Circular economy framework for sustainable product design strategies

Product Family Approach in E-Waste Management: A Conceptual Framework for Circular Economy

As the need for a more circular model is being increasingly pronounced, a fundamental change in the end-of-life (EoL) management of electrical and electronic products (e-products) is required in order to prevent the resource losses and to promote the reuse of products and components with remaining functionality. However, the diversity of product types, design features, and material compositions...

Moving from a Product-Based Economy to a Service-Based Economy for a More Sustainable Future

Design for sustainable behaviour: strategies and perceptions

This paper presents selected findings of doctoral research exploring how design could be used to influence user behaviour towards more sustainable practices. It describes three strategies for changing user behaviour through design drawn from literature and outlines the methodology and findings of a case study exploring the application of these strategies in sustainable design. Drawing on the pe...

Bridging Economy and Ecology: a Circular Economy Approach to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

The linkage between economic and environmental issues in an inter-organizational context receives significant attention from scholars and industrial practice. Emerging concepts like Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM), extending supply chain management with ecological aspects like resource optimization and recycling, might be the first step towards an ecologically responsible economy. But...

Computational Strategies for Managing Circular Dependencies in Integrated Product Design Models

This thesis presents a concept for controlling the exchange of data in computational networks forming integrated design models. Its primary focus is on managing circular dependencies which may lead to an infinite propagation of changes of design parameter values through the system without converging to a final solution. The proposed technique applies graph algorithms to analyze the topology of ...