their role in mainstreaming Just Transition concepts within the science-policy interface. The report includes a detailed overview of the workshop approach, summaries of key activities and discussions, particularly from the recent workshop in Barcelona, and an evaluation of engagement indicators and feedback.
D5.3
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Scenario Analysis. Policy BriefsWP5UNIVLEEDS
D7.1
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Project Reference Manual & Quality PlanWP7UABThis Project Reference Manual & Quality Plan is intended to support partners in the effective and efficient administration, procedural and financial management of the project. It focuses on project implementation procedures, structures and coordination and sets out key responsibilities for EC engagement and interaction.
D5.2
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Scenario AnalysisWP5UNIVLEEDSThis study employs an empirically calibrated ecological two-area input-output stock-flow consistent model to analyse various circular economy (CE) policies and practices and their impacts on economic, social, and environmental variables.
D4.5
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A Decision Suport Tool for a Just Transition to a Circular Economy

Supply Chain Explorer Final Version
WP4USFDThis deliverable presents the ‘final’ version of the JUST2CE Decision Support Tool (DST), as the major output of Work Package (WP) 4. It follows Deliverable 4.2, which presented the beta version of the tool. SInce the publication of D4.2 in November 2023, the tool has received two major updates. The first of these (February 2024) followed the testing phase of the tool, described in Deliverables 4.3 and 4.4, and implemented a number of performance and visual improvements to the tool, with a number of small updates following which optimised these aspects. A second major update was pushed in June 2024 which incorporated a feature to explore supply chain ‘impacts’
D4.4
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A Decision Suport Tool for a Just Transition to a Circular EconomyWP4USFDThis deliverable presents the testing and dissemination activities of the JUST2CE Decision Support Tool (DST) which were first laid out in Deliverable 4.3. This report thus describes the activities that have been conducted from the launch of the beta version of the tool (D4.2) in November 2023, until the submission of this report at the end of June 2024, covering the bulk of the testing and dissemination phases.
D5.1
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Report: SFC Models for Macroeconomic assessment of the transition towards a CEWP5UNIVLEEDSThis is a report describing the SFC models developed in WP5
D3.4
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Policy Briefs on Responsible Circular EconomyWP3ARC/MedWavesPolicy Brief documents to inform policy makers about RRI in the context of Circular Economy
D3.3
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National participatory (co-creation) workshops reportWP3UABThis deliverable contains the reports of the 5 national reports conducted to promote RRI in JUST2CE
D1.5
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Global Atlas of CE practicesWP1SIRDC
D1.1
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Circular Economy for
Social Transformation:
Multiple Paths to
Achieve Circularity
WP1UNIPARTHThe e-book “Circular Economy for Social Transformation: multiple paths to achieve circularity” represents the third
outcome of WP1 (Beyond the current CE models and practice) of the JUST2CE project
D6.5
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Exploitation StrategyWP6ARC/MedWaves
D6.4
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Open science and Open Access guidelines for JUST2CEWP6ARC/MedWaves
D6.3
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Communication and Dissemination PackageWP6ARC/MedWaves
D6.1
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Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation StrategyWP6ARC/MedWaves
D4.2
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A Decision Support Tool for a Just Transition to a Circular EconomyWP4USFDThe purpose of this document is to describe the developed JUST2CE Decision Support Tool (DST), as one of the results of Work Package (WP) 4, strictly related to Task 4.4: implementation and deployment.
D4.3
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A Decision Support Tool For A Just Transition
To A Circular Economy: A Roadmap for Testing and
Adoption
WP4USFDThis deliverable follows the outline of the Decision Support Tool (DST) presented in Deliverable 4.1 in offering a
concrete roadmap for the testing and adoption of the tool.
D4.1
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Exploring a Just Transition to Circular EconomyWP4USFDIn this deliverable we present the background and specification of a Decision Support Tool (DST) which is intended to enable users to explore a range of phenomena related to the just transition to a Circular Economy
D2.3
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Cross Comparison ReportWP2UABThe research question addressed by this report is thus: what are the enablers and barriers to a just and sustainable circularity transition in diverse industries, settings, and socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts?
D2.2
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10 Case Study ReportsWP2UABThis deliverable investigates what technical, geopolitical and social factors can enable users to explore a range of phenomena related to the just transition to a Circular Economy
D1.2
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Framing Circular Economy in the context of Global Environmental Justice WP1CESThis report explores the relationship between Circular Economy (CE) and Environmental Justice (EJ), highlighting their intersection on conceptual and empirical levels.
D1.3
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Gender Justice and Circular Economy WP1UABThis report defines a a gender-just Circular Economy.
