TOPICS

Product Life Cycle Design and Management

  • Environmentally Conscious Design of Products and Services

E.g., Life cycle design, Design for environment(DfE), Design for disassembly, Life cycle design, Design for remanufacturing, Design from waste, Zero waste design, Design for behavior, Product service system (PSS)
  • Life Cycle Management

E.g., Maintenance, Smart life cycle management, Life cycle simulation (LCS), Product lifetime, Machine/System health monitoring, Reliability analysis, Waste valorization
  • Sustainable Manufacturing

E.g., Industrial symbiosis, Industrial ecology, Zero-carbon factory, Cleaner production, Lean manufacturing, Smart materials, Additive manufacturing
  • EoL Management and Process Technologies

E.g., Recycling, Disassembly, Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair, Smart materials, Reuse, Urban mining, Critical raw materials (CRMs), Material recovery
  • EoL Management and Process Technologies

E.g., Closed-loop supply chain management, Reverse logistics, Green Logistics

Sustainability Assessment for EcoDesign

  • Life Cycle Evaluation

E.g., Life cycle assessment (LCA), Carbon footprint, Material footprint, Water footprint, Material flow analysis (MFA), Material flow cost accounting (MFCA), Economic impacts of environmental regulations, Input-output analysis, Environmental product declaration (EPD), Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA)
  • Sustainability Indices

E.g., Resource efficiency, Energy efficiency, Material criticality, Total material requirement (TMR), Social indicators of emergent technologies, Social acceptance of technology, Social shaping of technology (SST)

Sustainable Technology

  • Digital and AI Technologies for Sustainability

E.g., Digitalization in developing country, Cyber physical system (CPS), Telework, Internet of things (IoT), Digital twin, Digital transformation (DX), Automation technology, Business innovation, Big data analytics, AI for optimizing energy consumption, AI for sustainable waste management, Green transformation (GX)
  • Sustainable Social Infrastructure

E.g., Carbon neutral (CN), Renewable energy, Energy security, Smart grid, Green transportation system, Autonomous car, Sustainable constructions, Water security, Food security, Smart city, Resilience, Mining industry

Social Perspectives in EcoDesign

  • Sustainable Consumption and Production

E.g., Sharing economy, Behavioral science, Environmental consumer behavior, Social acceptance, Green marketing, Sufficiency, Locally oriented manufacturing, Behavior change in pandemic
  • Policy, Legislation and Social Activities

E.g., Circular economy (CE), Digital product passport (DPP), Extended producer responsibility (EPR), Eco-label, International standard, Education for sustainable development (ESD), Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Ethical legal and social aspects research, Environmental justice, Environmental literacy
  • Finance and Investment for Sustainability

E.g., Green procurement, Task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD), Environmental social and governance (ESG)