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Author:   Tim Cooper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780566088087

ISBN 10:   0566088088
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Overview; 1: The Significance of Product Longevity; Part II: Design for Longevity; 2: Re-evaluating Obsolescence and Planning for It; 3: Subject/Object Relationships and Emotionally Durable Design; 4: Defying Obsolescence; 5: Understanding Replacement Behaviour and Exploring Design Solutions; 6: Adjusting Our Metabolism: Slowness and Nourishing Rituals of Delay in Anticipation of a Post-Consumer Age; 7: Durability, Function and Performance; Part III: Public Policy and Product Life-Spans; 8: Durability and the Law; 9: The Law on Guarantees and Repair Work; 10: Policies for Longevity; part IV: Marketing Longer Lasting Products; 11: Rethinking Marketing; 12: Marketing Durability; 13: Can Durability Provide a Strong Marketing Platform?; Part V: Product Use and Reuse; 14: Consumer Influences on Product Life-Spans; 15: Product Life Cycle Management Through IT; 16: There are Times and Places: Systems and Practices in the Domestic Processing and Reuse of Packaging; 17: Extending Product Life-Spans: Household Furniture and Appliance Reuse in the UK

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'...the book has been overwhelmingly successful in bringing out and presenting an issue that is of supreme importance in today's context. The readers would find this work immensely useful and thought provoking. It may also inspire bright minds to think afresh about marketing and set out to answer sticky research ssues in the Marketing theory. I recommend this book especially for Doctoral level students in Marketing.' - Himandri Roy Chaudhuri, VISION Journal

'...The book is composed of 17 chapters, most of which could easily be made into books in their own right...managers, especially marketing managers, should read this book...Those not up to speed need to catch up fast...' David Bishop, Journal of Product & Brand Management '...this volume is a very welcome addition to the ongoing design for sustainability debate. It brings a substantial amount of current research to the reader and offer a wide-ranging set of perspectives. It provides a compelling case for extending product use and it effectively covers the associated implications, barriers and opportunities. This volume ought to become a key reference resource for students, academics, politicians, manufacturers and marketing departments and, as such, has the potential to be a long-lasting product.' - The Design Journal '...the book has been overwhelmingly successful in bringing out and presenting an issue that is of supreme importance in today's context. The readers would find this work immensely useful and thought provoking. It may also inspire bright minds to think afresh about marketing and set out to answer sticky research issues in the Marketing theory. I recommend this book especially for Doctoral level students in Marketing.' - Himandri Roy Chaudhuri, VISION Journal 'This is the book we have all been waiting for. Why is it in our own best interests to have things that last? Why do we fail to design, produce and maintain longer-lasting products in the interests of global survival, climate change mitigation, and out of consideration for future generations? Tim Cooper's excellent collection of essays highlights in scholarly and practical ways how to enhance the life-span of vehicles, appliances, furniture, clothing and footwear. The essays supported by a project of the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council show how policies that focus on product longevity are crucial to future prosperity. They alert us to the danger of thinking that a lifestyle of consumption and throwaway is the way to run a successful economy. Clearly, times have moved on from recycling and waste management to novel ideas about design, marketing, waste reduction, stewardship, and legislation that promotes product longevity particularly in industrialised nations. Throwaway cultures need to be challenged through public policy, design and marketing strategies, consumer attitudes and behaviour, and socio-cultural norms. Here is a great push.' - Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS, President, European Academies Science Advisory Council. 'This thought provoking book provides designers and policy makers with a way of understanding the critical role that product longevity plays in sustainable development. Cooper has drawn together a fantastic collection of diverse essays from many of the leading thinkers in the field which demonstrate a range of different approaches to ensure that we can begin to move away from a throwaway society. This will be a valuable addition to the bookshelves of anyone who is serious about moving towards a more sustainable world.' - Professor Tracy Bhamra, Loughborough University 'Today's throwaway culture still needs to be challenged and this book does just that.' - Peter Doodes, Green Christian

Author Information

Tim Cooper is Professor of Sustainable Design and Consumption at Nottingham Trent University. After graduating from the University of Bath, he worked as an economist in the construction industry for over a decade before undertaking research at the New Economics Foundation, where he developed his interest in the life-span of consumer durables. He was awarded a PhD from Sheffield Hallam University, where he worked from 1995 until 2010 and established the Centre for Sustainable Consumption. Dr Cooper's current research interests are multidisciplinary, embracing design, consumer behaviour, public policy and environmental ethics. He has participated in several European research projects and in 2004 was awarded funding by the EPSRC to establish the Research Network on Product Life Spans, which he continues to manage. He has advised the Research Council of Norway, the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and the Belgium Federal Science Policy Office, and was Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Environment Committee for its enquiry Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products. Tim Cooper, Brian Burns, Jonathan Chapman, Miles Park, Nicole van Nes, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Walter Stahel., Cowan Ervine, Christian Twigg-Flesner, Ken Peattie, Kirsty Christer, Dorothy Mackenzie, Kenisha Garnett, Sian Evans, Matthew Simon, Janet Shipton, Tom Fisher, Anthony Curran.

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