D1.4
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The report ‘Labour in the Transition to the CE01/08/2022WP1CESA critical literature review on just transition and circular economy. The aim of this report is to explore the place of labour and workers in the academic and grey literature on the circular economy.
D3.2
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A framework to
assess the transition
towards a Circular
Economy at a Macro-Level
07/02/2023This deliverable reports the findings of Task 3.2: Development of a conceptual RRI framework for Circular
Economy (CE). The aim of the task is to develop a framework for designing CE practices that include the
principles of RRI. It presents an array of techniques and methods to integrate the RRI keys and the AIRR
dimensions into the design of CE initiatives
D3.1
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Training material and reports of the workshops28/02/2022WP3SEERCThis deliverable includes the RRI training material and the reports of the activities conducted in task 3.1. Task 3.1 is committed to embed RRI principles into all aspects of the project.
D7.2
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Data Management Plan 1st version24/02/2022WP7UABThis Data Management Plan (DMP) defines the data management policies that are followed during the execution of JUST2CE project and provides an overview of all the datasets that are collected and generated.
D2.1
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Multidimensional Framework for the Case Studies30/11/2021WP2UABCircular Economy (CE), a pillar of the European Green Deal, is an increasingly recognized approach that has much to contribute towards addressing challenges of the Anthropocene.
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Policy Brief
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Enhancing Africa's Participation in European Union Research Projects: A Case study of Just Transition to Circular Economy ProjectJune 2024This policy brief, using the case study of the Just Transition to Circular Economy (JUST2CE) project, identifies three key barriers hindering equitable Africa-EU scientific cooperation.
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Toward a just circular economy: conceptualizing environmental labor and gender justice in circularity studiesMarch 2024This article highlights three constituent elements of the linear economy that remain unaddressed in CE frameworks: environmental, labor, and gender inequalities. Building upon scholarship from environmental justice, environmental labor studies, and feminist ecological economics, we elaborate a conceptual framework to interrogate the existing literature.
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The new spirit of technoscience: recalibrating
symmetrical STS critique
Dec 2023This article situates Responsible Innovation (RI) as part of a larger
shift in science and technology governance demanding a ‘social
fix’ for innovation, which we argue amounts to a new spirit of
technoscience
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From creative destruction to convivial innovation - A post-growth perspectiveJuly 2023In this paper, the reasearcher argue that the notion of Creative Destruction underpinning classical innovation management theory as well as having crystallised into technological determinism and productivism has come to a dead-end.
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Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart City Development in Mexico City: An institutional logics approachApril 2022This paper explores smart city development, with a focus on the modalities of citizen participation, using an institutional logics approach. Using Mexico City as an example.
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Easier said than done? Involving citizens in the smart cityApril 2022This paper seeks to move this aspect of the smart city debate forward. Using Mexico City as an exemple.
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A framework to allocate responsibilities of the global environmental concerns: A case study in Spain involving regions, municipalities, productive sectors, industrial parks, and companiesFebruary 2022This paper presents the responsible operating space (ROS) framework, a framework that includes both the common governance of the global environmental concerns and the comprehensive management of environmental sustainability
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Sustainability marketing beyond sustainable development: towards a degrowth agendaJune 2021This paper argues that sustainable development notions have run their course within sustainability marketing debates and proposes degrowth as an alternative framework to steer disciplinary debates in new directions.
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Socio-technical imaginaries of a circular economy in governmental discourse and among science, technology, and innovation actors: A Norwegian case studyOctober 2022This research adopts the prism of socio-technical imaginaries to understand specific visions of circularity in science and innovation, exploring how competing imaginaries mobilize specific actors, institutions, and visions of a greener future
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Who will benefit from the transition to the Circular Economy?December 2021This SPECIAL ISSUE aims to improve our understanding on the implementation of the circular economy, beyond recycling and technological research
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Circular bioeconomy potential and challenges within an African context: From theory to practiceSeptember 2022In the present study, a preliminary assessment of waste management practices in a tourist hotel in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is explored
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Implementing circular economy in a regional context: A systematic literature review and a research agendaSeptember 2022The main purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the regional adoption of CE
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Perception and awareness of circular economy options within sectors related to agriculture in ArgentinaNovember 2022The objective of this paper is to identify the present level of awareness, the current situation and the expectations regarding the transition towards a circular economy approach within Argentina's agricultural sectors based on an opinion and perception survey
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Towards sustainable aquaculture systems: Biological and environmental impact of replacing fishmeal with Arthrospira platensis (Nordstedt) (spirulina)November 2022
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Environmental impact of second-generation biofuels production from agricultural residues in Cameroon: A life-cycle assessment studyDecember 2022This work focuses on assessing the environmental impact of the production of second-generation liquid and gaseous biofuels by means of the life cycle assessment method, in order to contribute to sustainable development with emphasis on environmentally concerned decision-making and appropriate choice of technologies.
