Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development

Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development
ISBN-10
0071605576
ISBN-13
9780071605571
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
2009-07-31
Publisher
McGraw Hill Professional
Author
Joseph Fiksel

Description

An in-depth roadmap to sustainable product development Drawing on the experiences of dozens of major corporations, Design for Environment, Second Edition, offers a business rationale for developing sustainable products and processes, as well as a comprehensive toolkit for practicing DFE in the context of product life-cycle management. Learn how environmental innovation creates business value, and helps companies to meet global energy and environmental challenges. Discover how to: Practice integrated product development and concurrent engineering Select appropriate metrics to represent product life-cycle performance Maintain and apply a portfolio of systematic Design for Environment strategies Use analysis methods to evaluate design performance and trade-offs Apply systems thinking to reduce the supply chain environmental footprint The book is enhanced by in-depth case studies of DFE applications by industry leaders.

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