The Circular Economy (CE) is regarded as a solution to the environmental crisis. However, mainstream CE measures skirt around challenging the ethos of ever-increasing economic growth,overlooking social impacts and under-representing solutions such as reducing overall consumption. Circular Societies (CS) address these concerns by challenging this ethos. They emphasize ground-up social reorganization, address over-consumption through sufficiency strategies, and highlight the need for considering the complex inter-dependencies between nature, society, and technology on local,regional and global levels. However, no blueprint exists for forming CSs. An initial objective of my thesis is exploring existing social-network ontologies and developing a broadly applicable model for CSs. Since ground-up social reorganization on local, regional,and global levels has compounding effects on network complexities, a technological framework digitizing these inter-dependencies is necessary. Finally, adhering to CS principles of transparency and democratization, a system of trust is necessary to achieve collaborative consensus of the network state.

翻译：循环经济（CE）被视为破解环境危机的方案。然而，主流CE措施回避了挑战持续经济增长的信条，忽视了社会影响，且未能充分体现减少总体消费等解决方案。循环社会（CS）通过挑战这一信条回应了上述问题：其强调自下而上的社会重组，通过充足性策略应对过度消费，并指出需要在地方、区域和全球层面综合考虑自然、社会与技术之间的复杂相互依存关系。但目前尚不存在建立CS的蓝图。本论文的首要目标是探索现有社交网络本体论，并开发具有广泛适用性的CS模型。鉴于地方、区域和全球层面的自下而上社会重组会加剧网络复杂性，亟需建立数字化这些相互依存关系的技术框架。最终，为遵循CS的透明化与民主化原则，必须构建信任体系以实现网络状态的协作共识。