Understanding Planned Obsolescence

Author : Kamila Pope
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749478063

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Understanding Planned Obsolescence by Kamila Pope Pdf

Planned obsolescence is a strategy used to make products obsolete, leading to their premature replacement. The result is the over-exploitation of natural resources, increased waste and detrimental social impacts. It is a known practice in consumer electronics and affects other industries as they put profit before consequence. A ground-breaking new book, Understanding Planned Obsolescence looks at the causes, cost and impact of planned obsolescence. It considers the legal and economic frameworks to overcome the practice and how to mitigate its effects. It also unearths new patterns of production and consumption highlighting more sustainable development models. Including a wide range of case studies from Europe, USA and South America, Understanding Planned Obsolescence is a vital step forward for the future of business and academia alike. Online resources now available include chapter-by-chapter lecturer slides.

Author : Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780814728963

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Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Pdf

Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changeso especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimediaonecessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin.Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of workingohow they research, write, and reviewowhile administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain vibrant and relevant in the digital future.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780674043756

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Made to Break by Giles Slade Pdf

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Author : Bjoern Bartels,Ulrich Ermel,Peter Sandborn,Michael G. Pecht
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118275467

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Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence by Bjoern Bartels,Ulrich Ermel,Peter Sandborn,Michael G. Pecht Pdf

Supply chains for electronic products are primarily driven by consumer electronics. Every year new mobile phones, computers and gaming consoles are introduced, driving the continued applicability of Moore's law. The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better and cheaper products day by day. But what happens to long-field life products like airplanes or ships, which need the same components for decades? How do electronic and also non-electronic systems that need to be manufactured and supported of decades manage to continue operation using parts that were available for a few years at most? This book attempts to answer these questions. This is the only book on the market that covers obsolescence forecasting methodologies, including forecasting tactics for hardware and software that enable cost-effective proactive product life-cycle management. This book describes how to implement a comprehensive obsolescence management system within diverse companies. Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence is a must-have work for all professionals in product/project management, sustainment engineering and purchasing.

Author : Daniel M. Abramson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226313450

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Obsolescence by Daniel M. Abramson Pdf

Things fall apart. But in his innovative, wide-ranging, and well-illustrated book, Daniel Abramson investigates the American definition of what falling apart entails. We build new buildings partly in response to demand, but even more because we believe that existing buildings are slowly becoming obsolete and need to be replaced. Abramson shows that our idea of obsolescence is a product of our tax code, which was shaped by lobbying from building interests who benefit from the idea that buildings depreciate and need to be replaced. The belief in depreciation is not held worldwide which helps explain why preservation movements struggle more in America than elsewhere. Abramson s tour of our idea of obsolescence culminates in an assessment of recent tropes of sustainability, which struggle to cultivate the idea that the greenest building is the one that already exists."

Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1935439375

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The Waste Makers by Vance Packard Pdf

A pioneering work from the 1960s about how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods degraded the environmental, financial and spiritual character of western society. It exposed the increasing commercialisation of American life, when people bought things they didn't need or want. It also highlighted the concept of planned obsolescence, the 'death date' built into products. This prescient study predicted the rise of consumer culture and features an introduction by bestselling author Bill McKibben.

Author : Baporikar, Neeta
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799851172

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Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Development and Opportunities in Circular Economy by Baporikar, Neeta Pdf

With the need for sustainability, a focus on developing an economic system that aims at minimizing waste, commonly referred to as the circular economy, is emerging. Circular economy and studies related to it have gained worldwide attention, as it seems to be an effective alternative economic system. Naturally, the circular economy will impact enterprises and will shift how entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurial opportunities are perceived, developed, and resourced. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Development and Opportunities in Circular Economy is a collection of pioneering research that advances the understanding of entrepreneurship development, identifies the opportunities, and manages the entrepreneurship development, policies, and programs in order to further a circular economy. In addition to entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurial opportunities, the book will cover and discuss a number of other factors necessary for a successful transformation, such as entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurship and change, and entrepreneurship education. While highlighting topics including consumer consumption, knowledge management, and linear economics, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, small business owners, managers, consultants, organization development specialists, policymakers, researchers, industry experts, academicians, and students.

Author : Hanif Kara,Leire Asensio-Villoria,Andreas Georgoulias
Publisher : Actar
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 194515005X

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Architecture and Waste by Hanif Kara,Leire Asensio-Villoria,Andreas Georgoulias Pdf

Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. Through comparing the well-established waste-to-energy industries in Sweden with less established engagements in the northeast of the United States, opportunities and lessons are revealed. This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. Architects have a role to play in integrating waste-to-energy plants physically and programmatically within their urban or suburban contexts, as well as potentially lessening the generally negative perception of energy recovery plants.

