Design for environmental sustainability /
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| Language: | English Italian |
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London :
Springer,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Sustainability and discontinuity
- Products, contexts and capacities
- A social learning process
- Life cycle design
- Minimising resource consumption
- Selecting low impact resources and processes
- Product lifetime optimisation
- Extending the lifespan of materials
- Facilitating disassembly
- System design for eco-efficiency
- Environmental complexity and designing activity
- Estimating the environmental impact of products : life cycle assessment
- Environmentally sustainable design-orienting tools
- Evolution of sustainability in design research and practice
- Appendices.