A special issue of International Journal of Design Engineering
In recent times, we have seen an increase in raw material costs, opposition to incinerators and discharges, stricter environmental legislation, increased urgency to reduce climate change, increased sensitivity to environmental issues from consumers, etc., all of which place a strong demand on environmentally-friendly product design.
Many research works have been developed worldwide in order to integrate environmental issues into the design process. Resulting from these developments, various tools and methods have been emerging, including design for disassembly, design for recycling, selection of materials for green design, quantitative life cycle related methods such as life cycle assessment, qualitative life cycle related methods such as material energy toxicity matrix and MIPS, environmental quality function deployment such as e-QFD and eco-QFD, and environmental effects analysis (EEA).
The evolution of product design is very positive and the tools and methods have become more complete and robust. However, the existing tools and methods have their weaknesses: they are product-centred rather than service-centred, multiple life cycles are rarely considered, they are generally oriented towards improvement rather than innovation, sustainability criteria are hardly taken into account, and so on.
To overcome these weaknesses, it is necessary to develop a new category of design methods. Many researchers have already started the work concerning more "service-centred", "sustainable" or "eco-innovative" design processes. The research has revealed new knowledge in models, heuristics, methods, tools, learning processes, software, etc.
The purpose of this Call is to get up-to-date knowledge and the most recent developments in this subject and to spread them within our community.
Topics of relevance include, but are not limited to:
- Design for environment, eco-design or eco-efficiency methods and tools
- Management and strategy of the end of life of products
- Eco-innovation process and factor X
- Environmental methods like e-QFD, eco-TRIZ or EEA
- Dematerialisation and product-service system (PSS) approach
- Design for sustainability
- Design for remanufacturing and reuse
- Life cycle design
- New life cycle analysis methods
- Industrial eco-system, eco-supply-chain and eco-packaging
- 3D concurrent engineering
- Cradle to cradle approach
Submission of papers: 1 July, 2008
First decision notification: 1 October 2008
Submission of revised papers: 15 December, 2008
Final decision notification: 15 February, 2009
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