Rejeb Abderahman, Rejeb Karim, Appolloni Andrea, Treiblmaier Horst, Iranmanesh Mohammad
Department of Management and Law, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Columbia, 2, Rome, 00133 Italy.
Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Zarzouna, Bizerte 7021 Tunisia.
Circ Econ Sustain. 2023 Mar 27:1-31. doi: 10.1007/s43615-023-00265-2.
The onset of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a major crisis that has severely impacted numerous economic, environmental, and social aspects of human life. During the pandemic, the potential of the circular economy (CE) has gained increasing attention as a prospective remedy for numerous sustainability problems. This systematic literature review charts CE research in the COVID-19 era. To this end, 160 journal articles were selected from the Scopus database. The performance indicators of the literature were determined and described through a bibliometric analysis. Moreover, the conceptual structure of CE research was identified via a keyword co-occurrence network. Based on bibliographic coupling, the focus of CE research in the COVID-19 era revolves mainly around five thematic areas, including: (1) waste management; (2) digitalization and sustainable supply chain management; (3) the impact of COVID-19 on food systems; (4) sustainable development goals, smart cities, and bioeconomy; and (5) closed-loop supply chains. Overall, this review contributes to enriching the literature by determining the main thematic areas and future research directions that can help to advance the transition to the CE and reduce the impact of COVID-19 and similar disasters in the future.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行的爆发引发了一场重大危机，严重影响了人类生活的诸多经济、环境和社会层面。在大流行期间，循环经济（CE）的潜力作为应对众多可持续发展问题的一种前瞻性解决方案，受到了越来越多的关注。本系统文献综述梳理了COVID-19时代的循环经济研究。为此，从Scopus数据库中选取了160篇期刊文章。通过文献计量分析确定并描述了文献的绩效指标。此外，通过关键词共现网络确定了循环经济研究的概念结构。基于文献耦合，COVID-19时代循环经济研究的重点主要围绕五个主题领域，包括：（1）废物管理；（2）数字化与可持续供应链管理；（3）COVID-19对食品系统的影响；（4）可持续发展目标、智慧城市和生物经济；（5）闭环供应链。总体而言，本综述通过确定主要主题领域和未来研究方向，为丰富文献做出了贡献，这些主题领域和研究方向有助于推动向循环经济的转型，并减少未来COVID-19及类似灾难的影响。
