About the Book
This 2-volume book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, encompassing product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives. Featuring selected papers from EcoDesign 2023: 13th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, it offers interdisciplinary approaches to foster sustainable innovations. Within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it underscores the necessity for the manufacturing sector to innovate for sustainable value creation, taking into account technological advancements, regulatory requirements, and consumer behavior. Additionally, it explores the concept of the circular economy, which originated in Europe and seeks to enhance resource efficiency by transitioning from a linear to a circular economic model. This book aims to unite professionals across the globe who are dedicated to advancing the field of ecodesign, and facilitating the exchange of knowledge across various disciplines and communities.
The second volume highlights sustainable technology, social perspectives in ecodesign, and business strategy. The chapters cover digital and AI technologies for sustainability, sustainable social infrastructure, smart manufacturing, sustainable consumption and production, policy, legislation and social activities, finance and investment for sustainability, green business, and engineering economics. Readers will discover diverse perspectives from expert contributors who delve into critical issues like climate change education in primary schools in Vietnam; food security in Japan; repurposing lithium-ion batteries; carbon neutrality through sensor-based smart city services; life cycle assessments of automotive parts; human health risks from chemicals in export products; and developing high-resolution spatial global biodiversity damage factors. This collection invites readers to think through critical questions about resource efficiency and the shift from a linear to a circular economy. Researchers in the fields of sustainable design, environmental engineering, policy-making, and business strategy will find this book invaluable.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE, VIETNAM.- Chapter 2. Design for long-term reuse in sustainable design education.- Chapter 3. Cultural Practice for Sustainability: Narratives from Zero Waste Life Series by NHK World.- Chapter 4. Design of rice koji fermentation kit to promote environmental education and microorganism awareness in Japan.- Chapter 5. Challenges in engineering education for sustainable product development – Insights from practice.- Chapter 6. Changes in High School Students' Interest in Environmental and Social Issues as an Effect of Futurability Education.- Chapter 7. Unintended Consequences in the Transition to FMCG reuse: “I do not think I ever will not” use Single-Use Products.- Chapter 8. Food and nutrition security toward sustainable food chain in Japan.- Chapter 9. Repurposing Lithium-ion batteries for the Household Context: An Industry Investigation in Norway.- Chapter 10. A Study on Extracting Necessary Parameters for Expanding the Utilization Rate of Used Automobile Parts Based on Supply-Demand Analysis.- Chapter 11. Is it possible to reduce the number of today’s thermoplastics? – An investigation of the Swedish plastic industry.- Chapter 12. From Frugal Solutions to Reverse Innovation: A Knowledge-Based Perspective.- Chapter 13. Quantifying the carbon saving potential of two sensor-based smart city services regarding street lighting and waste management.- Chapter 14. Airflow Heat and CO2 Balance in Detached Houses: A Simulation Based on Insulation Leakage, Ventilation, and Occupancy of an Indoor Environment.- Chapter 15. Evaluation of heatstroke risk, environmental impact, and cost of hydrocarbon refrigerant (GF-08) air conditioning use in residential homes integrated with combined photovoltaic power generation and battery storage.- Chapter 16. Trade-off analysis between CO2 reduction and waste increase associated with solar photovoltaic installations.- Chapter 17. Life Cycle Assessment on Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant - a Study on First Nuclear Power Plant.- Chapter 18. Environmental impact assessment of battery swapping service for electric vehicles.- Chapter 19. Facility location problem of stationary and mobile hydrogen refueling stations considering transport risk for hydrogen.- Chapter 20. Model-based analysis of the dynamic capacity ramp-up of closed-loop supply chains for lithium-ion batteries in Japan and Germany.- Chapter 21. Evaluation of the "Shift" and Improve" Strategies in Achieving Sustainable Urban Transportation.- Chapter 22. Environmental and economic assessment towards the utilization of CCUS technology in waste incineration facilities.- Chapter 23. Automation approach for Life Cycle Assessment integrated data and mapping quality assessment.- Chapter 24. Environmental evaluation of remanufactured automotive parts – Comparative LCAs of five product groups.- Chapter 25. Implementing Simplified Life Cycle Assessments in Product Development Processes of Electrical and Electronics Equipment.- Chapter 26. Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Body Wash Product in Life Cycle: Korea and Europe.- Chapter 27. An environmental process design for H2S removal based on LCA thinking using CFD modeling.- Chapter 28. Life Cycle Assessment and Circularity Indicator application in Environmental Assessment of End-of-Life treatment technologies – Case study: EoL steel wire rope.- Chapter 29. Assessment of the human health risk derived from chemicals in export products from Japan.- Chapter 30. Quantifying Human Rights in Global Supply Chain: Socially-extended Input-Output Analysis (MRSEIO).- Chapter 31. Quantifying Human Rights in Global Supply Chain: Visualizing the UK's Electricity Sector.- Chapter 32. Development of office indicators for sustainable and employee-centric workplace.- Chapter 33. Towards a sustainable decision framework with harmonized metrics for Circularity and Life Cycle Assessment in manufacturing.- Chapter 34. Organization of Integrated Strategic Elements in Urban and Regional Management using SDG Local Indicators and Fiscal Expenditure Data.- Chapter 35. The development of land use-based high-resolution spatial global biodiversity damage factors in LCIA.
About the Author :
Dr. Fukushige is a professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University. After obtaining his doctor's degree in precision machinery engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2006, he began work at Osaka University as an assistant professor. Since 2014, he served as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University before moving to Waseda University in 2020. His current research interests include product life cycle design and management, simulation of circular economy, environmentally conscious product and service design, and circular business design.
Tomomi Nonaka specializes in production systems engineering and service engineering. She obtained a Ph.D in Systems Engineering at Keio University, Japan. She graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University, and entered the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University as a first-year student, completing the master's and doctoral programs. After serving as a specially appointed assistant professor at the Graduate School of Systems Informatics, Kobe University, an assistant professor at the Department of Management Systems Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, and an associate professor at the College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University, she became a professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University. In recent years, she has been engaged in research on sustainable business and social system design. Main publications: "An Employee Satisfaction Model Considering Customer Satisfaction: Analysis of Differences by Job Type in a Restaurant" (Transactions of the Japan Society for Management Engineering, 2016), "An EOQ Model for Reuse and Recycling. Considering the Balance of Supply and Demand", International Journal of Automation Technology (2015), etc.
Hideki Kobayashi is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. Dean, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2024. He holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Hokkaido University and a Ph.D. in Design Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He was engaged as a senior manager in the field of environmental and sustainable technologies at Toshiba Research and Development Center before assuming his current position. Chairman of the Carbon Neutrality Research Association. Co-director of the Italian Design Summer School (IDSS) at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are sustainable systems design and management, sustainable consumption and production, sustainable manufacturing, and sustainable transportation systems.
Chiharu Tokoro is engaged in research on "Elucidation of mechanism and control of separation for toxic elements at the solid-liquid interface", "Development of novel separation materials and processes for useful elements", "Development of smart solid / solid separation technology and process for resources circulation", "Optimization of resources recycling process based on life cycle thinking" as well.
Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2003 (Doctoral degree of Engineering). Worked for Waseda University as an Assistant from 2004, Lecturer from 2007 and Associate Professor from 2009. Now, Professor of Faculty of Science and Engineering from 2015. Director of Office for Promotion of Equality and Diversity from 2018 to 2022. Project Professor of Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo from 2016. Professor of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo from 2021. Council member of Science Council of Japan, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Environment.
Eiji Yamasue is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He completed his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. His research interests include industrial ecology, energy and resources, etc. He has authored several books and has published 120 papers with over 1800 citations to his credit.
