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