eprintid: 10192895 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/28/95 datestamp: 2024-05-31 08:55:28 lastmod: 2024-05-31 08:55:28 status_changed: 2024-05-31 08:55:28 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Mahanty, Sampriti creators_name: Domenech, Teresa title: Working along the value chain for circular economy transitions in fashion textiles: A participatory framework ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F34 keywords: Circular economy, circular fashion, stakeholder engagement, participatory framework, social learning note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The textile industry's resource use, waste, and emissions have led to severe scrutiny, worsened by fast fashion's rise, making clothing disposable. The circular economy (CE) offers a solution to address these issues but achieving circular fashion requires systemic and comprehensive stakeholder engagement across the value chain. Current research often overlooks wider stakeholders beyond internal company members, neglecting calls to incorporate a systems perspective in CE transitions. Moreover, the potential of stakeholder engagement for social learning, where stakeholders mutually share and acquire knowledge, remains largely untapped. To this end, this paper provides a systematic methodology of stakeholder engagement based on an empirical setting of transition towards CE in fashion textiles in London. It entails identifying contexts, aligning stakeholders’ actions, negotiating interventions, and communicating insights effectively. Based on the learnings from an empirical stakeholder engagement process, findings suggest a lack of alignment in the understanding of the CE concept across actors, that is underpinned by a fragmented knowledge of the overall value chain, often leading to also fragmented siloed policy approaches. While this paper uses fashion textiles as an illustrative case study, the process-led framework is largely applicable across different areas of the CE transition. date: 2024-05-24 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142627 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2279234 doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142627 lyricists_name: Domenech Aparisi, Teresa lyricists_id: TDOME86 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: restricted publication: Journal of Cleaner Production article_number: 142627 issn: 0959-6526 citation: Mahanty, Sampriti; Domenech, Teresa; (2024) Working along the value chain for circular economy transitions in fashion textiles: A participatory framework. Journal of Cleaner Production , Article 142627. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142627 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142627>. (In press). document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192895/1/1-s2.0-S0959652624020754-main.pdf