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System Innovation for Sustainability 1 - Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production (Hardcover, New)
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System Innovation for Sustainability 1 - Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production (Hardcover, New)
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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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