Servitization in Support of Sustainable Cities: What Are Steel’s Contributions and Challenges?
| Autor: | Julian T. M. Pinto, Manuel E. Morales, Mariia Fedoruk, Marina Kovaleva, Arnaud Diemer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science (UI), Iðnaðarverkfræði-, vélaverkfræði- og tölvunarfræðideild (HÍ), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Environmental effects of industries and plants
Sjálfbærni TJ807-830 sustainable urban metabolism Sustainable urban metabolism TD194-195 Renewable energy sources circles of sustainability Environmental sciences Circles of sustainability sustainable cities Steel GE1-350 steel Servitization Borgir Sustainable cities servitization |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 3 Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 3, p 855 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11030855 |
| Popis: | Publisher's version (útgefin grein) In the pursuit of eco-efficiency, resilience, and self-sufficiency, sustainable cities focus on long-term environmental goals instead of only short-term economic ones. To do so, many of them rely on servitization, the practice of replacing tangible solutions for intangible ones. Considering steel's wide range of applications and its pervasive presence, this article's goal was twofold: Not only to understand how servitization helps sustainable cities, but also the contributions and challenges of the steel present in service-providing. To do so, the criteria of sustainable urban metabolism and circles of sustainability were used to analyze three case studies of servitization: energy, housing, and mobility. The results showed that servitization can provide significant benefits to sustainable cities, while also being able to substantially alter the supply-side dynamics of steelmaking by affecting, most notably, demand. This brought to light how important it is for steelmakers to pay close attention to the service-providing initiatives that may concern their clients and products. Nevertheless, further research is necessary to fully understand all of the effects that servitization can have on all of the commodities involved in its implementation. Funding: Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship Action in Excellent Research, European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program Grant Agreement no. 675153. Acknowledgments: This article is part of a series of publications aimed at helping to improve environmentally-oriented policy- and decision-making in the European steel industry, focusing on sustainable resource management. It was developed with the support of experts from the “European Symposium on Sustainable Development”—held in Clermont-Ferrand (France)—and derives from AdaptEconII’s project #4, part of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program. |
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