Volume 3 | Issue 2 | Fall 2007

About the Author

Dr. Arnold Tukker received his PhD in 1998 from Tilburg University and has worked for the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment. He is currently the manager of Sustainable Innovation Programs at not for profit public research organisation TNO, the Dutch research and public policy consultancy. He has published widely in the fields of life cycle analysis, industrial ecology, and sustainable innovation and has edited or authored several books including Frames in the Toxicity Controversy: Risk Assessment and Policy Analysis Related to the Dutch Chlorine Debate and the Swedish PVC Debate (Springer, 1999); Partnership and Leadership: Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future (with Theo de Bruijn; Springer, 2002); and New Business for Old Europe: Product-Service Development, Competitiveness, and Sustainability (with Ursula Tischner; Greenleaf, 2006). He is currently the director of SCORE! (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange), a European Union-funded project to develop a research and policy network on sustainable consumption.