Design for Environmental Sustainability Book

Pt. I Frame of Reference 1

1 Sustainability and Discontinuity 3

2 Products, Contexts and Capacities 15

3 A Social Learning Process 29

Pt. 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

Pt. 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

Pt. 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 Impacts 273

References 283

Index 297