Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta

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