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Circular Economy: Enabling the Transition towards Sustainable Consumption and Production

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Valtteri Ranta & Ulla A. Saari

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  1. Faculty of Life Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Ulla Saari

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Ranta, V., Saari, U.A. (2019). Circular Economy: Enabling the Transition towards Sustainable Consumption and Production. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_3-1

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