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Natacha Klein; Tomás B. Ramos; Pauline Deutz. Correction to: Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices. Circular Economy and Sustainability 2021, 1 -3.
AMA StyleNatacha Klein, Tomás B. Ramos, Pauline Deutz. Correction to: Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 2021; ():1-3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNatacha Klein; Tomás B. Ramos; Pauline Deutz. 2021. "Correction to: Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices." Circular Economy and Sustainability , no. : 1-3.
Circular economy (CE) is a concept that is gaining attention as an approach to help accelerate the transition towards sustainability. Research has focused on the adoption of CE practices in the business sector while the adoption within public sector organisations has been relatively overlooked. Examining CE adoption in the public sector through the perceptive of employees is crucial because of their expertise in the organisation where they work. The main aim of this study is to identify what public employees perceive as suitable CE practices for their organisations and their critical role in implementation. As the adoption of CE practices is influenced by social and material configurations, this research has taken a case study approach, focused on the Portuguese Central Public Administration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with public employees working on CE and sustainability issues, and a complementary analysis was undertaken of governmental reports and legislative documents. The results show that public employees view the existence and potential of CE practices mainly in the area of public procurement but also in resource efficiency and optimisation, dematerialisation and in practices related to the R-hierarchy including reduce and reuse. Both technical-oriented practices aimed to achieve traditional resource efficiency, and human-centred practices targeted at reducing consumption and sharing resources have been identified. This research provides insights into how a specific group of stakeholders envisions CE activities for their sector. Identification of practices for central public sector has the potential to assist decision-makers in the process of defining priorities for CE planning, implementation and monitoring. This study focusing on CE practices in central public sector organisations contributes to the calls for an inclusion of human/socially-based practices centred around consumption reduction, sharing and dematerialisation activities to enhance the transformative and innovative potential of CE.
Natacha Klein; Tomás B. Ramos; Pauline Deutz. Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices. Circular Economy and Sustainability 2021, 1 -23.
AMA StyleNatacha Klein, Tomás B. Ramos, Pauline Deutz. Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 2021; ():1-23.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNatacha Klein; Tomás B. Ramos; Pauline Deutz. 2021. "Advancing the Circular Economy in Public Sector Organisations: Employees’ Perspectives on Practices." Circular Economy and Sustainability , no. : 1-23.
The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.
Natacha Klein; Tomás Ramos; Pauline Deutz. Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4181 .
AMA StyleNatacha Klein, Tomás Ramos, Pauline Deutz. Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4181.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNatacha Klein; Tomás Ramos; Pauline Deutz. 2020. "Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review." Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4181.
Sirkku Juhola; Natacha Klein; Janina Käyhkö; Tina-Simone Schmid Neset. Climate change transformations in Nordic agriculture? Journal of Rural Studies 2017, 51, 28 -36.
AMA StyleSirkku Juhola, Natacha Klein, Janina Käyhkö, Tina-Simone Schmid Neset. Climate change transformations in Nordic agriculture? Journal of Rural Studies. 2017; 51 ():28-36.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSirkku Juhola; Natacha Klein; Janina Käyhkö; Tina-Simone Schmid Neset. 2017. "Climate change transformations in Nordic agriculture?" Journal of Rural Studies 51, no. : 28-36.