Preventative environmental strategies in the service sector
(2000) In IIIEE dissertations 2000:3.- Abstract
- Preventative environmental approaches (e.g. Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention) have been successfully implemented in the manufacturing industry. They are, however, far from being fully adopted by all society actors. It has, for instance, not been fully embraced by the service sector. When this research project started, the initial question was whether it was possible to adopt experiences in using preventative environmental strategies from the manufacturing industry into the service sector, and what would distinguish their application from the manufacturing industry. This thesis shows that there are no indications that the fundamental principles of preventative environmental strategies should not be applicable to service companies... (More)
- Preventative environmental approaches (e.g. Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention) have been successfully implemented in the manufacturing industry. They are, however, far from being fully adopted by all society actors. It has, for instance, not been fully embraced by the service sector. When this research project started, the initial question was whether it was possible to adopt experiences in using preventative environmental strategies from the manufacturing industry into the service sector, and what would distinguish their application from the manufacturing industry. This thesis shows that there are no indications that the fundamental principles of preventative environmental strategies should not be applicable to service companies and organisations, as well. In fact, it seems that we can directly transfer much of the knowledge and experience from the manufacturing industry and apply it in service organisations, since most of the problems found are very similar to those of the manufacturing industry. The only major difference identified is that customers participate in the "production" of a service; that is, depending on how customers interact in the production, they directly determine the environmental performance of the service system. This also means that educating, "steering" and involving the customers become crucial issues for service management in improving environmental performance. (Less)
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Förebyggande miljöskyddslösningar har under flera år tillämpats med stor framgång i den tillverkande industrin. Den har dock används i mycket i liten omfattning i service sektorn. I takt med att tjänstesektorns ekonomiska betydelse ökat, har även miljöaspekten av ett ökat tjänsteutbud kommit i fokus. Denna avhandling förklarar hur förebyggande miljöskydd som ett strategiskt angreppssätt är tillämpligt på service sektorn, samt på vilket sätt den skiljer i tillämpning från den tillverkande industrin.
Avhandlingen visar att det till stora delar går att tillämpa förebyggande miljöskyddslösningar på ett liknande sätt i tjänstesektorn. Likheten är större än vad man tidigare har... (More) - Popular Abstract in Swedish
Förebyggande miljöskyddslösningar har under flera år tillämpats med stor framgång i den tillverkande industrin. Den har dock används i mycket i liten omfattning i service sektorn. I takt med att tjänstesektorns ekonomiska betydelse ökat, har även miljöaspekten av ett ökat tjänsteutbud kommit i fokus. Denna avhandling förklarar hur förebyggande miljöskydd som ett strategiskt angreppssätt är tillämpligt på service sektorn, samt på vilket sätt den skiljer i tillämpning från den tillverkande industrin.
Avhandlingen visar att det till stora delar går att tillämpa förebyggande miljöskyddslösningar på ett liknande sätt i tjänstesektorn. Likheten är större än vad man tidigare har antagit. Den avgörande skillnaden ligger i att kunden deltar i "produktionen" av tjänsten. Miljöpåverkan från en tjänst blir på så sätt en direkt följd av hur kunden aggerar. Tjänsteföretag måste därför lära sig från den tilllverkande industrin om hur man ska tillämpa förebyggande miljöskydd, samt utbilda och invovlera kunden för lösa miljöproblemen på ett effektivt sätt. (Less)
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- author
- Kisch, Peter LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Assoc. Prof. Geiser, Kenneth, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- organization
- publishing date
- 2000
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Miljöteknik, pollution control, Environmental technology, Service sector, Preventative environmental strategies, Cleaner production, Pollution prevention, kontroll av utsläpp, Commercial and industrial economics, Industriell ekonomi
- in
- IIIEE dissertations
- volume
- 2000:3
- pages
- 200 pages
- publisher
- IIIEE, Lund University
- defense location
- The Aula at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- defense date
- 2000-05-05 09:00:00
- external identifiers
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- other:ISRN: LUTMDN/THME-00/1005-SE
- ISSN
- 1402-3016
- ISBN
- 91-88902-14-5
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 6e5ae555-9035-4fea-bbd7-12e59899dcf3 (old id 19654)
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- 2016-04-01 15:47:05
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title = {{Preventative environmental strategies in the service sector}},
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