Policies for supporting the regional circular economy and sustainabilityPolicies for supporting the regional circular economy and sustainability Εισαγωγή Επιμελητή Editorial 2024-02-222022enThe Circular Economy and Sustainability are among the greatest challenges faced by policymakers, producers, and consumers. Circular Economy processes demand less from the environment since they can minimize waste generation and, hence, can be powerful tools to combat the negative effects of climate change. Additionally, following subsidiarity principles, public policies supporting the Circular Economy should be designed at the lowest levels of public administrations—this provides huge opportunities for regional governments to design, implement and monitor these policies. This editorial of the special issue explores and discusses implications for those policies before introducing the five papers published in the special issue dedicated to policies for regional economy and sustainability. While some of the papers attempt to conceptualize sustainable development through a microeconomic perspective, others have a clear macroeconomic empirical focus. In consequence, this special issue provides a rich body of work for further Circularity and Sustainability nexus studies.This work arises from the INFER Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability organized at the University of Thrace in July 2020.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Annals of Regional Science682255–262Arauzo-Carod_et_al_Ann. Reg. Sci._68(2)_2022.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2024-02-22application/pdf478.0 kBfree Arauzo-Carod, Josep Maria Kostakis Ioannis Tsagarakis Konstantinos Τσαγκαρακης Κωνσταντινος Springer Circular economy Public policies Regional economics Sustainability