Abstract:

This paper aims to create an image of the relationship between circular economy and renewable energy through specialized papers published between 2000 and 2019. In this way, this paper is based on the study and analysis of the literature published on this topic in the last 2 decades. The paper also discusses how policies and measures towards circular economy can be integrated into the European body, with a positive effect on the society and environment. After the presentation of the methodology, the paper develops an analysis in time and space of the selected scientific papers, then an analysis of the keywords with their grouping on clusters, creating a map of them and highlighting the existing relationships. Moreover, the paper also presents a density map regarding the most important keywords used in the literature to develop the link between ”renewable energy” and ”circular economy”. Among the most interesting results are: (1) a massive concentration of works in the last three years of the period considered in the analysis; (2) Europe is one of the regions with the largest contribution in terms of authors; (3) The keyword map is particularly useful in revealing the link between keywords in the analysed context: the relationship between circular economy and renewable energy. Finally, the paper presents possible limits of the research, but also future directions of its development.