Socio-economic and material balance study of the Aquitaine region by the Institut de l’économie circulaire

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Socio-economic and material balance study of the Aquitaine region by the Institut de l’économie circulaire

The Institut de l’économie circulaire has just published the socio-economic and material balance study for the Aquitaine region. Through this study, it reaffirms its determination to be involved in scientific fields and produce policy indicators for local areas.

Material balances are generally used at country level. A guide by the French Ministry of Ecology has recently proposed a method for applying this observation method at regional level, based on the achievements of Sabine Barles at Université Paris I, the scientific referent in the field. Adrian Deboutière and Laurent Georgeault conducted the exercise for the four regions participating in the Programme National de Synergies Inter-entreprises (French national programme for inter-company synergies) and here propose a return to "metabolisms" to fuel thinking in these areas on the direction they want to take with regard to the circular economy.

The regions' commitment to the circular economy benefits from the support of a methodological guide produced by the Association des Régions de France (French regions association), and ADEME. For the Aquitaine region, their commitment to the Programme National de Synergies Inter-entreprises corresponds to what is called "metabolism initiatives"on a microscopic scale. This study proposes a compendium of a micro- and macroeconomic regional overview as part of industrial and territorial ecology programmes. 

Source:

Bilans matières de l'Aquitaine, la Bretagne, la Haute-Normandie et Rhône-Alpes (Material balance study for Aquitaine, Brittany, Haute-Normandie and Rhône-Alpes), 11/05/2016,http://www.institut-economie-circulaire.fr/Bilans-matieres-de-l-Aquitaine-la-Bretagne-la-Haute-Normandie-et-Rhone-Alpes_a1143.html

Article selected by CIRIDD in collaboration with the ARDI technology intelligence unit.

Deboutière A. & Georgeault L., Étude socio-économique et bilan matières de la région Aquitaine (Socio-economic and material balance study of the Aquitaine region), Institut de l'économie circulaire, March 2016. 

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