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System Innovation for Sustainability 1 : Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production.
Title:
System Innovation for Sustainability 1 : Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production.
Author:
Tukker, Arnold.
ISBN:
9781907643361
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (482 pages)
Series:
System Innovation for Sustainability ; v.1

System Innovation for Sustainability
Contents:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. The context of this book -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sustainability: a multi-interpretable notion: The book's normative stance -- Part 2. Business perspective -- 3. Review: the role of business in realising sustainable consumption and production -- 4. Business models for sustainable energy -- 5. Alternative business models for a sustainable automotive industry -- 6. Sustainability-related innovation and the Porter Hypothesis: How to innovate for energy-efficient consumption and production -- 7. Marketing in the age of sustainable development -- Part 3. Design perspective -- 8. Review: design for sustainable consumption and production systems -- 9. Design for (social) sustainability and radical change -- 10. Social innovation and design of promising solutions towards sustainability: Emerging demand for sustainable solutions (EMUDE) -- 11. Eco-Innovative Cities Australia: A pilot project for the ecodesign of services in eight local councils -- 12. Is a radical systemic shift toward sustainability possible in China? -- Part 4. Consumer perspective -- 13. Review: a multi-dimensional approach to the study of consumption in modern societies and the potential for radical sustainable changes -- 14. Product-service systems: Taking a functional and a symbolic perspective on usership -- 15. Social capital, lifestyles and consumption patterns -- 16. Linking sustainable consumption to everyday life: A social-ecological approach to consumption research -- 17. Emerging sustainable consumption patterns in Central Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on Hungary -- Part 5. System innovation policy perspective -- 18. Review: system transition processes for realising sustainable consumption and production.

19. System innovations in innovation systems: Conceptual foundations and experiences with Adaptive Foresight in Austria -- 20. Transition management for sustainable consumption and production -- 21. Systemic changes and sustainable consumption and production: Cases from product-service systems -- Part 6. Conclusions and integration -- 22. Conclusions: change management for sustainable consumption and production -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Index -- Index.
Abstract:
A result of a collaboration between experts from business, design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy. This title examines what sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is. It provides a review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of approaches.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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