- Title
- What Does the Circular Household of the Future Look Like? An Expert-Based Exploration
- Creator
- Keesstra, Saskia; Metze, Tamara; Ofori, Linda; Buizer, Marleen; Visser, Saskia
- Relation
- Land Vol. 11, Issue 7, no. 1062
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11071062
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Circularity is a necessity for the future of our society but individual households often find it difficult to contribute to this transition. This paper presents possible future visions of circular (and climate-neutral) households, inside and outside the house, regarding their contributions to the circular society, and taking into account food, energy, waste, household devices, and recreation. We combined expert interviews and a literature review to (1) explore imaginable futures for circular households, and (2) make a qualitative evaluation of the inside- and outside-house influences of households on a climate-neutral and circular society. Interviewees were selected to represent different scientific backgrounds. The four household types were organized according to more local or global, and collective or individual, levels: (1) the Househood (centering around neighborhoods); (2) the HouseNet (connecting households); (3) the Sharing Household (sharing goods between households); and (4) the Designing Household (input from circular-by-design products). The analysis shows that households can become more circular by connecting developments in social, ecological, and technological systems, such as those in price dynamics, policies, or land-use design. However, barriers and limitations need attention, including: (1) public awareness and willingness to change; (2) economic models; (3) waste; and (4) social justice.
- Subject
- circular bio-economy; future vision; circular agriculture; renewable energy; commodity sharing; recycling; SDG 7; SDG 10; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1487616
- Identifier
- uon:52197
- Identifier
- ISSN:2073-445X
- Rights
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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