Design for environmental sustainability
By: Carlo Vezzoli, Ezio Manzini
Contributors: Manzini, Ezio
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Berlin]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781848001626; 9781848001633
Work titles: Design per la sostenibilita ambientale
Notes: Originally published, Bologna : Zanichelli, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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