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We are delighted to announce the publication on March 5th, 2008 of:
SYSTEM INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY 1
PERSPECTIVES ON RADICAL CHANGES TO SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND
PRODUCTION
Edited by Arnold Tukker, Martin Charter, Carlo Vezzoli, Eivind Stø and
Maj Munch Andersen
x + 470 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-03-7 | March
2008
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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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/content/pdfs/sifs1pref.pdf
Part 1: The context of this book
1 Introduction
Arnold Tukker, Sophie Emmert, Martin Charter, Carlo Vezzoli, Eivind
Stø, Maj Munch Andersen, Theo Geerken, Ursula Tischner and Saadi Lahlou
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/content/pdfs/sifs1intro.pdf
2 Sustainability: a multi-interpretable notion: the book's normative
stance
Arnold Tukker, TNO, The Netherlands
Part 2: Business perspective
3 Review: the role of business in realising sustainable consumption and
production
Martin Charter, Casper Gray, Tom Clark and Tim Woolman, The Centre for
Sustainable Design, UK
4 Business models for sustainable energy
Rolf Wüstenhagen and Jasper Boehnke, Institute for Economy and the
Environment, Switzerland
5 Alternative business models for a sustainable automotive industry
Peter Wells, Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability,
Sustainability and Society, UK
6 Sustainability-related innovation and the Porter Hypothesis: how to
innovate for energy-efficient consumption and production
Marcus Wagner, BETA and TUM Business School, Germany
7 Marketing in the age of sustainable developmen
Frank-Martin Belz, Technische Universität München, Germany
Part 3: Design perspective
8 Review: design for sustainable consumption and production systems
Carlo Vezzoli, Design and Innovation for Sustainability, Italy, and
Ezio Manzini, INDACO-Politecnico di Milano, Italy
9 Design for (social) sustainability and radical change
Ursula Tischner, econcept, Agency for Sustainable Design, Cologne,
Germany
10 Social innovation and design of promising solutions towards
sustainability: emerging demand for sustainable solutions (EMUDE)
François Jégou, Strategic Design Scenarios, Belgium
11 Eco-Innovative Cities Australia: a pilot project for the ecodesign
of services in eight local councils
Chris Ryan, University of Melbourne, Australia
12 Is a radical systemic shift toward sustainability possible in China?
Benny C.H. Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 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
Eivind Stø, Harald Throne-Holst, Pål Strandbakken and Gunnar Vittersø,
SIFO, Norway
14 Product-service systems: taking a functional and a symbolic
perspective on usership
Gerd Scholl, Institut fuur ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW),
Germany
15 Social capital, lifestyles and consumption patterns
Dario Padovan, University of Torino, Italy
16 Linking sustainable consumption to everyday life: a
social-ecological approach to consumption research
Irmgard Schultz and Immanuel Stieß, Institute for Social-Ecological
Research, Germany
17 Emerging sustainable consumption patterns in Central Eastern Europe,
with a specific focus on Hungary
Edina Vadovics, Central European University, Hungary
Part 5: System innovation policy perspective
18 Review: system transition processes for realising sustainable
consumption and production
Maj Munch Andersen, Oe-DTU, Denmark
19 System innovations in innovation systems: conceptual foundations and
experiences with Adaptive Foresight in Austria
K. Matthias Weber and Klaus Kubeczko, ARC systems research, Austria,
and Harald Rohracher, IFZ-Inter-University Research Centre, Austria
20 Transition management for sustainable consumption and production
RenÈ Kemp, UNU-MERIT, ICIS, Drift and TNO, Denmark
21 Systemic changes and sustainable consumption and production: cases
from product-service systems
Oksana Mont and Tareq Emtairah, International Institute for Industrial
Environmental Economics, Sweden
Part 6: Conclusions and integration
22 Conclusions: change management for sustainable consumption and
production
Arnold Tukker, TNO, The Netherlands
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