Beyond End-of-Life: A Decade of Circular Economy Policy Literature and the Need for Upstream Interventions - Supplementary Data

This dataset was derived from a scoping review of academic journal papers conducted on circular economy policy literature from 2013 to 2023 using the PRISMA framework and focuses on policy interventions across the product life cycle stages – Product Design and Manufacturing; Consumption; and Recovery. Regulatory policies were most common across all product life cycle stages, with few policy types recurring prominently: eco-design policies (product design and manufacturing stage), green procurement, bans, and ecolabelling (consumption stage), and recycling, extended producer responsibility, and reuse and repair policies (recovery stage). Fiscal tools, such as taxes, fees and levies, were more widely discussed than subsidies, while information campaigns were notably underrepresented. Overall, the findings reveal a strong academic focus on end-of-life interventions, and it underscores the need to expand attention to upstream circular economy policy interventions that address earlier life cycle stages, in order to realize more comprehensive and sustainable resource management.

本数据集源自2013至2023年间以PRISMA框架为方法学依据，针对循环经济政策文献所开展的学术期刊论文范围综述（scoping review），研究聚焦于产品全生命周期三大阶段的政策干预手段，即产品设计与制造、消费以及回收阶段。在所有产品全生命周期阶段中，规制类政策最为常见，且有几类政策反复得到突出关注：产品设计与制造阶段的生态设计（eco-design）政策，消费阶段的绿色采购、禁令与生态标签政策，以及回收阶段的回收利用、扩展生产者责任（Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR）、再利用与修复政策。财政工具（如税收、费用与征款）的讨论热度显著高于补贴政策，而信息宣传类政策的受关注程度则明显不足。整体而言，现有研究成果显示学界对生命周期末端干预手段的关注度极高，同时也凸显出有必要进一步拓展对上游循环经济政策干预的关注，即针对生命周期早期阶段的政策干预，以实现更全面且可持续的资源管理。