Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. Ho...
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| author | Jay S. Golden K. J. Dooley J. M. Anderies B. H. Thompson G. Gereffi L Pratson |
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| description | There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, negative unintended consequences are likely to occur. Thus, we propose a social-ecological systems approach to policy making concerning product sustainability that will lead to more rapid and meaningful progress toward improving the environmental and social impacts of consumer products. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c64b432321684cfe889517e10b603da42022-12-21T21:30:37ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872010-09-01153810.5751/ES-03466-1503083466Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of EcolabelingJay S. Golden0K. J. Dooley1J. M. Anderies2B. H. Thompson3G. Gereffi4L Pratson5Nicholas School of the Environment and Nicholas Institute, Duke University Durham, North Carolina.Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State UniversitySchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State UniversityWoods Institute for the EnvironmentCenter on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness, Duke UniversityEnergy and Environment Program, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke UniversityThere is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, negative unintended consequences are likely to occur. Thus, we propose a social-ecological systems approach to policy making concerning product sustainability that will lead to more rapid and meaningful progress toward improving the environmental and social impacts of consumer products.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art8/consumer productsecolabelingsustainable indexingsustainability |
| spellingShingle | Jay S. Golden K. J. Dooley J. M. Anderies B. H. Thompson G. Gereffi L Pratson Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling Ecology and Society consumer products ecolabeling sustainable indexing sustainability |
| title | Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling |
| title_full | Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling |
| title_short | Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling |
| title_sort | sustainable product indexing navigating the challenge of ecolabeling |
| topic | consumer products ecolabeling sustainable indexing sustainability |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art8/ |
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