Prosumption for sustainable consumption and its implications for sustainable consumption governance

Lehner, Matthias

doi:10.4337/9781788117814.00016

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“…Prosumption ties production and consumption together by arguing for consumers' active rather than passive participation in producing, maintaining, and repairing products. 51 Lang et al 52 propose six distinctive types of prosumption through: Do it Yourself (DIY), Self-service, Customisation, Collaboration, Monetisation, Economic. Amongst which, the rst four are particularly aligned with the CE strategies and systemic change.…”

Section: Circular Economy As An Alternative Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The review of literature discussed the concept of "prosumption" where consumers become producers. 93 This study proposes a re-structuring of the urban F&T networks based on this concept (see table 5), connecting in particular the networks of Production, Consumption and End-of-Consumption. This shall reshape mindsets, lifestyles, cultures, common practices and strategies to handle unwanted materials, policies and politics of waste, voluntary or mandatory schemes.…”

Section: Economic Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cities as a threshold to Circularity; a Case Study on Urban Fashion and Textile Networks

Samie

2024

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The Circular Economy (CE) counters linearity by optimising resource consumption, a concept applied in the Fashion and Textile (F&T) industry for decades. However, F&T systems persist as linear. This study identifies two research gaps: the underexplored mesoscopic context linking micro to macro F&T systems and the absence of a theoretical approach to comprehend F&T complexities. It employs a network-based theoretical approach, utilising Actor-Network Theory, lifecycle thinking, and CE concepts to investigate how the city functions as a linking mesoscopic context to enact CE in F&T systems. Conducting a case study in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, through 19 semi-structured interviews, this study identifies seven key urban F&T networks shaping unwanted textile flows: Production, Consumption, End-of-Consumption, Domestic Reuse, Domestic Recycling, Exports, and Landfill. Recommendations for reshaping these flows and promoting CE include alternative urban F&T networks of Prosumption, Expanded Domestic Reuse, Expanded Domestic Recycling, Shrunk Exports, and Recover. This study concludes emphasising the boundaries of a city, offers a tangible way to harmonise the F&T systems on micro to macro scales and finds the connection between the place and practice pivotal in systemic transition.

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Section: Circular Economy As An Alternative Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cities as a threshold to Circularity; a Case Study on Urban Fashion and Textile Networks

Samie

2024

Preprint

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“…However, the industrial revolution in the past century has gradually replaced such sufficiency-based lifestyles with new ways of (over)consumption, characterized by exchangeability, replaceability, and throwing away. Some of the reasons for this shift were increase in productivity of industrial processes, and an increased focus on the marketing of products [9]. These not only delinked the producer and consumer of a product [14], but also cut their traditional relationships with a product established through its repair, maintenance, or up-gradation.…”

Section: Collaborative Production: Production Consumption and Presump...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, several cities in Europe are encouraging a circular economy by establishing product repair initiatives. Such initiatives have been studied in relation to providing technological solutions for degrowth [8]; reducing overall consumption through time expenditure in repairing [9]; improving resource efficiency by enhancing product longevity and spare parts recovery from urban waste flows [1]; and offering added social benefits by establishing social interaction, co-creation and mutual learning [1,10]. DIY repair studios could act as catalysts for reviving the repair culture in our societies by providing platforms for skills, tools, and resource exchanges.…”

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The Sustainability Potential of Upcycling

Singh

2022

Sustainability

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The upcycling trend has received renewed attention in the past few years due to growing concerns for the environment related to increased resource consumption and waste volumes. Indeed, cities across the world are supporting resource upcycling initiatives by establishing do-it-yourself (DIY) repair cafes and makerspaces as a means to transform societies towards sustainable development. However, the sustainability potential of such upcycling initiatives is unknown due to the lack of theoretical frameworks. This research aims to explore the direct and indirect social, economic, and environmental implications of upcycling activities at DIY bicycle repair studios. The main objectives of the study were to: (1) examine the upcycling activities in these studios that contribute to slowing and closing the material cycles, (2) explore the behavioral implications of the users of these maker spaces in the context of environmental sustainability, and (3) propose ways to evaluate the broad environmental impacts of the upcycling activities at these studios. The objectives were explored in three case studies—2 in Sweden (Cykelköket in Malmö and Bagarmossens Cykelköket in Stockholm) and 1 in Switzerland (Point Vélo, Lausanne). Semi-structured interviews, user surveys, and participant observation methods are employed to collect qualitative, and quantitative data to formulate a systemic exploration of major activities and socio-economic exchanges at these repair cafes. The study identified multiple social, economic, and environmental impacts of upcycling activities and represented them in causal loop diagrams. Based on this, a framework for evaluating and governing the overall sustainability potential of upcycling activities is proposed.

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“…The revolution in information and communication technology (ICT), everyday presence of the Internet and social media have caused an impressive change in access to knowledge [10] or to raw materials and professional equipment from across the globe [11] which blurred the distinction between producers and consumers [12]. For that reason, numerous grassroots movements and public actors established makerspaces and tool libraries to help such development [11,13]. Another great example gaining popularity concerns initiatives in energy production for household consumption [14] (p. 135), [15].…”

Section: The Problem and Origins Of Prosumption-theoretical Viewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavior of Online Prosumers in Organic Product Market as Determinant of Sustainable Consumption

Maciaszczyk

Kocot

2021

Sustainability

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The article focuses on the specificity of the behavior of modern prosumers in the market for organic products as a determinant of sustainable consumption. The strengthening of the pro-consumer relationship is made possible thanks to ongoing technological changes, especially the development of the Internet. It is thanks to our online activities and the opinions of other Internet users that pro-consumer decisions concerning online purchases are shaped. The article presents the results of empirical studies conducted in 2020 on a sample of 664 respondents using a questionnaire, while the survey results were developed using SPSS Statistics. Findings of research showed the willingness of consumers for prosumption and kind of behaviors that were most often among the research group. In the course of research proceedings, it was possible to define factors that dispose declarative prosumers for the purchase of organic products. Conducted analyses also allowed for building the model of the influence of individual characteristics of respondents on the index of prosumption.

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Prosumption for sustainable consumption and its implications for sustainable consumption governance

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Cities as a threshold to Circularity; a Case Study on Urban Fashion and Textile Networks

Cities as a threshold to Circularity; a Case Study on Urban Fashion and Textile Networks

The Sustainability Potential of Upcycling

Behavior of Online Prosumers in Organic Product Market as Determinant of Sustainable Consumption

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