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Repair Café Porto: A Situational Analysis

Repair Café Porto: A Situational Analysis

Ana Coelho
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781522598855|ISBN10: 1522598855|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522598862|EISBN13: 9781522598879
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9885-5.ch014
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Coelho, Ana. "Repair Café Porto: A Situational Analysis." Mapping, Managing, and Crafting Sustainable Business Strategies for the Circular Economy, edited by Susana Serrano Rodrigues, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 302-315. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9885-5.ch014

APA

Coelho, A. (2020). Repair Café Porto: A Situational Analysis. In S. Rodrigues, P. Almeida, & N. Almeida (Eds.), Mapping, Managing, and Crafting Sustainable Business Strategies for the Circular Economy (pp. 302-315). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9885-5.ch014

Chicago

Coelho, Ana. "Repair Café Porto: A Situational Analysis." In Mapping, Managing, and Crafting Sustainable Business Strategies for the Circular Economy, edited by Susana Serrano Rodrigues, Paulo Jorge Almeida, and Nuno Miguel Castaheira Almeida, 302-315. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9885-5.ch014

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Abstract

This chapter analyses Repair Café Porto (RCP) through the lens of a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) method. It is based on the event-RCP held for three hours on a Saturday every two months from June 17, 2017 until April 28, 2018 and on a new economics approach of circular economy. It is intended to examine the potentialities and challenges of RCP. Repair Cafés are ‘workshops' for people to bring consumer products in need of repair where they with volunteer fixers learn repair, maintain their broken or faulty products, or try product modification. It is an RCP-requirement that visitors who bring products participate in repairs undertaken. Regular repair stations include bike, electrical and electronic, clothing, and jewellery. The SWOT method is used to assess internal and external aspects of RCP. It is concluded that the success of RCP is dependent on financial support, the maturity of repair notion, and the alteration of consumers and producers' attitudes to see waste as a resource and to extend the life of a product.

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