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System dynamic analysis of urban household food-energy-water nexus in Melbourne (Australia)December 2022This study establishes a household food-energy-water nexus model, taking Melbourne as a case.
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Plastic Waste Management in Morocco: A Sociological Reflection about the Informal Sector in the Circular EconomyNovember 2023USCThis article explores the link between plastic waste management in Morocco (Casablanca and Rabat) and the varied working conditions of formal and informal sector workers in the context of transitioning to a Circular Economy
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Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economyOctober 2023This article questions the efficacy of indicators for a just Circular Economy (CE), we suggest refining methods, adopting new strategies, and reconceiving indicators as politicized artifacts to shape alternative narratives.
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Industrial Policy in an era of Global Structural Change: inplications for South Africa
August 2023How the transition to a Circular Economy can assist in a Just Transition.
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Environmental and Social Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management in Italy According to EU DirectivesJune 2023This study aims at evaluating the environmental and social impacts of the WEEE management system in Italy, with a special focus on collection and recycling in Campania Region (the third more populated Italian Region, Southern Italy)
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Empowering the transition towards a circular economy through empirically-driven research: Past, present, and futureApril 2023In this paper, we discuss the importance of empirically-driven research in the area of sustainable production and distribution systems in order to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy in contemporary societies.
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Dimensions of repair work19/02/2023The study aims to develop analytical distinctions among various types of repair work, taking into consideration gendered, racial, and spatial divisions of labor, as well as distinct forms of ecological consciousness and agency.
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Environmental assessment of multiple “cleaner electricity mix” scenarios within just energy and circular economy transitions, in Italy and Europe15/02/2023This study assesses the environmental impacts of the Italian and EU electricity mixes under different governmental and research scenarios and perspectives, by means of the Life Cycle Assessment approach (Midpoint and Endpoint LCA).
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Understanding the EU's circular economy policies through futures of circularity20/01/2023This paper examines the underlying circular futures within the EC's CE policies by analyzing their content from 2011 to 2022
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Evaluating Environmental and Energy Performance Indicators of Food Systems, within Circular Economy and “Farm to Fork” Frameworks01/01/2023This study proposes a framework of environmental and energy performance indicators.
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Briefing del Taller de co-creació "Cap a una transició justa a l'Economia Circular"Briefing del Taller de co-creació "Cap a una transició justa a l'Economia Circular"
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Agenda del Taller de co-creació "Cap a una transició justa a l'Economia Circular"Agenda del Taller de co-creació "Cap a una transició justa a l'Economia Circular"
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A framework for a responsible circular economyA framework for a responsible circular economy
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Perspectives on Socially and Environmentally Just Circular Cities: The Case of Naples (Italy)29/11/2022This study starts by evaluating the evolution and current state of the concept of circular city. The latter can be included within a wider window of urban brandings which share in common the visions and applications in cities of more sustainable patterns
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits of Expanding Urban Green Areas: A Joint Application of i-Tree and LCA Approaches22/11/2022
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Multi-criteria methods for the optimal localization of urban green areas10/11/2022This study compares evaluation methods to guide decision-making for urban green strategies
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Exploring the transition towards circular supply chains through the arcs of integrationAugust 2022The objective of this paper is to critically examine the supply chain integration concept and assess its suitability for the analysis of circular supply chains
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What theories of value (could) underpin our circular futures?May 2022This paper evaluates different configurations of the circular economy and highlights the importance of recognizing and incorporating value theory in research
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Circular Economy indicators for supply chains: A systematic literature review01/02/2022Recently, the Circular Economy paradigm has emerged as an alternative to linear and unsustainable production and consumption systems.
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Potential Energy Savings from Circular Economy Scenarios Based on Construction and Agri-Food Waste in Italy19/12/2021This study
investigates the energy savings from recycling Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) in Naples.
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Closed-loop supply chain design for the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic literature review of methods, applications and current gaps10/11/2021Over the last decade, significant attention has been devoted to Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC) design problems. As such, this review aims at assessing whether the current modelling approaches for CLSC problems can support the transition towards a Circular Economy at a supply chain level.
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Integration of the circular economy paradigm under the just and safe operating space narrative: Twelve operational principles based on circularity, sustainability and resilience01/11/2021The goal of this research is to theoretically integrate the CE paradigm within the environmental sustainability framework.
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Politicising Circular Economy: what can we learn from Responsible Innovation?24/01/2021The ‘Circular Economy’ has become a new buzzword in debates about sustainability. Circularity, however, is usually presented in terms of scientific and technological challenges that often neglect the socio-political aspects related to the transition towards more sustainable futures, such as participation, co-creation and social justice.