Network Governance and Circular Economy. Findings and Discussions Rozita Singh Erasmus University Rotterdam UN MGCY

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1 Network Governance and Circular Economy Findings and Discussions Rozita Singh Erasmus University Rotterdam UN MGCY

2 Main Research Question How does network governance influence the transition to circular neighbourhoods in Netherlands EVA Lanxmeer neighbourhood in Culemborg and GWL Terrain neighbourhood in Amsterdam Underlying questions What type of network operates What role each stakeholder plays What is the relation between them What kind of partnerships are being built How effective are these networks Network governance measured in terms of: Actors and resources, Communication, cooperation and partnerships, trust Transition to circular economy being measured through the ReSOLVE framework of EMF

3 ReSOLVE Framework Shift to renewable energy and materials Share assets Prolong life Recycle Dematerialise Replace old with advanced EMF, Delivering the Circular Economy: A Toolkit for Policymakers) Cited in: (Prendeville, Cherim, et al., 2017)

4 Key Research Findings

5 Why Network Governance Multi-actor setting at different levels from the private sector, to individuals and public. Interactions occur in the realm of a network. It is important to understand the dynamics in this network. Network governance analytical approaches allow the study of these dynamics in order to draw inferences for potential policy actions and incentives required for steering in the direction of achieving circular economy.

6 Analysis Cluster of stakeholder groups

Infrastructure provision in partnership with private sector developers Role of citizens or residents

7 Power to legislate Infrastructure service provision Land and Finance Actors System thinkers- Academic, entrepreneurs: They trigger change, introduce concept, bring the knowledge Municipality- Owners of land; Infrastructure provision in partnership with private sector developers Role of citizens or residents acceptance of change; imbibing the change; shifting lifestyle habits Interdependence or combination of these resources as power.

8 Both experts and residents mentioned on the need for labelling CE with care so as to simplify and make it for higher uptake and understanding Strong communication channels between residents, municipalities, private sector help in building stronger partnerships

9 Stronger coalitions required between developers and municipality and also within the municipality. Huge potential for circularity in the buildings sector Example of energy cooperation alliances Role of entrepreneurs and academic institutes was also highlighted Partnerships developed by Harlemmemeer municipality; Circular valley; Metabolic s Buiksloterham; Green deals; Cirkelstad

costs Lock in periods old legislations Borders between various actors Funding for

10 Positive and innovative labelling Consumer awareness An ambitious government Cooperation between different actors Policy push Market as accelerator Market does not reflect true costs Lock in periods old legislations Borders between various actors Funding for experimentation and innovation Behavioral change The tax burden needs to move away from labour on to resources

11 Envisioning a circular economy based industry

12 Opportunities By 2020, an estimated 6.5 billion people and 18 billion objects will be connected to mobile networks Economic benefit of digitization and real-world networking in the fields of energy, healthcare, transport, education is at a level of 56 billion euros a year Reduce each nation s greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 70% and grow its workforce by about 4% Quality of life, social benefits and livelihoods?

13 Circular economy product and business model strategy framework Circular strategies Product Design Business model Slowing Designing long-life products Access and performance model Designing for product life extension Extending product value Classic long life Encourage sufficiency Closing Design for a technological Extending resource value cycle Design for a biological cycle Industrial symbiosis Design for disassembly and reassembly Adapted from: Nancy M. P. Bocken, Ingrid de Pauw, Conny Bakker & Bram van der Grinten (2016) Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy, Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 33:5, ,

14 Network governance principles in context to manufacturing sector and IoT Understanding key actors and mapping their resources Cooperation between individual companies, business partners, suppliers and even customers Communication/ Network management: Architecture framework that to create a single, shared strategy Trust in networks: Agreement of all the participants on the basic structural principles, transparency and standardization

15 Reimagining manufacturing Remanufacturing: manufacturers exploiting the residual value of products to deliver an affordable as new product Design stage selection: Accurate material selection during design to generate an additional benefit during or at end of life Emergence of Rent, lease and share business models (freeing users from ownership, allowing manufacturers to invest in durability) Shift to performance economy focusing on solutions instead of products (Michelin s by the mile tyre use to operators of vehicle fleets)

16 Innovations Incentivising plastic waste collection for upcycling

17 Innovations Reimagining ownership

18 Way forward

19 Reimagining measurement of economy Societal wealth and well-being should be measured in stock instead of flow, in capital instead of sales. Growth then corresponds to a rise in the quality and quantity of all stocks natural, cultural, human and manufactured Walter R. Stahel in the special issue on CE in Nature

20 Thank you! Lets talk:

European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference Brussels, February 2018 Civil Society Perspectives

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