EcoDesign Accelerating Social Transformation

This book is the first volume of books highlight cutting-edge EcoDesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in EcoDesign. Featuring selected papers presented at EcoDesign2025: The 14th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, it also includes diverse, interdisciplinary approaches to foster EcoDesign research and activities. In the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it addresses the need for the manufacturing industry to design innovations for social transformation, taking into account technological developments, legislation, and consumer lifestyles. Further, the book discusses the concept of circular economy, which originated in Europe and aims to increase resource efficiency by shifting away from the linear economy.

This Volume I contains topics related to Environmentally Conscious Design of Products and Services, Life Cycle Management, Sustainable Manufacturing, EoL(End-of Life) Management and Process Technologies, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Life Cycle Evaluation, and Sustainability Indices.  The readers of this volume can catch up the latest achievement about these research fields.