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）被视为应对环境危机的解决方案。然而，主流循环经济措施回避了对无休止经济增长理念的挑战，忽视了社会影响，且未能充分体现减少总体消费等策略。循环社会（CS）通过质疑这一理念来应对上述问题：强调自下而上的社会重组，通过充足性策略解决过度消费问题，并指出需要在地方、区域和全球层面综合考虑自然、社会与技术之间复杂的相互依存关系。然而，目前尚无构建循环社会的蓝图。本论文的初步目标是探索现有社会网络本体论，并开发一种广泛适用的循环社会模型。由于地方、区域和全球层面的自下而上社会重组会对网络复杂性产生叠加效应，因此需要一种数字化这些相互依存关系的技术框架。最后，遵循循环社会透明化与民主化的原则，必须建立一套信任体系，以实现对网络状态的协作共识。