Industry 4.0: Empowering ASEAN for the Circular Economy

Abstract

The chapters in this volume show the key opportunities as well as challenges in embracing the two concepts in the context of the fast-growing emerging economies of ASEAN. Transforming the challenges into opportunities requires the participation of the full breadth of society and actions in nations, sectors, supply chains, and cities. Major trend corrections are needed to get the regionally integrated economies on a pathway towards circularity that is aided by Industry 4.0. The contributing chapters identify key levers and point to inconvenient truths that provide systemic challenges for moving to circularity by the middle of the 21st century.