Global Value Chains and Climate Change
Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths
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Lund-Thomsen, P; Rehman, U; Gereffi, G
January 1, 2025
This chapter builds a new theoretical framework for exploring whether global recycling networks (GRNs) are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. In applying this theoretical framework to vignettes of global clothing recycling, e-waste recycling, and ship breaking and recycling, we use tools from the global value chain (GVC) literature and GRN writings to critically evaluate how such recycling networks may influence economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainability in positive and negative directions. The conclusion highlights our main findings and draws out future research and policy implications of this analysis.
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Lund-Thomsen, P., Rehman, U., & Gereffi, G. (2025). Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths. In Global Value Chains and Climate Change (pp. 145–173). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310968.00017
Lund-Thomsen, P., U. Rehman, and G. Gereffi. “Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths.” In Global Value Chains and Climate Change, 145–73, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310968.00017.
Lund-Thomsen P, Rehman U, Gereffi G. Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths. In: Global Value Chains and Climate Change. 2025. p. 145–73.
Lund-Thomsen, P., et al. “Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths.” Global Value Chains and Climate Change, 2025, pp. 145–73. Scopus, doi:10.4337/9781035310968.00017.
Lund-Thomsen P, Rehman U, Gereffi G. Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: Ecologically unequal exchange and divergent governance paths. Global Value Chains and Climate Change. 2025. p. 145–173.