Dear Colleagues,

The current climate crisis and the global economic and geopolitical context highlight the fragility of European economy from the perspective of the resilience of production systems. As commodity prices are soaring, the time has come to strengthen policies to support the circular economy and to reduce the over-reliance on imported raw materials. Over the past five years, consumption has grown at more than twice the rate of circularity, contributing to a problem that threatens to destabilize the economy with an inflationary spiral. Therefore, the circular economy paradigm can contribute to developing domestic markets for secondary raw materials with positive impacts on the trade balance and competitiveness since importing raw materials is increasingly expensive. However, circular economy should not be considered exclusively within economic and environmental policy dimensions. To be effective, it must represent a force that can extend the environmental policy paradigm by integrating industrial policy and strategy. Therefore, circular economy governance must be capable of triggering a strategic industrial policy vision to activate new production chains, avoid relocations, and promote reshoring strategic production.

Dr. Giacomo Di Foggia
Dr. Massimo Beccarello
Guest Editors

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• circular economy
• secondary raw materials
• reshoring, industrial policy
• environmental policy
• recycling
• economic resilience