Author : C.A. Bakker,R. Mugge
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781614998204

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PLATE: Product Lifetimes And The Environment by C.A. Bakker,R. Mugge Pdf

Product lifetimes are critical for the circular economy, resource efficiency, waste reduction and low carbon strategies for sustainability, and are therefore of interest to academics from many different disciplines as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other stakeholders. The challenges related to product lifetimes must be tackled from multiple perspectives, making the sharing of knowledge and expertise from different disciplines particularly important. This book presents papers from the second Product Lifetime and the Environment (PLATE) conference, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in November 2017. The conference originated from the desire to bring together academic researchers working in the field of sustainability to benefit from each other’s knowledge and further advance the field. The book includes the 88 full papers delivered at the conference, grouped according to the following 7 conference themes: design for product longevity; product lifetime optimization; cultural perspectives on the throwaway society; circular economy and product lifetimes; business opportunities, economic implications and marketing strategies; consumer influences on product lifetimes; and policy, regulation and legislation. The book will be of interest to all those concerned with sustainable consumption, circular economy and resource efficiency.

Author : Ingo Venzke,Kevin Jon Heller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192652904

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Contingency in International Law by Ingo Venzke,Kevin Jon Heller Pdf

This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.

Author : Francisco Cavas-Martínez,Benoit Eynard,Francisco J. Fernández Cañavate,Daniel G. Fernández-Pacheco,Paz Morer,Vincenzo Nigrelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030123468

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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing II by Francisco Cavas-Martínez,Benoit Eynard,Francisco J. Fernández Cañavate,Daniel G. Fernández-Pacheco,Paz Morer,Vincenzo Nigrelli Pdf

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in medicine and education; representation techniques; and nautical, aeronautics and aerospace design and modeling. The book is divided into six main sections, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here will not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research directions, advanced applications of the methods discussed, and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

Author : Tara Button
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780399582516

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A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button Pdf

A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime. With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we’ve been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Button, founder of BuyMeOnce, is at the forefront of the global movement to change the way we shop and live forever. Tara advocates a life of mindful buying that celebrates what lasts, giving you exercises that help you curb impulses, ignore trends, and discover your true style. Once a shopaholic herself, her groundbreaking mindful curation method reveals the amazing benefits of buying for life and will help you: • Spot the tricks that make you overspend • De-clutter your home • Find the products that serve you best • Rediscover the art of keeping and caring for things • Find happiness, success, and self-worth, beyond buying

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Building Research Board,Committee on Facility Design to Minimize Premature Obsolescence
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309048422

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Fourth Dimension in Building by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Building Research Board,Committee on Facility Design to Minimize Premature Obsolescence Pdf

Public facilities are valuable assets that can provide decades of high quality of service if they are effectively utilized. Despite effective planning, design, and management, sometimes users or owners change and have requirements different from those that the facility was initially intended to fulfill. In addition, the technologies sometimes change, making facilities obsolete before they have worn out or otherwise failed. This book explores the meaning of obsolescence as the term applies to buildings. It discusses the functional, economic, technological, social, legal, political, and cultural factors that can influence when obsolescence will occur and considers what design professional and building owners and users can do to delay and minimize the costs of obsolescence. The analyses apply to all buildings, but public facilities are given added attention because of their special management problems.

Author : Péter Érdi,Zsuzsa Szvetelszky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030989088

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Repair by Péter Érdi,Zsuzsa Szvetelszky Pdf

This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology. By resources, the authors mean objects, such as cell phones and cars, and human resources, such as family members, friends, and the small and large communities they belong to. As we all face the "replace or repair" dichotomy, readers will understand how to repair themselves, their relationships, and communities, accept the "new normal," and contribute to repairing the world. The book is offered to Zoomers, growing up in a world where it seems everything is falling apart; people in their 30s and 40s, who are thinking about how to live a fulfilling life; people from the Boomers generation, who are thinking back on life and how to repair relationships. The Reader will enjoy the intellectual adventure of connecting the natural and social worlds and understanding the transition's pathways from a "throwaway society" to a "repair society.

Author : Roy Sheldon,Egmont Arens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UCAL:$B18868

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Consumer Engineering by Roy Sheldon,Egmont Arens Pdf