Thomas Lindhqvist
Senior lecturer
Extended Producer Responsibility in Cleaner Production: Policy Principle to Promote Environmental Improvements of Product Systems
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Summary, in English
The focus of the environmental policy-making has shifted noticeably during the last decade. From having played a fairly insignificant role in the 1980s and earlier, product-related environmental problems have attracted an ever-increasing interest from policy-makers, especially in industrialised countries in North-Western Europe. Considerable attention has been devoted to the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and today this concept is spread to most OECD countries and also outside this group of countries.
This dissertation shows how the concept was developed, presents a model for various types of responsibilities and defines the EPR concept as a policy principle for environmental improvements of products and product systems. Experiences from existing EPR systems are studied and complemented with an analysis of proposed system implementations. The results are combined with a model for how an EPR system can be developed in order to give the incentives for change to the relevant actors. Conclusions concerning how the details of EPR systems should be organised are presented, as well as a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages with involving various actors in the policy development process and the role of these actors in the implementation of the system.
This dissertation shows how the concept was developed, presents a model for various types of responsibilities and defines the EPR concept as a policy principle for environmental improvements of products and product systems. Experiences from existing EPR systems are studied and complemented with an analysis of proposed system implementations. The results are combined with a model for how an EPR system can be developed in order to give the incentives for change to the relevant actors. Conclusions concerning how the details of EPR systems should be organised are presented, as well as a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages with involving various actors in the policy development process and the role of these actors in the implementation of the system.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2000
Language
English
Publication/Series
IIIEE dissertations
Volume
2000:2
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
IIIEE, Lund University
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- Environmental technology
- kontroll av utsläpp
- pollution control
- Miljöteknik
- EPR Extended Producer Responsibility Product Environment Policy Recycling
- Industriell ekonomi
- Commercial and industrial economics
Status
Published
Supervisor
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1402-3016
- ISBN: 91-88902-13-7
- ISRN-LUTMDN/THME-00/1004-SE
Defence date
5 May 2000
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
The Aula International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Opponent
- Han Brezet (Prof.)