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Product Design for the Environment - A Life Cycle Approach (Hardcover)
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Product Design for the Environment - A Life Cycle Approach (Hardcover)
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In recent years the increased awareness of environmental issues has
led to the development of new approaches to product design, known
as Design for Environment and Life Cycle Design. Although still
considered emerging and in some cases radical, their principles
will become, by necessity, the wave of the future in design. A
thorough exploration of the subject, Product Design for the
Environment: A Life Cycle Approach presents key concepts, basic
design frameworks and techniques, and practical applications. It
identifies effective methods and tools for product design,
stressing the environmental performance of products over their
whole life cycle. After introducing the concepts of Sustainable
Development, the authors discuss Industrial Ecology and Design for
Environment as defined in the literature. They present the life
cycle theory and approach, explore how to apply it, and define its
main techniques. The book then covers the main premises of product
design and development, delineating how to effectively integrate
environmental aspects in modern product design. The authors pay
particular attention to environmental strategies that can aid the
achievement of the requisites of eco-efficiency in various phases
of the product life cycle. They go on to explore how these
strategies are closely related to the functional performance of the
product and its components, and, therefore, to some aspects of
conventional engineering design. The book also introduces phenomena
of performance deterioration, together with principles of design
for component durability, and methods for the assessment of
residual life. Finally, the book defines entirely new methods and
tools in relation to strategic issues of Life Cycle Design. Each
theme provides an introduction to the problems and original
proposals based on the authors' experience. The authors then
discuss the implementation of these new concepts in design
practice, differentiating between levels of intervention and
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