scholarly journals Circular Economy for Food Policy: The Case of the RePoPP Project in The City of Turin (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6078
Author(s):  
Franco Fassio ◽  
Bianca Minotti
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
New Business ◽  
Food Policies ◽  
New Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Circular economy for food (CE) and food policies (FP) are two emerging but already prominent research areas, particularly when talking about the cities of the future. This paper analyzes the dynamics between these two fields of research, starting from review articles and the analysis of a case study, underlying the fundaments that FP and CE share. In particular, this paper focuses on using circular economy (CE) indicators and strategies to shape urban food policies (FP) to create a new business and political model towards sustainability. It introduces four converging perspectives, emerging from the literature, and analyzes how they have been integrated in the case study RePoPP (Re-design Project of Organic waste in Porta Palazzo market), a circular project born from the FP of the City of Turin (Italy). RePoPP is indeed a multi-actor project of urban circular food policies against food waste, which demonstrates how a circular approach can be the turning point in the creation of new food policies. This article wants to define for the first time a new research framework called “circular economy for food policy”, along with its characteristics: the application of a systemic approach and CE to problems and solutions, the need for a transdisciplinary and integrated project design for the 9R (responsibility, react, reduce, reuse, re-design, repair, recover, recycle, and rot), the use of food as a pivot of cross-sectoral change, and a new form of collaborative and integrated governance.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY DRIVEN INNOVATIONS WITHIN BUSINESS MODELS OF RURAL SMEs

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Uvarova ◽  
Dzintra Atstaja ◽  
Alise Vitola
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
New Business ◽  
Limited Scale ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

The competitiveness of rural SMEs is low due to economic inefficiency and the lack of innovations. The main challenges faced by rural SMEs are the limited scale, the distance form larger sales markets, R&D and business support institutions, and the lack of innovative spirit. The circular and bio-economies are shaping the rural SMEs towards the environmentally friendly and eco-efficient production, the minimization of the generation of waste and less use of natural resources. This potential of the adoption of new business models within rural SMEs is not fully observed.The aim of this research is to analyse the opportunities of rural SMEs in introducing the innovative business models driven by the circular economy. This research explores the innovative business models of rural SMEs that transform the environmental challenges in business opportunities and keep a balance with the growing consumption needs. The results of the research are of both theoretical and practical value, providing recommendations for facilitation of innovative business models within rural SMEs. The research methods: desk research, statistical analysis, a grounded theory approach, case study, primary data gathering through seven focus groups with more than 200 stakeholders from six European countries.  

scholarly journals GLASSHOUSE LOCATING BASED ON SWARA-COPRAS APPROACH

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramtin HAGHNAZAR KOUCHAKSARAEI ◽  
Sarfaraz HASHEMKHANI ZOLFANI ◽  
Mahmood GOLABCHI
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Hybrid Framework ◽  
First Time ◽  
Suitable Location

Glasshouse is a kind of greenhouse that is larger than prevalent greenhouses. Glasshouses may have wide various applications and totally, is more applicable than greenhouse. One important point about glasshouse that should be considered is selecting a good location. Besides, finding a suitable location for this purpose is so hard because establishing a glasshouse needs a large area. Financial justification which is a major issue in glasshouse Investments highlights the importance of its locating. This research is based on strategic property management perspectives and its results can be used to properly locate an economically justifiable glasshouse in both governmental and private levels. There are some other important criteria affects on this issue. This research aimed at presenting new hybrid framework for glasshouse locating based on two MCDM methods. SWARA and COPRAS are applied in this research for glasshouse locating. This methodology for the first time is applied in a research. SWARA is applied for evaluating criteria and COPRAS is applied for evaluating alternatives. For illustrating the research methodology, a case study in Tehran, Iran is presented in the research. This research can be useful as a framework for this aim and also has the advantage to apply in other research areas.

