After Industrial Society: Service Society as Clean Society? Environmental Consequences of Increasing Service Interaction
Authors:
- Christof EllgerCEChristof Ellger
- Joachim ScheinerJoachim Scheiner
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Service Industries Journal
- Vol. 17 (4) , 564-579
Abstract
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.Keywords
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