Carl Dalhammar
Senior lecturer
Futures of Fixing : Exploring the life of product users in circular economy repair society scenarios
Author
Summary, in English
A Circular Economy (CE) constitutes one pathway towards realising sustainable productionand consumption. Here, the repair of broken products (compared to replacement) consti-tutes an important strategy to keep products in the economy for longer, thereby reducingwaste, as well as the need to extract resources and emit pollution in the manufacture of areplacement product. In today’s world, repair does not necessarily constitute the naturalresponse to product breakage. However, increasing legislative efforts and grassroots move-ments are attempting to change that and make repair accessible, affordable and culturallyacceptable. The question is what such a society – where repair is normalised – would be like.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- LTH Profile Area: Circular Building Sector
- Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
Publishing year
2022
Language
English
Full text
Document type
Report
Publisher
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University
Topic
- Social and Economic Geography
Keywords
- repair
- circular economy
- future studies
Status
Published
Project
- Creating a repair society to advance the Circular Economy – policies, networks and people
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-87357-81-7