Sustainable Product-Service Systems Between Strategic Design and Tra
This book investigates the potential contribution that a strategic design approach can make to stimulating and supporting the societal embedding of sustainable PSSs (product-service systems). A new strategic design role thus emerges; a role in which the i
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Fabrizio Ceschin
Sustainable Product-Service Systems Between Strategic Design and Transition Studies
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology PoliMI SpringerBriefs
Editorial Board Barbara Pernici Stefano Della Torre Bianca M. Colosimo Tiziano Faravelli Roberto Paolucci Silvia Piardi
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Fabrizio Ceschin
Sustainable Product-Service Systems Between Strategic Design and Transition Studies
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Fabrizio Ceschin School of Engineering and Design Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex UK
ISSN 2282-2577 ISBN 978-3-319-03794-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03795-0
ISSN 2282-2585 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-03795-0 (eBook)
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Foreword
A New Strategic Design Research Frontier for Sustainability It is a shared opinion that Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. These offer models have been studied since the end of the 1990s as a win–win one and remarkable advances have been achieved both in knowledge-base and in know-how (methods and tools). However, the application of sustainab
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