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Environmental Management and the Circular Economy

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Previous chapters discuss the sustainability strategies of companies. However, the implementation of corporate sustainability also needs to be highlighted.

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    The second part of this chapter will explain how this kind of thinking has led to the Circular Economy and how this concept works out under different circumstances.

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    This subsection is based on Stahel (2019).

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Wolters, T. (2023). Environmental Management and the Circular Economy. In: Sustainable Value Creation. Sustainable Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35351-2_5

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