Environmentally-friendly product development : methods and tools / Eberhard Abele, Reiner Anderl, Herbert Birkhofer, eds.

S. 293-313: References

1. Introduction -- 2. Case study vacuum cleaner: From vision to reality -- 3. The product life cycle -- 4. Environmental assessment -- 5. From the market to holistically optimised product concepts -- 6. From concept to application -- 7. Final summary

The book describes an integrated approach that assists designers to develop environmentally-friendly products, illustrating the methods and tools with case studies. Process and information modelling, life-cycle assessment and ecological product optimisation are surveyed in detail. Unique to Environmentally-Friendly Product Development is the introduction of the Eco Design Workbench - a computer based design environment that supports the designer during the product development process