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Sustainable Consumer Services |
Business Solutions for Household Markets:
* Highlights a booming sector: the supply of sustainable consumer services for household markets (such as delivery of organic food, mobile
laundry services or car pooling)
* Shows how businesses, housing organizations, NGOs and public providers can develop and evaluate sustainable consumer service business models and offer sustainable services profitably
* Provides invaluable market data covering 200 innovative sustainable services from Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and
Finland, and extensive customer survey results
Sustainable consumer services for household markets--i.e. services that are offered to a consumer at the premises such as home delivery
of organic food, appliance leasing, mobile laundry services, or car pool schemes--are viewed by many as the way forward in reducing
material consumption while turning a profit. Yet until now there has been little information to guide the development of such business
models and practices and to develop ways to make service-based consumption models more attractive to consumers than object
ownership-based models. This book sheds light on the missing links of sustainable household service competitiveness by providing best practice examples and surveys of consumer behavior to show how such services can be provided cost-effectively and garner tremendous benefits for consumers and service providers, be they public, private or non-profit, as well as the environment.
Contents:
Preface; The Authors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1) Win-Win-Win? Ecologically, Socially and Economically Sound Services; 2) Innovative Homeservice Examples and their Sustainability Effects; 3) What Conditions the Demand for Sustainable Household Services?; 4) Who Provides Homeservices?; 5) Drivers and Hindrances of Sustainable Homeservices; 6) Business Models and Service Development; 7) Rediscovering Immaterial Pleasure; References; Index.
"An eye-opener for would-be entrepreneurs stuck in the 'goods' paradigm."
-- Future Survey
"This book represents state of the art knowledge about sustainable services. It provides rich and broad pictures of today’s situation, a possible future and ways to get from one to the other. Thus, I strongly recommend it and hope that it will find a lot of readers not only within the scientific community but also among the decision makers in relevant businesses, public authorities and NGOs."
-- Ulf Schrader, Journal of Cleaner Production
208 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", figures & tables, January 2008
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Paula Trindade
Edited by Minna Halme , Gabriele Hrauda , Christine Jasch , Jaap Kortman , Helga Jonuschat , Michael Scharp , Daniela Velte
Minna Halme is an assistant professor at Helsinki School of Economics’ Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Research Group. She is a member of the editorial board of Business Strategy and the Environment, and belongs to the Action Planning Committee of the Greening of the Industry Network. Halme has published in several scientific journals including: Ecological Economics, Journal of Management Studies, Business Strategy and the Environment, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Greener Management International, Business Ethics: A European Review, Journal of Cleaner Production, and The Finnish Journal of Business Economics.
Gabriele Hrauda is a free-lance biologist and works closely with the I?W in Vienna.
Christine Jasch is Director of the Institute for Environmental Management and Economics, I?W in Austria and is also Certified Public Accountant and verifier for EMAS, ISO 14001, and sustainability reports.
Jaap Kortman is a member of the management team of IVAM research and consultancy on sustainability, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is the manager of the departments of Sustainable Building and Chain Management. He is member of the international Task group Urban Sustainability (Tg38) of the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation.
Helga Jonuschat is scientific assistant at the IZT? Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment since 2000. Her research focuses on sustainable urban and regional development, the city and region of the future, ICT applications for the housing sector, and home services.
Michael Scharp works as a scientist at the IZT Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment. His current working areas are methods of innovation transfer.
Daniela Velte is Partner and Senior Researcher at Prospektiker European Institute for Futures Studies and Strategic Planning in the Basque Country, Spain. She is also in charge of managing most European research projects in which Prospektiker participates.
Paula Trindade has worked at the Centre for Sustainable Business Development of the National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology since 1995 in the areas of cleaner production/eco-efficiency and wastewater treatment. Her activities are related to sustainable services, integrated product policy, and green procurement. She is currently involved in several European projects and coordinates one major LIFE Environment project in the area of IPP.
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