Circular City Ports - Workbook
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02 Investigating city ports Seven key issues<br />
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7 Today our economy does not yet acknowledge<br />
the right costs and values in its daily operations<br />
and use of resources<br />
We can be confined by our known or existing way<br />
of doing business, not aware of other possible value<br />
frameworks. <strong>Circular</strong>ity is not only about processing<br />
waste. It is also about organising a new industrial<br />
system and its inherent division of labour. Through<br />
circularity, we have the opportunity to; recognise<br />
and valorise new and diverging value systems (social,<br />
ecological and economical). The city port is of<br />
strategic importance due to its close proximity to either<br />
the flows (mining the city) and knowledge networks<br />
(companies, educational institutes...). This<br />
new economy requires new kinds of roles and tasks.<br />
These new jobs can be both a driver, as a necessity<br />
towards more circularity. Business-models seek<br />
to recognise these other values and organise new<br />
ways of operating - wherein educational programs,<br />
new jobs and valorising flows are intertwined.<br />
How can we, through new business-models,<br />
explore and establish other value frameworks,<br />
wherein there’s a more balanced division of costs<br />
and benefits?<br />
How can we explore and establish other value<br />
frameworks, and what is the role of new jobs herein?<br />
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