Research Trend of Green Design

Abstract:

Green design, which integrates environmental factors into product design and innovation as opposed to the traditional product development, has significant implications for management theory and practice. A preponderance of special issues on this topic have emerged for a decade, so there is need for reviewing existing literature to help researchers and practitioners in understanding integrated green design from a wider perspective. This research makes a novel contribution by synthesizing existing literature and develops a succinct classification of existing literature on green design into three categories: design for environment, design for disassembly and design for recycling. Finally, we analyze the evolution of green design over the past decade together with the avenues for future research. The impact of government behavior on the manufactures’ design decision and customers’ acceptance of green product is an interesting research trend. There is need for green design methodologies that integrate design of products and processes.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 572)
• Pages: 16-19
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.572.16
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Yi Meng Li, Yu Xiong
• Keywords: Design for Disassembly, Design for Environment, Design for Recycling, Green Design

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