Ecosystem Services in Environmental Impact Assessment: Repercussions on Eco-Design
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2022) | Viewed by 7396
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Interests: sustainable design; eco-design; product innovation; TRIZ; FMEA
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Dear Colleagues,
During the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), assessing the environmental impact assessment of a product or a design solution by considering the ecosystem services is far from obvious. In fact, despite the various contributions in the literature in recent years, we are still far from a reliable and shared standard of evaluation of Ecosystem Services. For this reason, those who carry out an eco-design activity cannot be aware of the improvements they have obtained on ecosystem services, or generate truly environmental conscious design solutions.
Through this Special Issue, we aim to collect criteria/methods/approaches/tools to quantitatively/quantitatively assess the impacts on the ecosystem services of a (eco)design solution. In particular, the following aspects may be investigated:
- Assessing the environmental impacts of design solutions in a hypothetical scenario, where they are far from being realized into products with a defined life cycle, differently to standard life cycle assessment (LCA);
- Assessing the repercussions on social sustainability of a design solutions: what social aspects and what measurement criteria?
- Defining the reliable valuation perimeter of ecosystem services for different design solutions, in order to reduce the efforts during evaluation;
- Comparing the environmental impacts of ecosystem services with social and economic impacts for a design solution.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Christian Spreafico
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- environmental impact assessment
- social sustainability
- eco-design methods
- sustainable product policy
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