Publications

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The transition toward the circular economy is presented as a lever enabling territories to move beyond linear development models and reduce their dependence on primary resources. At the territorial scale, this transition is accompanied by a paradigm shift in the status of waste, which is now considered a strategic resource. However, in a context marked […]

Waste recovery is an integrated part of municipal solid waste management systems but its strategic planning is still challenging. In particular, the service area size of facilities is a sensitive issue since its calculation depends on various factors related to treatment technologies (output products) and territorial features (sources waste production and location). This work presents […]

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Design for Sustainability Transitions is an emerging field within Design for Sustainability that aims to provide guidelines and strategies to generate systemic change in society, mostly at the socio-technical system level. Nevertheless, some limitations of current approaches have been pointed out by scholars, including their market-centred perspective and the vague definition of the sustainability visions […]

This article documents how and what type of promises are constructed through product qualification and labeling in contemporary markets. The introduction of a repairability index for electronic products in France requires producers to display an index on ‘how reparable’ new products are. Examining the genesis of this labeling device, through the analysis of original policy […]