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The circular economy model in the socio-economic systems of the wood industry : the case of the Tomsk oblast

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Using the Circular Economy (CE) model appears to be today a means more and more employed by organizations and public policies to overcome the problem of waste and bring it to a new stage of progress: the one of sustainability. If the issue of diagnosis and the need for a transition to CE is generally no longer discussed, the question of its implementation is all the more so, especially in Russia. Depending on the type of economic sector and the territory considered, an CE strategy cannot be viewed in the same way. Whether in terms of natural resources, labour or capital, different economic factors are brought to interfere in the search for circularity and sustainability. The objective of this thesis is thus to explore the multidimensionality of CE through the case of the Russian timber industry and of the Tomsk Oblast in order to study the influence of these different economic factors and understand how a CE strategy can be established at the level of an organization and its territory. It also suggests the use of a method that makes it possible to analyze the different levels of generalization of the economic system.The first contribution of the thesis is the creation of a global approach by the Soft System Method (SSM) and its Integrated Modeling (IM) device as a procedure allowing to (i) structure and observe all the economic factors participating in the valuation of a resource, (ii) in terms of circularity and sustainability, (iii) in a sector of activity and on a given territory. The second contribution of the thesis lies in the constitution of a method for the choice of circular technologies. This highlights the different approaches that can lead an organization to initiate a transition to a CE model, the constraints and opportunities of which are found at several levels of generalization: micro, but also meso and macro. These research results must be reproduced through the case of other economic sectors and territories, which will make it possible to advance empirical research on the one hand, and on the other hand potentially lead to the creation of first integrated evaluation models in the field of CE.