摘要: India’s manufacturing sector is intrinsically linked to the country’s economic growth, targeting 25% share of GDP by 2025 (IBEF, 2019b). Concomitantly, the nation’s escalating material, energy and water consumption, coupled with challenges in the recovery and management of waste have put resources efficiency at the forefront of current policy. Circularity of resources in order to create closed-loop systems for technical and biological nutrients, as a means of extending the useful life of materials and reducing losses through atmospheric emissions and wastage, signifies a shift to a circular economy. This is a marked transformation from the predominantly linear economy which relies on material extraction, production, limited use and disposal. Delinking resource consumption (quantity and intensity) from economic growth and ecological impact, also referred to as decoupling, promises more sustainable development.Circular economy in Indian industry is severely under-explored. Paucity of field data and the lack of common indicators for measurement, coupled with variations in data collection and reporting methodologies have limited scholarly examination of the circular economy in India, to date. This thesis presents a multi-stakeholder ecosystem view by investigating India’s realisation of the circular economy through six case studies in manufacturing industrial parks (Naroda,
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