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

Christof Ellger and Joachim Scheiner

The Service Industries Journal, 1997, vol. 17, issue 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.

Date: 1997
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