Special issue; From green design to eco-innovation and sustainable product design

International Journal of Design Engineering 2(3) 2009

• The limits of current evaluation methods in a context of sustainable design: prudence as a new framework
• An integrated analysis of customer value and environmental burden for environmentally conscious design
• Total performance design of product life cycle considering future uncertainties
• How to identify the most promising areas of environmental improvement at the early stages of the design process?
• Study of an exergy method for environmental evaluation assessment in the early design phase using comparative LCA and exergy approach
• A liaison model for disassembly-reassembly product ecodesign