Environmental innovation and ecodesign : certainties and controversies / Romain Debref

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Debref, Romain [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series Smart innovation set$lvolume 17 | Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series ; volume 17Publisher: London : ISTE, 2018Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2018Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:

9781119543947

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Summary: 1.1.4. Conceptual beginnings and an existential crisis in environmental innovations during the 2000s1.2. Critical analysis of the typology of environmental innovations; 1.2.1. Degrees of change of environmental innovation; 1.2.2. "End-of-pipe" technologies: a limited palliative approach to conservation of the environment?; 1.2.3. Clean technologies, a preventive, radical and modular approach; 1.2.4. The circular economy: Another form of systemic environmental innovation; 1.2.5. The quest for eco-efficiency, an objective based on a productivist approachSummary: 1.3. Drivers of environmental innovation in the face of institutional tensions1.3.1. Modifying the dominant design, thanks to transition management theory; 1.3.2. Moving towards a specificity of technological trajectories of environmental innovations?; 1.3.3. Creation of technical conventions promoting conservation of the environment; 1.3.4. The rebound effect, the forgotten impacts and macrosystemic crises; 1.4. Conclusion; 2. Ecodesign and Technological Change: A Missed Opportunity?; 2.1. Ecodesign and the dispute over methodsSummary: 2.1.1. Ecodesign during the 1970s, the metronome of a new mode of development2.1.2. First theorization and confrontation with reality during the course of the 1980s; 2.1.3. Birth of sustainable development and a rocky start for industrialists; 2.1.4. The limited effects of an "open" ecodesign philosophy; 2.2. The main determining factors of ecodesign; 2.2.1. Integration of the environment: the end result of totalquality management; 2.2.2. Towards environmental declarations about products; 2.2.3. A multitude of tools to encourage ecodesignSummary: 2.3. Product life cycle analysis: a limited tool for decisionmaking in the face of complexity2.3.1. Towards supremacy of the life cycle analysis; 2.3.2. Product life cycle analysis: a tool weakened by complexity; 2.4. Ecodesign confronted with environmental and economic problems; 2.4.1. The different concepts of the environment, a multidimensional and complex notion; 2.4.2. The environment from the perspective of Boltanski and Thévenot's "worlds"; 2.4.3. Towards a "tragedy of change"?; 2.5. Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; IndexSummary: Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Environmental Innovation: A Controversial Doctrine; 1.1. Progressive conceptualization of "environmental innovation": a journey back through 40 years of controversies; 1.1.1. Environmental concerns and innovations: the first proposals of economic theory during the 1970s; 1.1.2. Involvement in environmental technologies and green growth in the 1980s; 1.1.3. Diverse theoretical appropriations of the concept by economic sciences from the 1990s onwardsPPN: PPN: 1689314478Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK

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