Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences in 2025
2026-02-06
Circular Economy and Ecosystem Services: Advancing Sustainable Resource Management for the Future
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Daoling Zhang
Baise University, Baise 533000, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i2.12983Abstract
The concepts of the circular economy (CE) are actively popularized as ways of minimizing waste products and the need to rely on virgin resources. Nevertheless, their sustainability is doubtful at a general level where ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services (ES) are not given explicit attention. This review will combine both conceptual and empirical evidence of the connection between CE interventions and ES outcomes to enable more sustainable management of resources. We describe the effects of the CE strategies on the key environmental pressure pathways, altering ecosystem conditions, and impacting the delivery of regulating, provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services using a pressure condition-service framework. Analysis reveals that demand-side reduction and product life-extension strategies tend to offer more consistent ecosystem service co-benefits than recycling and recovery strategies because they do not involve production, and will cause less disturbance to the upstream environment. Contrastingly, recycling and recovery sustainability performance is highly dependent on the sources of energy, intensity of processing, and the safety of materials. Bio-based circularity has the potential to increase soil functionality and nutrient cycling, and mass application will result in trade-offs in terms of land competition and nutrient leakage. The sectoral analysis identifies the unique opportunities and threats in the agri-food systems, the built environment, plastics and textiles, electronics and critical minerals, and water and wastewater systems in terms of the burden displacement, local environmental pressures, and equity concerns. Harmonized reporting, coupled with supply-chain and spatial ecological assessment, threshold-conscious strategies that promote safe and regenerative circular systems should be put into the line of future research.
Keywords:
Circular Economy; Ecosystem Services; Natural Capital; Sustainable Resource Management; Regenerative SustainabilityReferences
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