Drivers of Sustainability in Design
Legislation and Perceptions of Consumers and Buyers
Abstract
This chapter covers the issues driving the designer to adopt a more sustainable approach to engineering design. This also covers in brief the thrust and effectiveness of current legislation in the key developed and emerging economies, before critically considering a number of tools currently used for measuring sustainability in industry and products, and closes with an analysis of nonlegislative drivers working toward the triple bottom line.
Keywords
Legislation
Effectiveness
Ecodesign Directive
Measurement and guidance tools
EIA
Carbon footprint
Granta
A number of studies conducted in the first decade of the twentieth century concluded that current ...
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