Summary: This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favorable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move […]
Summary: The study aims to find out how sustainable development, but especially the circular economy, is perceived by companies operating in the Seinäjoki region and what kind of obstacles and opportunities are seen in its implementation. The research material consists of thematic interviews with seven companies, three sustainability reports and three policy programmes, the latter […]
Summary: We studied a project that was working on urban circular economy to initiate sustainability change in a city. We present longitudinal participatory action research on the activities of a project management team in a city organization. We used practice-theory perspective in analyzing the praxes of the project team. The results of our study show […]
Summary: We describe the processes and verification testing of a medical device engineering team (the authors) performed during their first sustainability transition project on a commercialized, single use sensor product; no changes to the device were made. This sensor was composed of sensitive plastics, gels, metals, and electronic parts and was intended for direct skin […]