Circular Economy and Territorial Consequences: ESPON CIRCTER project final report

This report provides an overview of the main findings from the different research tasks in the CIRCTER project and delivers selected policy messages with European coverage. The report provides:
-a territorial definition of the circular economy;
-insights into the available statistics on material and waste patterns and flows and their interpretation, alongside new territorial evidence on both aspects;
-a sectoral characterisation of the circular economy at regional level (NUTS-2), including data on turnover and jobs;
-key findings from the CIRCTER case studies;
-a systemic interpretation of the circular economy that works as a knowledge-integration mechanism for the entire report;
-an analysis of the most relevant circular economy policies and strategies at various territorial levels;
-a subset of policy recommendations focusing in particular on territorial and cohesion policies, and;
suggestions for further research.