Socrative Q&A (Mock Exam, 28Oct) Flashcards
what is meant by sustainable development?
A social and productive development is sustainable if it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, by promoting social equity and inclusion, environmental protection, and economic prosperity
Which is the quality/type of change needed for a sustainable development?
The change must be radical, and widely diffused, by promoting system innovation plausible and attractive
What are the main characteristics of a use-oriented S.PSS?
A company/organization (alliance of companies/organizations) provides access to products, tools, opportunities enabling customers to get their “satisfaction.” The customer pays only for the use of the product(s).
What is meant by (definition of) Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS) Innovation?
An offer model providing an integrated mix of products and services that are together able to fulfil a particular “unit of satisfaction,” where the ownership of the product(s) and/or it’s life cycle services cost/responsibilities remain by the provider(s), so that the economic interest of the provider(s) continuously seeks environmentally and/or socioethically beneficial new solutions
What happens when an S.PSS provider is offering the products retaining the ownership and/or offering all-inclusive the product with its maintenance, repair and upgrade being paid per unit of satisfaction?
The LONGER the product last, the LESS costs the of pre-production, production, distribution and disposal
What happens when a S.PSS provider is selling all-inclusive the access to products and the resources it consumes in use, with payment based on unit of satisfaction (product’s ownership by the producer/provider)?
The HIGHER the products resource efficiency in the use phase, the HIGHER the profit (payment minus the costs of resources)
What happens when the S.PSS provider is selling all-inclusive the product with its end-of-life treatments?
The MORE the materials are recycles and/or the energy is recovered, the MORe are the avoided costs of landfilling and the costs to purchase of new primary material, energy, or compost
When a S.PSS become more accessible to low- and middle-income contexts (peoples and oranizations)?
When the provider is selling to customer the access rather than the product/equipment ownership
When a S.PSS avoid interruption of product/equipment use in low- and middle-income contexts (peoples and organizations)?
When the provider is offering to customer the product/equipment with all-inclusive running costs
What is meant by (definition of) System Design for Sustainability?
The design of the system of products and services that are together able to fulfil a particular customer demand (to deliver a “unit of satisfaction”), based on the design of innovative interactions between the stakeholders of the value production system (satisfaction system), where the ownership of the product(s) and/or of the life cycle service’s costs/responsibilities remain by the provider(s), so that the same provider(s), for economic interest, continuously seek(s) environmentally and/or socioethically beneficial new solutions
Which are the main system design for sustainability approaches?
- Satisfaction-System
- Stakeholder Configuration
- System Sustainability
Indicate to which S.PSS design strategy the following guidelines belong to (msds method):
- complement product or infrastructure with services for their maintenance, reparability, substitution;
- complement product or infrastructure with services for their technological upgradeability;
- complement existing product or infrastructure with services that increase/enable their aesthetical or cultural upgradeability;
- complement product or infrastructure with services that increase their re-configurability (adaptation in new location);
- offer shared use services for products or infrastructures; offer service delivery platform for product sharing/reuse/second hand selling.
System Life Optimisation
Indicate to which s.pss design strategy the following guidelines belong to (msds method):
1. offer the access rather than mere product ownership to extend the access even to low-income final users;
2. complement the products offer with the all-inclusive running costs (e.g. maintenance, repairs, upgrade, etc.) to avoid their interruption of use for low-income final user;
3. develop products or services that are accessible for free or at a cost that can be afforded even by low-income people;
4. diversify the offer and include options with higher and lower costs so that the access can be extended;
5. develop systems with shared with economic property to increase their accessibility;
6. develop systems which promote labor services with equitable access/exchange;
7. develop systems e.g cooperatives) which involve product sharing and cost reductions;
8. develop systems which allow easier access to credit (for companies); involve and improve the conditions for weaker social strata;
9. involve and improve the conditions of marginalised persons offering them qualifying jobs which enhance their competences;
10. involve and facilitate introducing foreigners into the social context/space
Favor and integrate low-income, weaker and marginalized
What is meant by (definition of) decentralized economy production unit (lens, 2021)?
Small-scale production units that deliver their goods and services via light distribution networks, directly to customers, whether individuals, entrepreneurs, or other organisations/institutions, increasing customers control on essential activities. Could be standalone or connected to each other to share various forms of goods and services
What are the main distributed economies potential environmental benefits?
Make local DE stakeholder directly interested to safeguard the environmental and the resources availability of the context in which they live/work, by fostering; reduce overall goods distribution
