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4. Green Economy as a Framework for Product-Service Systems Development: The Role of Sustainable Living Labs

Authors : Carolin Baedeker, Christa Liedtke, Maria Jolanta Welfens

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the role of Sustainable Living Labs for the implementation and diffusion of low resource and sustainable Product-Service Systems (SPSS) in a “Green Economy”. In recent years the concept of “Green Economy” has emerged as a strategic priority for governments and intergovernmental organisations. Several governmental and industrial strategies reflect aspects of a variety of its definition searching for implementation of its principles. Therefore, we will start off by giving an overview of different definitions of the green economy showing its relevance for micro-oriented approaches. Subsequently, eight key areas of intervention in a Green Economy, which set up the frame and orientation of our sustainable Living Lab (SLL) approach (Sect. 4.1), are presented. The Sect. 4.2 deals with the relevance of Living Labs for the transformation process of the socio-economic regime. This process consists of changing the production-consumption systems towards sustainability through modifying processes and SPSS on the micro level. SLL focuses on sustainability innovations and offers a number of new characteristics reflecting the intervention arenas, which are described in Sect. 4.3. The Sustainable Living Lab approach offers fundamental sustainability-oriented research infrastructure, in which relevant actors are actively integrated into the development, design and testing of new PSS aiming for the transition of our sociotechnical regime towards sustainability. SLL use a three-phase-model as their methodological framework, a description of which is also provided in Sect. 4.3. The actor integrated innovation process is described in a case study from Germany dealing with one of the most relevant areas of needs: heating and airing. It shows a high potential of social innovation for sustainable development. This could foster a more human need oriented and low investment technical development of low-resource SPSS. (see Sects. 4.4 and 4.5). The chapter concludes with an outlook (Sect. 4.6).

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Footnotes
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Evolutionary economics is a part of economics that is inspired by evolutionary biology. Much like mainstream economics it stresses complex interdependencies, competition, growth, structural change, and resource constraints but differs in the approaches which are used to analyze these phenomena (Friedmann 1998).
 
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Assumptions for average households: Gas heating, 70 m2 living space with a heating energy demand of 100 kWh/m2/a and emissions of 0.2744 kg CO2-equiv. per kWh as well as costs of 6.52 Euro CT/kWh.
 
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Metadata
Title
Green Economy as a Framework for Product-Service Systems Development: The Role of Sustainable Living Labs
Authors
Carolin Baedeker
Christa Liedtke
Maria Jolanta Welfens
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Living Labs

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-33526-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-33527-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33527-8_4

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