RT Journal Article
T1 Dealing with barriers to repair from the repairers’ perspective
A1 López-Bermúdez, Francisco
A1 Vence Deza, Xavier
K1 Repair
K1 Repairability
K1 Circular economy
K1 Obsolescence
K1 Barriers to repair
AB Repair is a key component of the circular economy paradigm and holds great environmental potential. Our current linear economies, which rely on constantly expanding markets, are not conceived to be restorative and hence create structural barriers to repair. Through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires we explore the commercial repairers’ perspective on barriers to repair, as well as their agency and the strategies they employ to overcome those barriers. Our research has shown that repairers tend to bypass barriers by means of specific repair techniques and cooperation networks
PB Aalborg University
SN 2794-9540
YR 2025
FD 2025-06-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44555
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44555
LA eng
NO López-Bermúdez, F., & Vence, X. (2025). Dealing with barriers to repair from the repairers’ perspective. Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025), (6). https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10415
NO This research has been supported by the ICEDE research group, to which the authors belong, Galician Competitive Research Group ED431C 2022/15 financed by Xunta de Galicia and project “REVALEC” REFERENCE PID2022-141162NB-I00  Financed  by    MCIN/ AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / EFRD, EU
DS Minerva
RD 22 may 2026