| Title |
Circular Economy as an Answer to the Challenge of Improving the Quality of Life |
| ID_Doc |
1582 |
| Authors |
Szczygiel, E |
| Title |
Circular Economy as an Answer to the Challenge of Improving the Quality of Life |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.36689/uhk/hed/2020-01-087 |
| Abstract |
The paper is an attempt to presents the influence the idea of circular economy on improving the quality of life. In the article the author presents the quality of life concept (understands as the element of sustainable development), as well as living standard idea, and the key assumption of circular economy: i.a. the 'take-make-waste' approach, characteristic of the linear model of economy, as well as 'reduce, reuse, recycle and recover' which is used in circular economy. It seems that circular economy could have positive effect on increasing the quality of life, especially due to the fact that environment aspects have it. The main part of the article is the literature review in the field of quality of life and circular economy connection. As an attempt to demonstrate of dependence between analysed phenomenon, author uses the available data come from international databases (Human Development Index and Quality of Life index, as well as from Eurostat). The preliminary analysis of existing relation is based on linear regression model, which results state that there is a positive influence of circular economy on increasing quality of life. |
| Author Keywords |
circular economy; linear model of economy; quality of life; living standard; sustainable development; statistical analysis |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) |
| EID |
WOS:000568108700086 |
| WoS Category |
Economics |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics |
| PDF |
http://digilib.uhk.cz/bitstream/20.500.12603/288/1/Szczygiel%20%281%29%20%281%29.pdf
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