Product Design for the Environment

A Life Cycle Approach

Fabio Giudice, Guido La Rosa, Antonino Risitano

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2006
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781420001044
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

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 t

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author Biographies
• 1. From Sustainable Development to Design for Environment
• 2. Life Cycle Approach and the Product–System Concept and Modeling
• 3. Life Cycle Design and Management
• 4. Life Cycle Assessment
• 5. Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• 6. Integrated Economic–Environmental Analysis of the Life Cycle
• 7. Product Design and Development Process
• 8. Integration of Environmental Aspects in Product Design
• 9. Life Cycle Environmental Strategies and Considerations for Product Design
• 10. Engineering Methods for Product Duration Design and Evaluation
• 11. Product Constructional System Definition Based on Optimal Life Cycle Strategies
• 12. Environmental Characterization of Materials and Optimal Choice
• 13. Design for Disassembly and Distribution of Disassembly Depth
• 14. Optimal Disassembly Planning
• 15. Product Recovery Cycles Planning and Cost–Benefit Analysis of Recovery
• 16. Methodological Framework and Analysis Models for Simulation of the Product Life Cycle
• Index