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  • Research Article   
  • Innov Ener Res 2017, Vol 6(1): 158
  • DOI: 10.4172/2576-1463.1000158

User-integrated Innovations in Urban Areas for a Transition towards Sustainability

Baedeker C1, Liedtke C1,2 and Kühlert M1*
1Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, , 42103, Wuppertal, Germany
2Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany
*Corresponding Author : Kühlert M, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Döppersberg 19, 42103, Wuppertal, Germany, Tel: +4902022492-175, Fax: +4902022492-138, Email: markus.kuehlert@wupperinst.org

Received Date: May 13, 2017 / Accepted Date: May 22, 2017 / Published Date: Jun 06, 2017

Abstract

A continuing trend of global urbanization leads to a geographical concentration of population and social activities that causes a regional compression of concomitant resource and energy consumption. This paper argues that a Sustainable Living Lab infrastructure (SusLab) in urban areas facilitates a systematic integration of user’s consideration in the design and development of Product-Service Systems (PSS) that enables changes of daily routines in favor of urban wealth development and conservation of ecosystem services. The authors build on the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Model of the Wuppertal Institute that provides a theoretical framework of sociotechnical rearrangements towards urban sustainability transition. Therefore, a reconfiguration of social practices and PSS in a desired direction according to social, ecological and economic concerns is reconsidered on the micro level in line with efficiency, consistency, and sufficiency strategies. The authors introduce an assessment framework for urban sustainable development and illustrate multifarious concepts of PSS that are aiming to decouple wealth development from resource and energy consumption in urban areas.

Keywords: Sustainable consumption and production (SCP); Urban sustainability transition; Product-service systems (PSS); Sustainability innovation; Sustainability strategies; Living labs; Sus labs

Citation: Baedeker C, Liedtke C, Kühlert M (2017) User-integrated Innovations in Urban Areas for a Transition towards Sustainability. Innov Ener Res 6: 158. Doi: 10.4172/2576-1463.1000158

Copyright: © 2017 Baedeker C, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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