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Microfoundations for Sustainable Growth with Eco-Intelligent Product Service-Arrangements

C. Liedtke,Johannes Buhl,Najine Ameli

Published 2013 in Sustainability

ABSTRACT

This paper argues that the contemporary growth paradigm needs to be reconsidered on a micro level of consumption and product service-systems. This becomes necessary since a dynamic link between macro strategies and micro implementation of sustainable growth is missing up to date. Therefore, mainstream sustainability strategies of efficiency and consistency are extended by sufficiency in order to integrate strategies for individual welfare within their social environment. Limits to and drivers for growth are revised and updated socially in terms of qualitative values, diminishing marginal utility or symbolic social distinction. We elaborate a definition of sustainable growth that fosters individual welfare by enhancing social enactment within the boundaries of environmental space. Shifting focus on social aspects in design fosters more sustainable production and consumption patterns while sustaining individual welfare. We derive latent indications for eco-intelligent product service-arrangements and evaluate to concepts by referring to introduced definitions and according indications. With doing so, we illustrate new pathways for the translation of sustainable growth and strategies into product service-systems.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Venue

    Sustainability

  • Publication date

    2013-03-19

  • Fields of study

    Economics, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3390/SU5031141
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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