Conference Agenda

Session

S1-1: Principles of Circular Economy

Time:

Wednesday, 01/July/2026:

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Pascal Guiraud

Location: Amphi B00

Presentations

11:00am - 11:15am

Agreements and differences between Meadows and N. Georgescu-Roegen works about the biophysical bedrocks of economical process

Benjamin Birig

University of Toulouse Paul-Sabatier, France ; University of Paris Cité, France

Birig-Agreements and differences between Meadows and N Georgescu-Roegen works-226.pdf

11:15am - 11:30am

The Limits of Exponential Laws: When Physics and Chemistry Set the Pace

Christian BRUERE¹, Maxence DENU², Jean-Pierre RASKIN³

1: Durares / Mob-ion; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Laboratoire G-SCOP, 38000 Grenoble, France; 3: Information and Communications Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université catholique de Louvain, Place du Levant, 3, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

BRUERE-The Limits of Exponential Laws-236.pdf

11:30am - 11:45am

Aircraft reuse for fighting against wildfires: Circular Economy for social and environmental issues

Dominique Legendre¹, David Joubert², Pascal Guiraud³

1: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Univ. Toulouse, France; 2: Kepplair Evolution, Toulouse, France; 3: Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Univ. Toulouse, INSA, INRAE, CNRS Toulouse, France

Legendre-Aircraft reuse for fighting against wildfires-232.pdf

11:45am - 12:00pm

Circular Economy Transition of European Regions: The Role of Regulative, Normative, and Cultural-Cognitive Institutions

Duygu Buyukiazici¹, Olivier Brossard², Ron Boschma³

1: London School of Economics; 2: Sciences Po Toulouse, France; 3: Utrecht University

Buyukiazici-Circular Economy Transition of European Regions-162.pdf