Over-claiming the circular economy: The missing dimensions

Landfills And The Circular Economy

Promotion of resource efficiency and development towards a circular economy is widely supported. Many products and materials that are brought into the economy contain hazardous substances. These substances may be acceptable during the consumption stage, but due to accumulation in the environment may also cause impact to human health and the environment after consumption. The primary goal of was...

Waste and circular economy

The over-claiming technique: measuring self-enhancement independent of ability.

Over-claiming is a concrete operalization of self-enhancement based on respondents' ratings of their knowledge of various persons, events, products, and so on. Because 20% of the items are nonexistent, responses can be analyzed with signal detection formulas to index both response bias (over-claiming) and accuracy (knowledge). Study 1 demonstrated convergence of over-claiming with alternative m...

The Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data

The aim of this special issue is to draw attention to ‘missing dimensions’ of poverty data – dimensions that are of value to poor people, but for which we have scant or no data. Amartya Sen frames development as the process of expanding the freedoms that people value and have reason to value. Although the most widely-known measure of human development includes income, longevity, and education, ...

Sustainability beyond Environmentalism : the Missing Dimensions

The socio-economic and political dimensions of sustainable development have most often been neglected when developing future scenarios. At best, the social dimension has been dealt with as a framework condition for successful environmental sustainability strategies. The institutional one has been discussed regarding integrating the environment into other policies, but hardly as a dimension of s...