Stable Isotope Dietary Analysis on Human Remains: A case Study at Khirbet Aqabet Al Qadi Burial Chamber, Nablus, Palestine

Radiocarbon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1107-1120
Author(s):  
Loay Abu Alsaud ◽  
Awni Shawamra ◽  
Amer Qobbaj ◽  
Jehad Yasin ◽  
Mohammad Al-Khateeb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
City Center ◽  
Dietary Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn 2016, a burial chamber hewn into limestone was discovered at Khirbet Aqabet Al Qadi on the northwestern slope of Mount Ebal, 2km north of the city center of Nablus. The floor of the chamber is 3.15 × 2.9 m and the height averages 1.8 m. A movable closure at the entrance consists of a limestone slab. The burial chamber houses four sarcophagi. The aim of this case study is to give information not only on the burial chamber but also, for the first time in the region, on human remains. Stable isotope analysis of a human bone sample enabled us to obtain dietary information on one individual. Due to low collagen content, the sample did not allow precise dating but it can be placed between 50 BC and 50 AD. Systematic illegal excavation and looting at funerary sites in the Nablus area has caused material for potential information to be missing at the site. Nonetheless, the dietary information obtained supports other material finds indicating Mediterranean agricultural use of the land. Our evidence demonstrates that the site dates to between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

scholarly journals Circular Economy Model: Insights from a Case Study in South Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Palmieri ◽  
Alessandro Suardi ◽  
Vincenzo Alfano ◽  
Luigi Pari
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
South Italy ◽  
New Business

This study aims to analyze the economic and environmental sustainability of a case study of an energy power plant that produces electricity from pruning residues of olive groves from nine municipalities in southern Italy. To assess the economic sustainability of the agro-energetic chain, the profitability and efficiency ratios are calculated. Moreover, the GHG emissions of the agro-energetic pruning supply chain due to both the pruning collection at the field level, and their combustion for energy production at the power plant, are calculated. To put together the environmental and economic evaluations, the ecoefficiency ratio was calculated to measure the value added per 1Mg of GHG emitted into the atmosphere. The findings show the whole agro-energetic chain, namely the power plant and the collection company have both a good return on owner’s equity (ROE) ratio (15.89% and 31.48%, respectively) and ROI ratio (4.34% and 6.14% respectively). Moreover, the power plant’s ecoefficiency ratio (2.64€ per 1Mg of GHG) is slightly lower than harvest firm one (2.91€ per 1Mg of GHG). The findings could be useful to develop new business models based on the circular economy concept. In fact, the business model proposed could push entrepreneurs towards new income opportunities, at the same time, helping local farms and reducing the environmental impacts.

scholarly journals Infrastructuring the Circular Economy

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Nogueira ◽  
Weslynne Ashton ◽  
Carlos Teixeira ◽  
Elizabeth Lyon ◽  
Jonathan Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
System Level ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City

The circular economy (CE), and its focus on the cycling and regeneration of resources, necessitates both a reconfiguration of existing infrastructures and the creation of new infrastructures to facilitate these flows. In urban settings, CE is being realized at multiple levels, from within individual organizations to across peri-urban landscapes. While most attention in CE research and practice focuses on organizations, the scale and impact of many such efforts are limited because they fail to account for the diversity of resources, needs, and power structures across cities, consequently missing opportunities for adopting a more effective and inclusive CE. Reconfiguring hard infrastructures is necessary for material resource cycling, but intervening in soft infrastructures is also needed to enable more inclusive decision-making processes to activate these flows. Utilizing participatory action research methods at the intersection of industrial ecology and design, we developed a new framework and a model for considering and allocating the variety of resources that organizations utilize when creating value for themselves, society, and the planet. We use design prototyping methods to synthesize distributed knowledge and co-create hard and soft infrastructures in a multi-level case study focused on urban food producers and farmers markets from the City of Chicago. We discuss generalized lessons for “infrastructuring” the circular economy to bridge niche-level successes with larger system-level changes in cities.

