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Carl Dalhammar

Carl Dalhammar

Senior lecturer

Carl Dalhammar

Futures of Fixing : Exploring the life of product users in circular economy repair society scenarios

Author

  • Sahra Svensson-Höglund
  • Minna Laurell Thorslund
  • Jessika Luth Richter
  • Anna Richter Olsson
  • Charlotte Louise Jensen
  • Jaco Quist
  • Jennifer Russell
  • Carl Dalhammar

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

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