Material Matters

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Developing Business for a Circular Economy

By Thomas Rau and Sabine Oberhuber

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Material Matters challenges the traditional linear economy of extraction and disposal, presenting a visionary model centred on circularity. It advocates for leveraging renewable energy, data, and intelligence to transform products and buildings into resource banks. By implementing material passports and shifting the focus from ownership to performance, businesses assume the role of custodians rather than mere consumers of materials. Case studies, including Philips' transition to selling light rather than lamps, illustrate practical steps towards sustainable change.
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This book is ideal for professionals and students in sustainability, business innovation, and environmental policy, as well as consumers interested in understanding and supporting circular economy concepts.

Our planet is a closed system with limited material resources, yet our current economic model is designed in a one-way direction from resource extraction to disposal, leading to resource depletion. This book proposes a new economic model, offering an alternative to this linear ‘take-make-waste’ economy - a comprehensive agenda for change.

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Material Matters shows a way of creating a circular economy by using the unlimited resources we have: renewable energy, data, and intelligence. It describes a system based on circular business models centred on selling performance rather than ownership, designing products and buildings as resource banks and equipping products with a ‘material passport’ to ensure their usability for future generations. Businesses thereby become custodians of materials, rather than consumers of materials and sellers of products.

The book evokes the vision of a radically new economic model based on a compelling narrative, supported with cases that have been developed in conjunction with major companies, for example, convincing Philips to sell light instead of lamps, saving energy and materials by creating a whole new business model—a case which has become iconic for the circular economy.

Material Matters is not a somber analysis of the state of the planet but a concrete and comprehensive agenda for change, offering perspectives for taking action for business and individual consumers alike.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032193267

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 December 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 2 Line drawings, color; 36 Halftones, color; 38 Illustrations, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 260

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Marketing & Sales Non-Fiction Sabine Oberhuber Thomas Rau

About the Author

Thomas Rau is an architect, entrepreneur, innovator and recognized thought leader on sustainability and circular economy. His office RAU has been recognized for being at the forefront of producing innovative CO2 neutral, energy positive and circular buildings as a norm. Thomas was elected as Dutch Architect of the Year 2013 and awarded with the ARC13 Oeuvre Award for his widespread contribution in both promoting and realizing sustainable architecture and bringing awareness of the circular economy through international delivered lectures, TV documentaries, TED talks and publications. In 2016, he was nominated for the Circular Economy leadership Award of the World Economic Forum. In 2021, he received the Circular Hero Award by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure.

Sabine Oberhuber is an economist; together with Thomas Rau, she cofounded Turntoo, one of the first companies in the world focusing on the transition to a circular economy. Sabine is a renowned expert on circular economy; together with her team at Turntoo, she assists corporate clients and public institutions in the development and implementation of circular business models and management strategies and facilitates the transition to a circular economy. She studied economics at the Freie Wilhelms University in Münster (Germany) and received her Master of Management from the ESCP (EAP) European School of Management in Paris, Oxford and Berlin.

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