eprintid: 10192895
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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
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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).   
 
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