Design for environmental sustainability /
Carlo Vezzoli, Ezio Manzini.
- [Berlin] ; London : Springer, 2010.
- xviii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally published, Bologna : Zanichelli, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sustainability and discontinuity -- Products, contexts and capacities -- A social learning process -- Life cycle design -- Minimising resource consumption -- Selecting low impact resources and processes -- Product lifetime optimisation -- Extending the lifespan of materials -- Facilitating disassembly -- System design for eco-efficiency -- Environmental complexity and designing activity -- Estimating the environmental impact of products : life cycle assessment -- Environmentally sustainable design-orienting tools -- Evolution of sustainability in design research and practice -- Appendices.