A Study On The Developmental Mechanism Of Regional Circular Economy

The produce of Circular Economy (abbr. CE) theory is due to the understood and auto criticism of the human beings to ecological crisis and resources scarcity appeared continually after the Industrial Revolution. The key token of its human response is the idiographic practice on the regional level. Since the concept of CE was introduced into China in 1990s, the outcomes of the research concerning its theory and practice has achieved to further. The policies and methods made by the government and enterprises respectively in China are both taken to accelerate the circular economic development, particularly on the regional level. However, because of the theoretical inadequacy, the circular economic development on regional level is facing series barriers, thus, the issue of establishing an applied scientific theory to guide the regional CE development is being of an important proposition.Based on the comprehensive ordering to CE theory and the critical inheritance to currently research outcomes, the oriented goal of this research, which takes the generalized material flow management as a basic methodology, from the viewpoint of mechanism study and whole process analysis as well, is trying to establish an academic framework linking to the regional circular economic development. The contents of this research are summarized as following:1) Characters and theoretic skeleton of circular economy.This thesis firstly analyzed the characters of CE and corrected its concepts partially, and excavated the logic relationship between western ideological system and CE theory, followed by the integrated skeleton to its ideological roots and developmental background. At last, we clarified the distinctive features of CE research and practice in China.2) Fundamental problems of regional circular economy.This thesis studied and emphasized the features of regional circular economy which are "regional, developmental, and systemic", and the characters of its framework structure are multiplicity and complex. Based on the research point initiated to the whole process analysis, this research identified and sorted the developmental procedures, and creatively categorized the components of regional CE developmental mechanism as: Driving, Panning, Operating, Feedback, Regulating & Redirection.3) Details research on the developmental mechanism.Driving Mechanism: Based on the methodology called generalized material flow management, this thesis established a conceptual model to identify and research the source of driving force and the interaction mechanism. At last, we explained and proved the micro driving mechanism through the cases study based on the questionnaire research and quantitatively analysis.Planning Mechanism: Based on the summing-up of research experiences and the academic logical inference, this research revealed the basic principles, compiling ideals, frame structure, and compiling process of master planning for CE development, which is trying to solve the problems of master planning' compiling. Finally, Hanzhong city is studied as a reference to explain the planning mechanism theory.Operating Mechanism: The operational carriers and its operational mechanism of the regional CE development were defined following by establishing the function equations which could be useful for understanding the machanism, and we also pointed that the operating goal is to achieve the synchronous decoupling. Based on the scenario analysis, the empirical study on the coupling relation among "energy consumption - economic development - environmental impacts" in Gansu is taken and the outcomes are revelatory.Feedback Mechanism: The role and significance of the feedback in regional circular economic development are analyzed, following by the conceptual designing to the feedback mechanism. This research firstly defined the government, enterprise, and the public as the feedback objectives respectively, proposed a conceptive information communication platform later, and finally pre-designed the information contents according to the ideas of meta-data and minimum static.Regulating and Redirection Mechanism: This research studied the mechanism, modality, and the components of the regulation and redirection control in regional CE development, followed by establishing a generalized applied verification model in order to perfect the development of regional CE development. Of course, this research also clarified the verify processes which categorized as scientific verification, social cost verification, and so on.In conclusion, this research found an academic framework concerning the regional circular economic development, and extended the concept of the material flow material management and its application domain as well, we also proposed innovative ideas on the regional CE theory such as "Vector Flow Management", "Transfers", "Permission Verification", etc. The outcomes of this research is initiated to provide an academic basis and guideline for the circular economic practice on regional level, and tried innovatively to combine the theory and practice in order to accelerate the regional circular economic development in China.