Systems thinking for designing sustainable product service systems: A case study using a system dynamics approach

Design Principles and Practices

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 259-273

  Afshar, Maryam ^a   Wang, David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical quantitative approach; Integrated systemic tool; Modeling and simulation; Product service systems; Quantifying environmental impacts; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891351491     PISSN: 18331874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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