“The governance and practice of change of sustainable consumption and production.” Introduction to the ideas and recommendations presented in the articles in this special issue of the journal of cleaner production |
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| Institution: | 1. Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60616, USA;2. Universidad Centro Americana “José Simeón Cañas” (UCA), Autopista Sur, San Salvador, El Salvador;1. Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IJL, F-54000, Nancy, France;2. Cerema, Univ Gustave Eiffel, UMR MCD, F-77171, Sourdun, France;3. Centre Technique Louis Vicat, 4 Rue Aristide Berges, 38081, L''Isle-d''Abeau, France;1. Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Materials, State University of Campinas, Mendeleyev Street, 200. Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil;2. Laboratory of Innovation Technology Applied, Faculty of Education, State University of Campinas, Bertrand Russell Avenue, 801 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil;3. Laboratory of Technology, Business and Environment Management, Federal Fluminense University, Passo da Pátria Street, 156. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;4. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Lohbruegger Kirchstraße 65, Sector S4, Hamburg Germany;5. Université de Sherbrooke, 2500, Boul. de L’Université, J1K2R1, Sherbrooke, Canada;1. Eco-Industry Research and Training Center, Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand;2. Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Centre of Excellence on Energy Technology and Environment, King Mongkut''s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand;3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand |
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| Abstract: | This special issue is a result of work of Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges (SCORE!). This EU supported network project under the 6th Framework Program engaged a few hundred professionals interested in sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in Europe and beyond. A key goal of the network is to enhance understanding how radical reductions of environmental impacts and at global level a more equitable growth can be realised. In April 2006, SCORE! organised a workshop in Copenhagen with support of the European Environment Agency, titled ‘Governance of change to Sustainable Consumption and Production’. This special issue contains 7 papers based on presentations during that workshop. It further contains a summary of the main conclusions drawn by the SCORE! project team on the basis of a broader review of radical change to SCP from a business, design, consumer and system innovation perspective. The conclusion is unambiguously that governments cannot ‘outsource politics’, but must form a ‘triangle of change’ with business and consumers. We have further to understand the systemic nature of the change required. Some policies are currently more viable than others, given existing mega-trends, mega-structures and mega-views, which cannot be changed easily in the short-term and usually cannot be tackled head-on. Such issues, like paradigms on the possibility of continuous exponential growth, the belief in free markets and trade, need a longer-term deliberative process before change is possible. |
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