Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems

Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

In 2006, in order to meet the requirements of the Swiss economy and households, around 360 million tonnes of materials were extracted, consumed or displaced in Switzerland or abroad. This represents an increase of 17 % compared with 1990. On the other hand, the increasing sales of organic products in 2007 and 2008 give an indication in changes in household habits towards more sustainable behavior.

Sustainable Consumption & Production , Economic , regeneration

A Proposal of Consumer Driven Framework for Enabling Sustainable Production and Consumption

Sustainability becomes the key towards success of manufacturing industries now. Besides increasing efficiency of sustainable industrial processes, sustainable consumption becomes an important complementary strategy for making economies more sustainable gradually. Hence, the research in sustainable production and consumption (SPaC) keeps emerging and the approach of information transition became...

Information systems to support sustainable consumption and sustainable supply

Responding to rising concerns about environmental sustainability, governments around the world have committed to the promotion of more sustainable consumption patterns. Mainstream approaches to promoting sustainable consumption often involve government interventions: to correct prices, and to provide regulatory frameworks to influence producers to become more eco-efficient. Unfortunately, the s...

Sustainable food consumption and production in a resource-constrained world

In the framework of a wide foresight process, launched by the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) and aiming to identify possible scenarios for European agriculture in a long-term perspective, the European Commission (DG RTD-E4) established a “3rd Foresight Expert Group” that conducted a scanning and monitoring exercise of recent relevant foresight activities undertaken by nation...