The ecocraze, a case study: Negotiating a greener product design landscape

Design Principles and Practices

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 41-62

  Lockrey, Simon ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design for environment; Design for sustainability; LCA; Life cycle assessment; Whole systems design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859194621     PISSN: 18331874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v05i04/38131     Document Type: Article

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