Embedding the Circular Economy in Investment Decision-making for Capital Assets – A Business Case Framework

Procedia CIRP 48 ( 2016 ) 425 – 430

2212-8271 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 23rd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.04.087

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