Citation:
dos Santos , A , Vezzoli , C , García Parra , B , Molina Mata , S , Banerjee , S , Kohtala , C , Ceschin , F , Petrulaityte , A , Garcez Duarte , G , Dickie , I B , Balasubramanian , R & Xia , N 2021 , Distributed Economies . in C Vezzoli , B García Parra & C Kohtala (eds) , Designing Sustainability for All : The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering , Springer , Cham , pp. 23-50 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66300-1_2
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Abstract:
This chapter presents Distributed Economies (DE) as a promising model for locally-based sustainability. DE consist of small-scale value-adding units (e.g. manufacturing, energy generation, food production, water management, software development, knowledge generation) where there is a shift in the control of core activities towards the user/client.
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