Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy

@article{Morseletto2022EnvironmentalPF,
  title={Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy},
  author={Piero Morseletto},
  journal={Sustainability Science},
  year={2022},
  volume={17},
  pages={2165-2171},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:251725486}
}
A set of newly defined environmental principles can advance the sustainability performance of economic frameworks such as industrial ecology, cradle-to-cradle, and the circular economy. Currently, the environmental sustainability of these frameworks is mainly derived from the application of efficiency principles such as waste reduction, or closing and narrowing production, and consumption loops. However, these same principles can bring, in some cases, unintended outcomes that are detrimental to… 
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