Territorios circulares

Abstract

"2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Meadows report, which warned in 1972, about growth limits and the finite nature of natural resources for the development system. It would take until 1987 for the UN to publish the Brundtland Report, initially known as Our Common Future, and define the concept of sustainable development, highlighting the moral need to responsibly use resources for the planet’s conservation. Nevertheless, this concept, tired and distorted today, did not explicitly imply critically viewing the prevailing linear model based on extraction, production, consumption, and waste. In this sense, the concept of “circularity” builds upon that of sustainable development since it reorients the current production model towards the closure of its cycles, thus assimilating them to natural ecosystems. Circularity aims at building a virtuous circle that minimizes the resources used at their origin, as well as the output waste, through repair, reuse, or recycling."