Theme 3. Sustainable Consumption and Production - ERSCP-EMSU 2010 conference in Delft, the Netherlands

3A. Sustainable consumption and life styles
Consumers can play a pivotal role in fostering changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), for instance via political consumerism and purchasing decisions. However, they also face important constraints due to context, infrastructure, etc. The aim of this track is to analyse the role of consumers in the change to SCP and this role can be supported by (policy) instruments, taking into account lessons from, for instance, structuration theory, practice theory, etc.
3B. System innovation, innovation systems & complex governance
It is now widely accepted that changes towards SCP are a long-term process and that, in many cases, they need to be radical. Such ‘transitions’ or ‘system innovations’ towards sustainability cannot be managed via traditional means-end approaches, but need to be looked at from a complex system or complex governance perspective. This also means innovation systems and related innovation policies have to become sustainable in a way that they facilitate both system innovations and sustainable innovations in general. This track invites original conceptual and methodological contributions, as well as case study research into this matter.
3C. Domain-oriented case studies: foods, buildings, energy using products, mobility and clothing
Case studies involving changes towards SCP are an important methodological approach to understanding the governance of such changes. The domains that are mentioned are priorities from an environmental point of view. The aim of this track is to present original case studies in such domains, emphasizing issues such as scaling up, supportive policies, etc.
3D. Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and resource recovery
Industrial symbiosis draws its conceptual foundation from the ecological metaphor of biological symbiosis. Companies engaged in industrial symbiosis can be co-located in an eco-industrial park or distributed across a city or region. Industrial symbiosis offers potential environmental and economic efficiencies that have attracted policy and business interest across the world, both in terms of industrial transformation and of regional sustainability. In this area, resource recovery is also relevant and includes urban and landfill mining. This track invites state-of-the-art conceptual and methodological studies, as well as case studies.
3E. Sustainable consumption and production in developing countries
Introducing SCP in developing countries works fundamentally different as in developed countries. This track invites conceptual and case study contributions that build on concepts like bottom-of-the-pyramid business models, sustainable livelihood approaches and appropriate technology development