System Innovation for Sustainability 3

Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Food and Agriculture
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-906093-24-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges" (SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is that innovation in SCP policy can be achieved only if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if business can profitably make the products and consumers are attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix. The publication in 2008 of System Innovation for Sustainability 1 was the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from all four communities. It examined what SCP is and what it could be, provided a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looked at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. System Innovation for Sustainability 3 is the second of three books of case studies covering respectively the three key consumption areas of mobility, food and agriculture, and energy use and housing – responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies – with the aim of stimulating, fostering or forcing change to SCP theory in practice. The availability of healthy food for all is a basic human need. Yet, primarily due to higher food prices, the overall number of undernourished people in the world increased from 923 million in 2007 to 963 million in 2008 – the vast majority of whom live in developing countries. Experts estimate that close to half of the human impact on the environment is directly or indirectly related to food production and consumption. Food production, distribution, consumption and disposal are important in terms of land and resource use, pollution and emissions, biodiversity and landscape design. Also of key importance are health issues and issues surrounding the satisfaction of citizens' basic needs: more than 200 million adults in the European Union are overweight or even obese due to unhealthy diets and too little exercise. Sustainability issues are now clearly on the agenda for food producers and market actors, politicians and regulators, as well as being increasingly important in the decisions consumers make about food. A large number and variety of efforts to stimulate sustainability have been instigated and numerous studies, research programmes and publications have addressed such issues. Agri-food issues have also been prominent in the evolving definition of what sustainability means. This book focuses largely on providing answers to the question of how food production and consumption systems can stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of our natural environment. But it also considers the challenges of food security and nutrition in the context of sustainability and a growing world population. The book first analyses the state of the art in sustainable agriculture and food production in Europe. Eleven case studies follow, examining issues such as food policy, greening mainstream agricultural systems, organic farming, farmers' markets, sustainable food networks, eco-labelling, consumer behaviour, slow food and fair trade. Finally, a concluding chapter summarises what has been learned by the 60-plus experts active in the SCORE! food project. In brief: bottom-up and top-down processes have to be linked, industrialised nations must reduce their meat consumption, and agriculture should become a multifunctional sustainable system not only producing food but also delivering other services such as energy and material production, CO2 storage and recreation – which would have the added benefit of improving farmers' socioeconomic situations. The System Innovation for Sustainability series is the fruit of the first major international research network on SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come. It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate on sustainable production and consumption from government, business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses and system innovators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tischner, Ursula

Stø, Eivind

Kjærnes, Unni

Tukker, Arnold

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. IntroductionUrsula Tischner, econcept, Germany, Eivind Stø and Unni Kjærnes, SIFO, Norway, and Arnold Tukker, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)2. Sustainable consumption and production in the agriculture and food domainUrsula Tischner, econcept, Germany and Unni Kjærnes, The National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway3. Facilitating a more sustainable food and farming sector in the UK*Paul Dewick and Chris Foster, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, UK and Steve Webster, Delta-innovation Ltd, UK4. Self-sufficiency or localisation? Sustainability and ambiguity in Britain's food policyTim Cooper, Nottingham Trent University, UK5. Transition towards sustainable consumption and production? The case of organic food in DenmarkMichael Søgaard Jørgensen, DTU Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark6. Socioeconomic aspects of farmers' markets in Sweden Helen Nilsson and Oksana Mont, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund, Sweden 7. Open Garden: a local organic producer–consumer network in Hungary, going through various levels of system innovation Edina Vadovics, Central European University, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, and GreenDependent Sustainable Solutions Association; Matthew Hayes, Institute for Environmental Management, Szent István University and Nyitott Kert Alapitvány 8. Slow Food: counteracting fast food and fast living Ingrid Kjørstad, National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO) 9. Sambazon: creating environmental and social value through marketing the açai berry; sustainable agro-forestry practices in the Brazilian Amazon Burcu Tunçer and Patrick Schroeder, UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Wuppertal, Germany 10. Fairtrade Max Havelaar Norway: the Norwegian labelling organisation for fair trade Ingri Osmundsvåg, National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway 11. Verified sustainable agriculture: a practical experience and a significant contribution to sustainable consumption and production Chris Wille and Joke Aerts, Rainforest Alliance Bernward Geier, Colabora 12. Life events as turning points for sustainable nutrition Martina Schäfer and Adina Herde, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany and Cordula Kropp, University of Applied Sciences, Germany 13. Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) of food: overall conclusions on SCP in the food and agriculture domain Ursula Tischner, econcept, Agency for Sustainable Design, Germany, Eivind Stø, National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway and Arnold Tukker, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands; Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Über Autor(innen)

Ursula Tischner, Eivind Stø, Unni Kjærnes, Arnold Tukker