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Governance of Integrated Product Policy: In Search of Sustainable Production and Consumption

Governance of Integrated Product Policy: In Search of Sustainable Production and Consumption

Scheer, Dirk
Rubik, Frieder

Hardcover

Business GeneralInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1874719322
ISBN13: 9781874719328
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 1 2006
Pages: 377
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

European policy patterns are in a state of transformation. New governance models are shifting power away from states and toward the involvement of all stakeholders and the idea of shared responsibility. It's a move from command and control to push and pull.

What's in this new approach for the environment? This book provides a detailed analysis of the example of integrated product policy (IPP) which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life-cycle. All products cause environmental degradation in some way, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal. The life-cycle of a product is often long and complicated. It covers all the areas from the extraction of natural resources, through their design, manufacture, assembly, marketing, distribution, sale and use to their eventual disposal as waste. At the same time it also involves many different actors such as designers, manufacturers, marketers, retailers and consumers. IPP attempts to systematically stimulate each phase of this complicated chain to improve its environmental performance. With the involvement of so many different products and actors there cannot be one simple policy measure for everything. Instead, IPP employs a whole variety of tools - both voluntary and mandatory - which are used to achieve identified objectives. These include economic instruments, the phase-out of dangerous materials, voluntary agreements, eco-labelling and product design guidelines.

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