Focuses on integrated product policy (IPP), which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life cycle. This book presents perspectives from policy-makers, researchers, consultancies, business, environmental...
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EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Learning Center, Standort Wiesbaden, Fachbibliothek Rechtswissenschaften
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Focuses on integrated product policy (IPP), which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life cycle. This book presents perspectives from policy-makers, researchers, consultancies, business, environmental and consumer associations, on how to conceptualize, institutionalize and implement IPP. Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Governance towards sustainability: meeting the unsustainable production and consumption challenge -- Part I. The governance approach of integrated product policy -- 1 From government to governance: political steering in modern societies -- 2 Patterns and key issues of environmental governance: what's new? -- 3 Environmental governance and integrated product policy -- Part II. Integrated product policy in practice: varieties of multi-level governance -- 4 The European Commission's Communication 'Integrated Product Policy: Building on Environmental Life-Cycle Thinking' -- 5 Promoting sustainable consumption and production at the international level: taking a life-cycle approach -- 6 Integrated product policy in Sweden -- 7 Integrated product policy in Denmark: new patterns of environmental governance? -- 8 Integrated product policy: the product-related part of the Swiss government's strategy for sustainable development -- 9 Integrated product policy as a tool in environmental protection: the Bavarian perspective -- 10 The IPP concept: some thoughts and comments -- 11 Integrated product policy: practices in Europe -- Part III. Shaping a policy mix: understanding the challenge -- 12 Integrated product policy and governance: a necessary symbiosis -- 13 Integrated product policy in the paper chain -- 14 Extended producer responsibility policies in the United States and Canada: history and status -- 15 Extended producer responsibility as a driver for product chain improvement -- 16 The implementation of integrated product policy in southern Italy: the role of community structural funds -- Part IV. Getting stakeholders involved: product innovation along the value chain.
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pt. 1. The governance approach of integrated product policy -- pt. 2. Integrated product policy in practice : varieties of multi-level governance -- pt. 3. Shaping a policy mix : understanding the challenge -- pt. 4. Getting stakeholders involved : product innovation along the value chain.
