Figure 1
A hierarchical flowchart. At the top, “SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL STEWARDSHIP IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY TRANSITIONS” emerges through three themes: Transition Accountability, Adaptive Governance, and Material Stewardship. This flows down to “INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE,” comprising three domains: LEGAL EXPERTISE (Contractual Frameworks: Service-based contracts, Ownership structures, Material responsibility, Performance metrics), ACCOUNTING EXPERTISE (Valuation & Reporting Innovations: Material lifecycle assessment, Residual value recognition, Dynamic depreciation, Circular reporting metrics), and FINANCIAL EXPERTISE (Innovative Financing: Circular investment models, Material value guarantees, Performance-based loans, Digital monitoring & data infrastructures, Long-term risk assessment). These converge at the bottom into “CIRCULAR ECONOMY IMPLEMENTATION IN CONSTRUCTION.”Enabling situated socio-ecological stewardship: integrating accounting, legal, and financial infrastructures for circular economy implementation through Transition Accountability, Adaptive Governance, and Material Stewardship. *Note: The three central stewardship themes – Transition Accountability, Adaptive Governance, and Material Stewardship – emerged through empirical analysis of focus group discussions. These themes build upon, but do not map one-to-one onto, the initial theoretical framing of corporate biosphere stewardship, adaptive governance, and radical traceability. The framework reflects this evolution, positioning socio-ecological stewardship as a situated and relational accomplishment within circular economy transitions