Abstract
The water and wastewater sectors play a vital role in establishing a water-smart society by integrating circular economy principles. The interconnections between water, sanitation, health, ecosystems, oceans, energy, food systems, and nutrition have been widely discussed and accepted by governments and stakeholders in the water sector. In this regard, it is essential to identify effective strategies to address these interconnected challenges and optimize water resource management to achieve the social, economic, and environmental objectives in national development plans.
This chapter summarizes the results of the scenario analyses toward the circular economy performed for the Corleone (Italy) case study within the EU project Wider Uptake. The key objective of this chapter is to present the future scenario of the Corleone case study. Several efforts have been performed during the Wider Uptake project as preliminary work to set up a roadmap toward the transition to the circular economy. Within these efforts, this chapter also discussed identifying the key existing barriers in the Corleone case study toward the transition. The interactions of key involved actors, the scenario analysis, and alternative solutions are also discussed. With this regard, the forecasting section of the first version of the roadmapping approach (namely, F1 “Projecting possible futures or scenarios”, F2 “Visioning the system in the future”, and F3 “Synthesis”) is discussed. As a result, the key objectives and the possible actions to be applied based on scenario analysis results are identified for the Corleone case study. In this regard, the conceptual scheme of the identified solutions is provided and discussed in the conclusion section.