The future of eco-labelling : making environmental product information systems effective / edited by Frieder Rubik and Paolo Frankl.

"Eco-labelling is one of the key tools used by policy-makers in many parts of the world to encourage more sustainable production and consumption. By providing environmental information on products and services, eco-labels address both business users and consumers and range from mandatory approaches, such as required product declarations, to voluntary approaches, such as national eco-labels...'The future of eco-labelling' plots a course for policy-makers to address some of the historic problems with eco-labelling, to learn what works and what doesn't and to move forward with schemes that can make a real difference to sustainable production and consumption" -- Book jacket.

Ch. 1. Introduction / Frieder Rubik -- Ch. 2. Background : theoretical contributions, eco-labels and environmental policy / Eivind Sto, Pal Strandbakken, Dirk Scheer and Frieder Rubik -- Ch. 3. Environmental product information schemes : an overview / Dirk Scheer and Frieder Rubik -- Ch. 4. Eco-labels and consumers / Eivind Sto and Pal Strandbakken -- Ch. 5. Case study : washing machines / Frieder Rubik -- Ch. 6. Case study : tissue paper and copying paper / Paolo Frankl and Lucia Pietroni -- Ch. 7. Case study : tourist accommodation / Silvia Ayuso, Pere Fullana and Eloi Montcada -- Ch. 8. Conclusions / Paolo Frankl, Lucia Pietroni, Eloi Montcada and Frieder Rubik -- Ch. 9. Recommendations / Paolo Frankl, Lucia Pietroni, Dirk Scheer, Frieder Rubik, Eivind Sto and Eloi Montcada.

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