| Friday, June 06, 2003 - 02:42 pm Any thoughts or ideas on PSS
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| Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 04:26 pm Hello, I am currently conducting some research on Product Service Systems (PSS) for my Masters dissertation at the University of Leeds in the UK. The topic I am doing on PSS looks at how to enable a better implementation of the new programmes by including a strong social component in terms of the benefits of participatory approaches and the importance of including social sustainability in sustainable consumption programmes. What I have been doing is working with some community initiatives in the UK, where citizens have organized economic arrangements that involve a lot of sharing, lending, and pooling of resources as well as socialization in terms of cultural shifts in the ideas and coordination of consumption. I have interviewed and talked to people involved in these organizations all over the UK and I am drawing out some ideas and principles that could be implemented to the development of PSS programmes. At the same time I have been tracking down companies implementing the ideas of PSS and asking them some questions in order to develop some comparison criteria with citizen initiatives and also to make more appropriate evaluations of the implementation process. Another method of research I am using, which I thought would be very helpful, is to get some feedback from other researchers and people involved in the development of these type of programmes. For this purpose, I have formulated a brief questionnaire, which I am now trying to send out. I would greatly appreciate your help and time if you can answer the questions and if you have any other contacts of people working on PSS to whom I could send my questionnaire. The link is: http://www.createsurvey.com/cgi-bin/pollfrm?s=9616&magic=SCL1sPbRQiLVBYo If youhave any questions or comments please contact me at lec2tb@leeds.ac.uk
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