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Sustainable Consumer Services: Business Solutions for Household Markets book cover

1st Edition

Sustainable Consumer Services Business Solutions for Household Markets

By Minna Halme, Gabriele Hrauda, Christine Jasch, Jaap Kortman, Helga Jonuschat, Michael Scharp, Daniela Velte, Paula Trindade Copyright 2005
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth. Yet exactly how to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers without contributing to environmental degradation is proving to be the essential, but elusive goal for businesses in the 21st century. The leading solution is to substitute material consumption with the consumption of services that... Read more
Preface * Win-win-win? Ecologically, Socially and Economically Sound Services * Innovative Home Service Examples and Their Sustainability Effects * What Conditions the Demand for Sustainable Household Services? * Who Provides Homeservices? * Drivers and Hindrances for Sustainable Homeservices * Business Models and Service Development * Rediscovering Immaterial Pleasure * Index

Biography

Minna Halme is an adjunct professor at Helsinki School of Economics Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Research Group, Finland. Gabriele Hrauda is a freelance biologist working with the Institute for Environmental Management and Economics (I W), Austria. Christine Jasch is director of the Institute for Environmental Management and Economics, I W, Austria. Jaap Kortman is a member of the management team of IVAM Research and Consultancy on Sustainability, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Helga Jonuschat is scientifi c assistant at the IZT Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, Germany. Michael Scharp is scientist at the IZT Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, Germany. Daniela Velte is partner and senior researcher at Prospektiker European Institute for Futures Studies and Strategic Planning in the Basque Country, Spain. Paula Trindade is at the Centre for Sustainable Business Development of INETI, Portugal.

'This book represents state of the art knowledge about sustainable services.' Ulf Schrader, Journal of Cleaner Production
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