Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes

Eco design is both a principle and an approach. It consists of integrating environmental protection criteria over a service or a product's lifecycle. Eco-design is used as a tool in the manufacturing and services sectors for improving the sustainability of products by integrating environmental aspects into the design stage, where most of the product impacts are determined. Many industries are now facing pressure from different directions to improve their environmental performance. This book covers the concept of sustainability, an overview of the National Footprint Accounts, a multi-day intensive work-through of analytical techniques used to produce the accounts, an investigation of some of the critiques and limitations of the accounts. 

Print ISBN: 9781682507568 | 155 $ | 2022 | Hardcover

Subject: Environmental Science

Editor: Juan Manuel

About the editor: Juan Manuel, PhD, is serving as professor in the Department of Economics and Management. His research areas of interest include industrial ecology, product ecology, ecological product quality, circular economy and sustainability. He has written several articles on the topics of industrial ecology, product ecology, ecological product quality, circular economy and sustainability.