Meet the editor

Tao Zhang completed his Ph.D. from Nanjing University. He is an Associate Professor, Ph.D. supervisor, and the Deputy Dean of the Department of Environment Science and Engineering, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University. He was a visiting scholar at Arizona State University in 2014 and in the University of Hohenheim in 2017. He has published 60 papers in highly reputed international

journals, such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Water Research, Green Chemistry, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Bioresource Technology, and Science of the Total Environment, and has been authorized 17 China invention patents. He has won the prize "Science Chinese for Outstanding Young Scientist".

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Rossitsa Chobanova*

Economic Transition

*by Oleg Golichenko*

*by Virginia Zhelyazkova*

*by Jean Pierre Doussoulin*

**Preface XI**

Practice Circular Economy and Take the Road of Green Development **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

Regulation and Control of Economic Development **37**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 61**

**Chapter 5 75**

Opportunity and Future of Circular Economy Development **85**

**Chapter 6 87**

**Chapter 7 103**

Meeting the Needs of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Entrepreneurial

Meso Trajectories in the National Innovation System and Their Regulation

Circular Economy as a New Stage of Economic Development

Sustainability Route for Industry 4.0: The Future of Global Circular

*by Smitha Chandran Sreedevi and Razim Mohammed Salahudeen*

The Role of Banks for the Transition to Circular Economy

*by Hanim Kamaruddin, Rosilah Hassan, Norasmah Othman,* 

Responding to Changes in Environmental Turbulence - A Strategy to Driving Business Growth in Facing Economic Downturns

*by Librita Arifiani, Harjanto Prabowo, Asnan Furinto and Wibowo Kosasih*

COVID-19: Turning a Threat into an Opportunity for the Circular Economy

Education in Malaysia: The Government's Role

*Wan Mimi Diyana Wan Zaki and Sarmila Md Sum*

## Contents

*by Jean Pierre Doussoulin*


Preface

With the rapid development of the economy, human civilization has experienced fishing and hunting civilization, as well as agricultural civilization to the present green civilization. The relationship between the economy and environment has also changed from pursuing economic growth at the expense of the environment to the harmonious development of the economy and environment. Cleaner production and a circular economy have become the general trend of global development.

How to adjust the relationship between resources, ecological environment, and economic development and protect the environment in promoting economic growth has become a major goal pursued by producers. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview for reading, deepen everyone's understanding of a circular economy, change the original way of thinking and lifestyle, and

**Tao Zhang**

Beijing, China

China Agricultural University,

promote the development of society towards a virtuous circle.
