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Towards a circular nutrient economy. A novel way to analyze the circularity of nutrient flows in food systems

Robin Harder, Mario Giampietro, Sean Smukler

Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2021

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Summary

Recent years have seen a steep rise in the interest in nutrient circularity. In the context of food systems and waste management, nutrient circularity seems to generally encompass the reduction of nutrient losses and increased recovery of nutrients from various organic residual streams for reuse in agricultural production. Many studies that aim to contribute to improving nutrient circularity in food systems have limited the analysis to a given geographical area. But nutrient circularity likely looks different when the analysis includes what happens outside the borders of the considered area. This paper presents and discusses an analytical framework that allows for the analysis of nutrient circularity not only inside a given geographical area being considered, but also in those parts of the

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Food supply chain
DOI
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105693
Catalogue ID
SNmp4zky41-x47ky8
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