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System Innovation for Sustainability 2 Theo Geerken

System Innovation for Sustainability 2 By Theo Geerken

System Innovation for Sustainability 2 by Theo Geerken


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Focuses on change towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases analysed from a system perspective. This work examines how changes can be realized so that consumers and end-users on average will start to reduce their need for mobility, or start to make use of more sustainable mobility systems.

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System Innovation for Sustainability 2: Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Mobility by Theo Geerken

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.

About Theo Geerken

THEO GEERKEN is Project Manager for the Product and Technology Studies group at the Flemish Research Institute VITO. MADS BORUP is a senior scientist in the Innovation Systems and Foresight section at the Technical University of Denmark.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Theo Geerken and An Vercalsteren, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium Mads Borup, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering Arnold Tukker, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) 2. Review of the mobility domain Theo Geerken and An Vercalsteren, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium and Mads Borup, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering 3. Work Closer to Home: A web-based service to reduce home-work travel S.J.F.M. Maase and J.W.A. Dekker, VU Amsterdam, in cooperation with Adapt BV, The Netherlands 4. Carbon compensation scheme for air mobility in Norway Mads Borup, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering 5. Madrid's high-occupancy vehicle lanes Theo Geerken, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium 6. Moving car commuters to public transport in Copenhagen: Appeals to consumer responsibility and improving structural conditions as a means to promote sustainable consumer behaviour John Thogersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark 7. The Munich Dialogue Marketing Campaign for New Citizens: Using residential relocation as a starting point for breaking car use habit Sebastian Bamberg, University of Applied Science Bielefeld, Germany 8. The London congestion charge scheme An Vercalsteren and Theo Geerken, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium 9. Consumer-oriented strategies for car purchases: an analysis of environmental information tools and taxation schemes in The Netherlands Jorrit Nijhuis and Sander van den Burg, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 10. Environmental vehicle excise duty in Sweden Mads Borup, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering 11. Conclusions: sustainable consumption and production in the mobility domain Theo Geerken, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium, Mads Borup, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering and Arnold Tukker, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

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GOR012662782
9781906093235
1906093237
System Innovation for Sustainability 2: Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Mobility by Theo Geerken
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20091101
177
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