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Design for Environmental Sustainability provides a comprehensive framework and a <br />
practical tool to support the design process. The book offers an organic vision <br />
of methodologies, tools and strategies for the integration of environmental <br />
requirements into product development. Possible strategies and design guidelines <br />
are highlighted, accompanied by a large selection of high-quality <br />
environmentally-aware product design case studies.<br />
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Divided into four parts, the first part covers environmental sustainability and <br />
presents the general guidelines that can be followed to reach it. The second <br />
part examines the Life Cycle Design approach and the strategies to minimise <br />
consumption of resources, select low environmental impact resources, optimise <br />
product life span, extend the life of materials, and design for disassembly. The <br />
third part presents methods and tools to evaluate the environmental impact of <br />
products (e.g., Life Cycle Assessment) and other support tools for the <br />
integration of environmental requirements into real design processes. The fourth <br />
and final part describes the historical evolution of sustainability, both in <br />
design practice and research.<br />
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Table Of Contents<br />
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Part I Frame of Reference 1<br />
1 Sustainability and Discontinuity 3<br />
2 Products, Contexts and Capacities 15<br />
3 A Social Learning Process 29<br />
Part II Design for Environmental Sustainability 51<br />
4 Life Cycle Design 53<br />
5 Minimising Resource Consumption 73<br />
6 Selecting Low Impact Resources and Processes 105<br />
7 Product Lifetime Optimisation 131<br />
8 Extending the Lifespan of Materials 159<br />
9 Facilitating Disassembly 181<br />
10 System Design for Eco-efficiency 199<br />
Part III Methods and Support Tools for Environmental Sustainability Analysis and <br />
Design 213<br />
11 Environmental Complexity and Designing Activity 215<br />
12 Estimating the Environmental Impact of Products: Life Cycle Assessment 219<br />
13 Environmentally Sustainable Design-orienting Tools 243<br />
Part IV The Roadmap and the State of the Art 251<br />
14 Evolution of Sustainability in Design Research and Practice 253<br />
Appendix A Design Criteria and Guidelines 263<br />
Appendix B Diagrams of Environmental 273<br />
References 283<br />
Index 297<br />
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* ISBN: 1848001622<br />
* ISBN-13: 9781848001626<br />
* Format: Hardcover, 320pp<br />
* Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC<br />
* Pub. Date: June 28, 2008<br />
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