Who is the girl in Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin? a case study of Mimi’s deleted scene and its dramatic meaning

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 241-274
Author(s):  
Judit Frigyesi
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

The story of Bartók’s pantomime is usually understood as the clash between the cold-blooded brutality of the city — represented by the tramps — and the force of primeval passion — represented by the mandarin. Within these opposing forces stands the girl — whose character, however, is not obvious. In the first complete manuscript version (piano four-hand), immediately before the ending of the piece, there existed a scene depicting a confrontation between the girl and the tramps. This scene, whose main actor is the girl, is crucial for the drama and reveals Bartók’s view with regard to the girl’s character. Yet when Bartók began orchestrating the work in 1924, he deleted this scene. The present article provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis as well as dramatic interpretation of this scene. Considering also the original text by Menyhért (Melchior) Lengyel (which contains this scene) and the totality of the final version of Bartók’s pantomime, the article proposes a characterization for the girl and offers a hypothesis for the reason for the omission of this scene from the final version.

scholarly journals An Improved Accessibility-Based Model to Evaluate Educational Equity: A Case Study in the City of Wuhan

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Yiheng Wang ◽  
Yaolin Liu ◽  
Lijun Xing ◽  
Ziyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Educational Equity ◽  
Spatial Accessibility ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City ◽  
Multi Mode

Limited studies focus on educational equity from the spatial accessibility perspective. This study combines survey data and big data and proposes a multi-mode Huff two-step floating catchment area (MMH2SFCA) method to calculate accessibility while considering multiple travel modes and school attractiveness. This method can also calculate education quality by extending the accessibility in each community. Results show that our proposed method can reliably identify the accessibility differences of schools across communities. The case study indicates an inequitable distribution of educational accessibility and quality. The communities with high accessibility are concentrated in the urban center and exurban zones surrounding schools, whereas high-quality areas are mainly concentrated in the urban center. Correlation analysis suggests that the educational quality of communities with high accessibility is not always high. The findings of this study can provide improvement for accessibility measurements and help explore a new research perspective for educational equity research.

scholarly journals Identifying opportunities to strengthen school food environments in the Pacific: a case study in Samoa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Reeve ◽  
Anne-Marie Thow ◽  
Colin Bell ◽  
Christina Soti-Ulberg ◽  
Gary Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Policy Science ◽  
School Nutrition ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Food ◽  
Food Policies ◽  
School Food Policy

Abstract Background: Despite global recommendations to prioritise policies that create healthy environments within education institutions, the implementation of effective healthy school food policies has proved challenging for many countries. This study examined the experience of Samoa in introducing a stronger policy to improve the healthiness of school food environments. Our aim was to identify opportunities to strengthen healthy school food policy implementation in Samoa and other comparable contexts. Methods: We used a qualitative case study approach, underpinned by policy science theory. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 30 informants, coupled with analysis of relevant documents, to generate a detailed understanding of the relevant policy implementation processes in Samoa, and the perspectives and capacities of key implementation actors. Data collection and analysis were guided by the Health Policy Analysis Triangle supplemented by other policy theories relevant to policy process. Results: Samoa’s school food policy operationalizes international ‘best practice’ recommendations. We found health policymakers and leaders in Samoa to be strongly committed to improving school food environments. Despite this, there continued to be challenges in ensuring compliance with the school nutrition standards. Key issues that negatively impacted on the policy’s effectiveness were the lack of priority given to school food by stakeholders outside of health, the high prevalence of unhealthy food in the areas immediately surrounding schools, and the high degree of agency exercised by actors in and around the school. We noted several opportunities for policies to be effectively implemented and sustained. Respondents identified community level leaders as potentially pivotal stakeholders, particularly in a context where school governance draws heavily on community representation.Conclusions: Despite previous commitment to the issue, political and community leaders need to be re-engaged to identify the institutional and operational changes required to improve the implementation of healthy school food policies. Strong incentives for compliance and effective enforcement mechanisms are likely to be crucial to success.

scholarly journals The importance of local events in enriching the cultural and tourism offer

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Bojana Spasojevic ◽  
Dejan Beric ◽  
Ana Jovicic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Regional Character ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Presentation

In the municipality of Ruma twenty five events take place per year. Most of these events have local or regional character. The event "Christmas Street" is the youngest event which is being organized in Ruma, the first time was held in late 2011. The subject of this paper is to study this event that complements the existing tourism offer of Ruma as potential tourist destination of Vojvodina. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of this event in the cultural enrichment of Ruma and its surroundings as well as the development of event tourism and positive presentation of the Municipality of Ruma. The significance of local events for enrichment of cultural-tourism offer will be presented as Case study of ?Christmas street? in the city of Ruma.

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