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After Industrial Society: Service Society as Clean Society? Environmental Consequences of Increasing Service Interaction

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  • Christof Ellger
  • JOACHIM SCHEINER

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Whereas industrial society is known to be to a great extent responsible for the degradation of the environment, service society is assumed to be rather ‘clean’. There has, in fact, been a substantial reduction in material metabolism in industrial production in the developed countries. The increasing interaction intensity, however; which is characteristic for a service society, results in massive transport volumes and thus in other negative environmental impacts which to a large degree offset the advances in industrial production.

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  • Christof Ellger & JOACHIM SCHEINER, 1997. "After Industrial Society: Service Society as Clean Society? Environmental Consequences of Increasing Service Interaction," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 564-579, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:17:y:1997:i:4:p:564-579
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069700000035
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    1. Esposito, Piero & Patriarca, Fabrizio & Salvati, Luca, 2018. "Tertiarization and land use change: The case of Italy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 80-86.
    2. Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2018. "Services, service innovation and the ecological challenge," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), A Research Agenda for Service Innovation, chapter 2, pages 27-45, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Fix, Blair, 2019. "Dematerialization Through Services: Evaluating the Evidence," SocArXiv bw5gm, Center for Open Science.
    4. Blair Fix, 2019. "Dematerialization Through Services: Evaluating the Evidence," Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality, Springer, vol. 4(2), pages 1-17, June.
    5. Guarino, Raffaele & Corsi, Giulio & Muñoz-Ulecia, Enrique, 2023. "How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 484(C).
    6. Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2015. "Service innovation for sustainability: paths for greening through service innovation," Working Papers halshs-01188530, HAL.
    7. Davies, Terry & Konisky, David M., 2000. "Environmental Implications of the Foodservice and Food Retail Industries," Discussion Papers 10761, Resources for the Future.

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