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SUBMITTER: Kern F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493796 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kern Florian F Sharp Helen H Hachmann Samyra S
Environmental innovation and societal transitions 20200916
The recently developed Deep Transitions framework has so far been mainly used to explore the first deep transition towards industrial modernity. This paper looks at a potential second deep transition towards a circular economy, which is hoped to lead to a more sustainable global economic system. Our focus is on exploring the role of the EU in developing and diffusing this emerging set of rules. We draw on ideas from the international relations literature to explain why and how the EU adopted the ...[more]