System Innovation for Sustainability 1: Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production

Arnold Tukker (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1906093032 / ISBN 13: 9781906093037

Edité par Greenleaf Publishing, 2008

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• Titre: System Innovation for Sustainability 1: Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Éditeur: Greenleaf Publishing
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1906093032
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781906093037
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good

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Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) was adopted as a priority area during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 and has since become one of the main vehicles for targeting international sustainability policy. Sustainable consumption focuses on formulating equitable strategies that foster the highest quality of life, the efficient use of natural resources, and the effective satisfaction of human needs while simultaneously promoting equitable social development, economic competitiveness, and technological innovation. But this is a complex topic and, as the challenges of sustainability grow larger, there is a need to re-imagine how SCP policies can be formulated, governed and implemented.

The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges" (SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is that innovation in SCP policy can be achieved only if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if business can profitably make the products and consumers are attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix.

System Innovation for Sustainability 1 is the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from all four communities. It examines what SCP is and what it could be, provides a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. The SCORE! experts are working with actors in industry, consumer groups and eco-labelling organisations in the key consumption areas of mobility, food and agriculture, and energy use and housing – responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies – with the aim of stimulating, fostering or forcing change to SCP theory in practice. The System Innovation for Sustainability series will continue with three further volumes of comprehensive case studies in each of these three critical consumption areas.

Each chapter of this book examines problems and suggests solutions from a business, design, consumer and system innovation perspective. It primarily examines the differing solutions necessary in the consumer economies of the West, but also comments on the differing needs in rapidly emerging economies such as China, as well as base-of-the-pyramid economies.

The System Innovation for Sustainability series is the fruit of the only major international research network on SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come. It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate on sustainable production and consumption from government, business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses and system innovators.

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Dr Arnold Tukker joined TNO in 1990 after some time working for the Dutch Environment Ministry. Over time, his focus shifted from life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis and risk assessment to interactive policy-making and sustainable system innovation and transition management. In 1998 he published a book on societal disputes on toxic substances, for which he was awarded a PhD from Tilburg University. He has published about 40 peer-reviewed papers, 5 books, 10 book chapters and 150 other publications, and is frequently asked as invited speaker worldwide. In his career, he has been awarded over ac;15 million in mainly international research grants. He currently manages the research programme on Transitions and System Innovation within TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Business Unit Innovation and Environment. This programme was evaluated as one of TNO's top-ranking programmes during the 2006 scientific assessment exercise. Arnold is the initiator and manager of the SCORE! network. Martin Charter is the Director and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at The Centre for Sustainable Design at the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester, UK. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. He is the author, editor and joint editor of various books and publications including Greener Marketing (Greenleaf Publishing, 1992 and 1999), The Green Management Gurus [e-book] (1996), Managing Eco-design (Centre for Sustainable Design, 1997) and Sustainable Solutions (Greenleaf Publishing, 2001). Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School in the UK, and has interests in sustainable product design, green(er) marketing, and creativity and innovation. For 15 years Carlo Vezzoli has been researching and teaching design scenarios, strategies, methods and tools for products, services and systems for sustainability. At the Faculty of Design of the Politecnico di Milano he is a professor of Product Design for Environmental Sustainability and of System Design for Sustainability, and director of the Research Unit Design and System Innovation for Sustainability (DIS, INDACO) department. Among other projects, he is coordinator of the international Learning Network on Sustainability (LENS), of curricula development on Design for Sustainability focused on product-service system innovation, funded by the Asia Link Programme, European Commission. Eivind Sto is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway. He gained a Mag.art. in political science from the University of Oslo in 1972. He was an assistant at the Norwegian Election Programme from 1972 to 1976; and from 1976 to 1998 he worked for the Norwegian Fund for Market and Distribution Research. Since 1989, he has been a researcher at SIFO, as Head of Research from 1990, and Director of Research from 1998. He has initiated, participated and coordinated several European projects. His research interests include consumer complaints, consumer policy, sustainable consumption, energy use and nanotechnology. Maj Munch Andersen is a senior scientist at DTU, Denmark, the Danish Technical University. Her work focuses on innovation studies, particularly within eco-innovation processes and nanotechnology, both at the firm, inter-firm, technology and innovation system level. She has a special interest in the analysis of environmental and innovation policy and the relationship between the two. She has previously worked at the Copenhagen Business School as well as spending four years on innovation policy within the Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Danish Ministry of Science where she was responsible for developing a green innovation strategy.