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The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?

Journal of Cleaner Production · 2016 · Vol. 143 · pp. 757–768

Martin Geissdoerfer✉(University of Cambridge)Paulo Savaget(University of Cambridge)Nancy Bocken(Delft University of Technology)Erik Jan Hultink(Delft University of Technology)

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management Environmental Sustainability in Business Sustainable Industrial EcologyCLARITYCircular economySustainabilityManagement scienceConceptual frameworkField (mathematics)EpistemologyKnowledge managementSociologyComputer science

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