Design for environmental sustainability

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vezzoli, Carlo
Other Authors: Manzini, Ezio
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: London : Springer, [2008]
Subjects:
Sustainable design.
Industrial design > Environmental aspects.
Industrial design.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. FRAME OD REFERENCE: 1. Sustainibility and discontinuity: Introduction
  • Sustainable development and environmental sustainability
  • Preconditions of environmental sustainability
  • Ten times more eco-efficient production system
  • Bio- and technocycles
  • Biocomapatibility and Biocycles
  • Non-interference and technocycles
  • Industrial ecology and dematerialisation
  • Transition scenarios
  • Strategy of efficiency: a radical way of doing things better
  • Strategy of sufficiency: a radical way of doing less
  • Compound strategy
  • 2. Products, Contexts and capacities: Introduction
  • Product-based well-being
  • The World as a Supermarket
  • The paradox of "Light Products"
  • Lightness as a Non-sufficient but necessary condition
  • Access-based well-being
  • The World is like a theme park
  • The material Ballast of information
  • Service orientation as a Pre-requisite of sustainability
  • Crisis of local common goods
  • The sprawl of remedial goods
  • Context-based well being
  • Well-being as a development of capacity
  • Unsustainable comfort
  • Disabling and enabling solutions
  • The forces behind changes
  • 3. A social learning process: Introduction
  • The production-consumption system
  • Consumers/Users and Co-producers
  • The (potential) strength of consumers
  • Critical consumption
  • People as Co-producers
  • Active minorities and auspicious cases
  • Enterprises and new forms of partnership
  • Producing value by reducing consumption
  • New methods of running business
  • Eco-efficient businesses
  • From product to system eco-efficiency
  • Looking for new solutions
  • Starting from the results
  • Business and social innovation
  • The public sector (and the rules of the game)
  • Facilitate the Social process of learning
  • Amplifying the feedback
  • Supporting the offer of alternative solutions
  • Promoting adequate communication
  • Designating adequate economical costs to natural resources
  • Extended producer responsibility
  • Designers and Co-designers
  • Limits and opportunities of the designer's role
  • Operative fields for design for sustainability.
  • Pt. 2. DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: 4. Life cycle design: Introduction
  • Environmental requirements of industrial products
  • Product life cycle
  • Introduction
  • Pre-production
  • Production
  • DSollribution
  • Use
  • Disposal
  • Additional life cycles
  • Functional approach
  • Life cycle design
  • Life cycle design objectives
  • Implications of life cycle design
  • The design approach
  • Strategies of life cycle design
  • Interrelations between the strategies
  • Priorities among the strategies
  • Design for disposal
  • Environmental priorities and disposal costs
  • Current state of Life cycle design
  • 5. Minimising resource consumption: Introduction
  • Minimising material consumption
  • Minimising material content
  • Minimising scraps and discards
  • Minimising packaging
  • Minimising materials consumption during usage
  • Minimising materials consumption during the product development phase
  • Minimising energy consumption
  • 6. Selecting low impact resources and processes: Introduction
  • Selection of Non-toxic and harmless resources
  • Select Non-toxic and harmless materials
  • Selecting Non-toxic and harmless energy resources
  • Renewable and Bio-compatible resources
  • Select renewable and Bio-compatible materials
  • Select renewable and Bio-compatible energy resources
  • 7. Product lifetime optimisation: Useful lifetime
  • Why design long-lasting goods?
  • Why design intensely utilised goods?
  • Social and economic dimensions of changes
  • Optimisation services
  • Guidelines
  • Designing for appropriate lifespan
  • Designing for reliability
  • Facilitating upgrading and adaptability
  • Facilitating maintenance
  • Facilitating repairs
  • Facilitating re-use
  • Facilitating re-manufacturing
  • Intensifying use
  • 8. Extending the lifespan of materials: Introduction
  • Guidelines
  • Adopting the cascade approach
  • Selecting materials with the most efficient recycling technologies
  • Facilitating end-of-life collection and transportation
  • Identifying materials
  • Minimising the overall number of different imcompatible materials
  • Facilitating cleaning
  • Facilitating composting
  • Facilitating combustion
  • 9. Facilitating disassembly: Introduction
  • Guidelines
  • Reducing and facilitating operations of disassembly and separation
  • Engaging reversible joining systems
  • Engaging permanent joining systems that can be easily opened
  • Co-designing special technologies and features for crushing separation
  • Using materials that are easily separable after being crushed
  • Using additional parts that are easily separable after the crushing of materials
  • 10. System design for eco-efficiency: Economic restrictions in traditional supply and demand system
  • System innovation for new interactions between Socio-economic actors
  • The supply model of the product service system
  • Guidelines
  • Services providing added value to the product's life cycle
  • Services providing "Final results" for customers
  • Services providing "enabling platforms for customers"
  • Strategic system design for eco-efficiency.
  • Pt. 3. METHODS AND SUPPORT TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: 11. Environmental complexity and designing activity
  • Introduction
  • Methods and tools for design for environmental sustainability
  • 12. Estimating the environmental impact of products: Life cycle assessment
  • The environmental impact of our production-consumption system
  • Exhaustion of natural resources
  • Gloabal warming
  • Ozone layer depletion
  • Smog - Acidification
  • Eutrophication
  • Toxic air, Soil and Water pollution
  • Waste
  • Other Effects
  • Quantitative methods for estimating and analysing product environmental imapct: Life cycle assessment
  • Stages of LCA
  • LCA and design: importance and limitations
  • Power to choose: discriminant power versus scientific reliability
  • Incisive decisions: First stages of development versus LCA applicability
  • Developing LCA
  • 13. Environmentally sustainable design-orienting tools: Introduction
  • Tools developed for certain environmental goals
  • Limitations of tools that are developed for certain environmental goals
  • Tools for product LCD
  • Tools for design for Eco-efficiency.
  • THE ROADMAP AND THE STATE OF THE ART: 14. Evolution of sustainability in design research and practice: Introduction
  • Evolution of sustainability in design
  • Low impact resources selection
  • Product life cycle design
  • System design for Eco-efficiency
  • Design for social equity and cohesion
  • State of the art.

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