Focuses on integrated product policy (IPP), which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life cycle. This book presents perspectives from policy-makers, researchers, consultancies, business, environmental and consumer associations, on how to...

Textiles and garment lifetimes / Kirsi Niinimäki -- Designing for (extended) product and material lifetimes / Kirsi Niinimäki -- Fashion designers leading the way to extend textile lifetimes in public-private enterprises / Ulla Raebuild and Vibeke Riisberg -- I like it because it's been worn...

This paper analyses the fundamental forces involved in the evolution of the telecommunications industry. It is suggested that there are five major forces that together drive the evolution of this industry: specialisation, competition, financial markets. endogenous consumer demand and permeable...

We build a two country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous and slow diffusion of technologies from the developed to the developing country, and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI flows. The model is able to...