Africa Circular Economy Series – serie

The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.Features:Discusses exploration of a transitional path to the circular economy, explored from the point of view of waste and technology.Explains transformational change towards sustainable socio-ecological interactions.Reviews provision of pathways towards sustainability through scenario development.Provides assessment of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.Presents cross-sectoral and multicentric approaches towards circularity.This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in water and environmental engineering, circular economy, sustainability, and environmental studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license.

The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.Features:Discusses exploration of a transitional path to the circular economy, explored from the point of view of waste and technology.Explains transformational change towards sustainable socio-ecological interactions.Reviews provision of pathways towards sustainability through scenario development.Provides assessment of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.Presents cross-sectoral and multicentric approaches towards circularity.This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in water and environmental engineering, circular economy, sustainability, and environmental studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license.

The book seeks to cover the application of the principles of the circular economy within the context of the processing and waste management industry in sub-Saharan Africa. It includes topics related to the circular economy and the sustainable use of resources in the mining, process industry, and waste management sectors, and examines how some resources from these sectors, currently treated as “waste”, can be converted into secondary resources that can help drive economic development.Features:Describes fundamental environmental and process engineering principles to understand waste valorization technologies.Covers sustainable solid waste management and recovery of resources from solid waste from an African perspective.Provides guidelines for specific approaches to long-term sustainable waste management.Includes alternative waste treatment technologies in order of priority as per the waste hierarchy.Introduces pertinent industry-specific case studies, worked examples, and problems.This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental and chemical engineering and waste treatment.

This book presents a detailed analysis of the potential of the circular economy (CE) to revolutionize solid waste management (SWM) in developing economies. It bridges the gap between theory and practice by offering real‑world, actionable insights and examples to support the development of sustainable and resilient SWM systems. The book focuses on developing economies across several regions, including (but not limited to) Sub‑Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, and includes relevant case studies.Key features:Detailed coverage of the solid waste value chainStrong emphasis on practical circular economy practicesReview of measures for implementing practical strategiesFocus on perspectives from developing economiesUse of case studies to demonstrate circular economy practices in developing contextsThis book is intended for students, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders in the field of environmental engineering.