Industrial Transformation and Economic Development Implications of Circular Economy in Kitakyushu, Japan

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10.2991/iceep-17.2017.86How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Japan; Kitakyushu industrial zone; circular economy; eco-environmental policy

Abstract

American economist K-Paulding first put forward the concept of "Circular Economy" in 1960s. The Kitakyushu of Japan was once a heavy industrial zone with the most acute contradiction between development and environmental problems. Since the 1960s, Japanese government started to develop circular economy in Kitakyushu and achieved unprecedented success. Its experience of transforming the old industrial bases into modern ecological community provides a good sample to countries with old industrial bases all over the world.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jialin Guan
AU  - Xinmeng Lv
AU  - Shuai Song
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Industrial Transformation and Economic Development Implications of Circular Economy in Kitakyushu, Japan
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2017)
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