Services and the Green Economy
Editors: Jones, A., Ström, P., Hermelin, B., Rusten, G. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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Services and the Green Economy addresses a significant gap in the knowledge and understanding of sustainable economic development. Bringing together a range of expert contributions the book analyses the role of services and service industries in the transition to a greener economy. Framed by an approach within environmental economic geography, chapters written by leading researchers from a range of disciplines explore how service industries, service firms and service activities are at heart of green economic processes. Adopting a global perspective, it includes research from the US, Europe, South America and Japan, providing a detailed insight into how the crucial role of service industry activity has often been ignored in current understandings of a green economic transition.
- About the authors
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Andrew Jones is Professor of Economic Geography and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London, and was previously Head of Geography, Environment and Development at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of five previous books including Management Consultancy and Banking in an Era of Globalization (2003), The Economic Geography of the UK (edited with Neil Coe) and Globalization: Key Thinkers (2010)
Patrik Ström is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Centre for International Business Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was previously the Staffan Helmfrid Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden.
Brita Hermelin is Professor of Human Geography and research lead at the Centre for Municipality studies at Linköping University, Sweden. She has recently been the research lead for a project at Stockholm University on globalization of services and is currently leading a research project at Linköping University on cross sector interactions for regional development.
Grete Rusten is Professor of Economic Geography at University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on firm strategies, location, industrial and regional development, the service economy, industrial design, innovations and the green economy.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Services and the Green Economy
Pages 1-22
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Green Services Development: Aspects of Local Policy and Cross-Sector Interactions
Pages 25-49
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The Structure, Strategy and Geography of Green Certification Services
Pages 51-73
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Remanufacturing as an Enabler for Green Service Models
Pages 75-98
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The Transformative Roles of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Developing Green ICT: Evidence from Gothenburg, Sweden
Pages 99-124
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Services and the Green Economy
- Editors
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- Andrew Jones
- Patrik Ström
- Brita Hermelin
- Grete Rusten
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-52710-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-52710-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-52708-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 326
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
- Topics
