Sustainable Engineering Design and Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 3021
Special Issue Editors
2. Industrial and Materials Science, Division of Product Development, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: perceived quality; data-informed design; design research
Interests: sustainable materials; sustainable business processes; perceived quality; haptics/touch; quantification of subjective material requirements
Interests: sustainable integrated product development; renewable materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue of the journal Sustainability, entitled “Sustainable Engineering Design and Sustainable Development”.
Engineering design (ED) is the process of solving technical problems within requirements and constraints to create new artifacts. The concept of sustainability needs to be understood from a variety of perspectives, from the scarcity of natural resources to gendered design. Today, engineering design practices are still largely built around linear processes, which is detrimental to sustainable development and needs to be shifted towards a more circular thinking. The variety of discourses regarding sustainable development in academia are closely related to how different practices and fields need their respective perspectives, concepts, and models of what is sustainable to them.
However, regardless of the application, an effective sustainability design must consider economic, environmental, and social goals over long-term time horizons. This requires communication across all possible stakeholder groups.
The aim of this Special Issue is to compile multidisciplinary research to facilitate theoretical and practical implications of sustainable engineering design.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Design for sustainable materials;
- Consumer perspective on sustainability;
- Circularity and sustainability;
- Integration of sustainability into our business processes—approaches and certificates;
- Sustainability is more than ecology.
Dr. Kostas Stylidis
Prof. Dr. Bastian Quattelbaum
Dr. Simon Schütte
Dr. Fredrik Henriksson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- materials
- perceived sustainability
- design
- circularity
- business processes
- ethics
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