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System Innovation for Sustainability 2 - Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Mobility (Hardcover, New)
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System Innovation for Sustainability 2 - Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Mobility (Hardcover, New)
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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 (sustainable consumption and production)
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 make the
products profitably and consumers are attracted to them. To
understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of
systems thinkers must be added to the mix. The publication in 2008
of System Innovation for Sustainability 1 was the first result of a
unique positive confrontation between experts from all four
communities. It examined what SCP is and what it could be, provided
a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy
and looked at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches.
System Innovation for Sustainability 2 is the first of three books
of case studies covering, respectively, the three key consumption
areas of: mobility; food and agriculture; and energy use and
housing. These three areas are responsible for 70% of the
life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies. These case
studies aim to stimulate, foster or force change to SCP theory in
practice. System Innovation for Sustainability 2 focuses on change
towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases
analysed from a system perspective. It examines what changes can be
made to help us reduce our need for mobility, or start to make use
of more sustainable mobility systems. This is clearly a critical
and highly problematic area, as increasing living standards of a
growing global population have resulted in rapid rises in both car
and air travel along with the associated pollution. Uniquely, this
book approaches the problems and solutions from a systems
perspective, explaining the meta-trends, specific issues for the
mobility sector, socioeconomic trends, political considerations,
socio-cultural developments and environmental issues. As well as
the mobility system itself, other societal systems that impact the
need for mobility, such as labour and taxation, are addressed in
order to provide sustainable solutions to our current "lock-in"
problems. Three major problem areas are considered (the "three
Cs"): carbon emissions (and the growing contribution of mobility to
the climate change crisis), congestion, and casualties. And each
strategy proposed addresses one or more of these problem areas.
Among the cases discussed are: Norway's carbon compensation scheme
for air travel; Madrid's high-occupancy vehicle lanes; London's
congestion charge scheme; market-based instruments such as
eco-labelling for cars; and taxation. The book identifies
opportunities for actors such as governments, manufacturers and
consumers to intervene in the complex system to promote sustainable
mobility. It concludes with a reflection on problems, trends and
action needed. The System Innovation for Sustainability series is
the fruit of the first 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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