Abstract

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
Radical and more systemic changes are needed in the way we produce and consume. However, there are a number of conceptual, analytical and practical challenges with system-level changes. In this chapter we analyse existing product-service system (PSS) cases that serve as approximations of desired systemic innovations and discuss the dynamics and transformations needed in PSSs to attain SCP. Then, drawing on system view of the processes of innovation, we construct a conceptual map of PSS system components and the underlying institutional and structural elements, to provoke a discussion of the dynamics of change and potential for policy stimuli.
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